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• Explosions and street fighting grip Yemen capital (Reuters)
• Syrian forces shell town kill 41, lawyer says (Reuters)
• Blast hits hotel in Libya's rebel-held Benghazi (Reuters)
• Honduras readmitted to OAS after coup (Reuters)
• North Korea: One of the Happiest Places on Earth? (Time.com)
• Parliamentary watchdog blasts asylum 'amnesty' (AFP)
• 41 killed in deadly Yemen street battles (AP)
• Peruvian novelist pulls column (AP)
• House scraps vote on Libya resolution (Reuters)
• Australia wants Syrian president to stand trial (AP)
• Canada budget watchdog urges clearer fiscal targets (Reuters)
• Meowing senator touches off political row (Reuters)
• Japan's Unlikely Saviors: Elderly Willing to Toil in a Nuke No-Go Zone (Time.com)

Explosions and street fighting grip Yemen capital (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:36 PM PDT Reuters - Renewed fighting in Yemen's capital between a powerful tribal group and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces has killed at least 19 people this week and rocked Sanaa with explosions, officials said on Wednesday.

Syrian forces shell town kill 41, lawyer says (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:22 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces killed 41 civilians in an effort to crush pro-democracy protests, a human rights lawyer said on Wednesday, as opposition leaders met in Turkey to plot the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Blast hits hotel in Libya's rebel-held Benghazi (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 01:42 PM PDT Reuters - An explosion damaged a hotel used by rebels and foreigners in Libya's rebel-controlled eastern city of Benghazi Wednesday, wounding one person, police said.

Honduras readmitted to OAS after coup (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:44 PM PDT Reuters - Honduras was readmitted to the Organization of American states on Wednesday, repairing ties with the hemispheric group two years after President Manuel Zelaya was toppled in a widely condemned coup.

North Korea: One of the Happiest Places on Earth? (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:10 AM PDT Time.com - According to a global happiness index released in North Korea, the country and its allies are the most cheerful countries in the world. Naturally, the "American Empire" strikes Pyongyang as just plain sad

Parliamentary watchdog blasts asylum 'amnesty' (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:01 PM PDT AFP - The country's bid to clear its huge backlog of asylum claims has seen so many people allowed to stay it effectively amounts to an amnesty, a parliamentary investigation found Thursday.

41 killed in deadly Yemen street battles (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:08 PM PDT AP - Street battles between Yemeni government forces and armed tribesmen killed dozens of people Wednesday in this country teetering on the brink of civil war, forcing residents to cower in basements or brave gunfire to fetch bread and water.

Peruvian novelist pulls column (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:08 PM PDT AP - Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has angrily pulled his biweekly column from Peru's dominant newspaper on the eve of the presidential runoff election, calling El Comercio "a propaganda machine" for conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.

House scraps vote on Libya resolution (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:44 PM PDT Reuters - The House of Representatives on Wednesday called off a vote on a proposal directing President Barack Obama to remove U.S. armed forces from Libya, with majority Republicans saying they wanted more time to weigh their options on the war.

Australia wants Syrian president to stand trial (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT AP - Australia is lobbying for Syrian President Basher Assad to be tried by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity over his regime's violent suppression of protesters.

Canada budget watchdog urges clearer fiscal targets (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - Canada needs to put forward a more credible austerity package this year and next in order to prevent a structural budget deficit in the longer term, the country's budget watchdog said on Wednesday.

Meowing senator touches off political row (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:50 AM PDT Reuters - A meowing Australian senator touched off a political row in Canberra on Wednesday after his cat imitation directed at Finance Minister Penny Wong sparked accusations that the opposition behaved like sexists and goons, and were feral.

Japan's Unlikely Saviors: Elderly Willing to Toil in a Nuke No-Go Zone (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:10 AM PDT Time.com - A newly formed group called the Skilled Veterans Corps shows just how vital pensioners are to rebuilding a nation still reeling from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami

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