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• Yemen fighting intensifies, envoy Brennan in talks (Reuters)
• Japan PM survives with offer to quit once crisis overcome (Reuters)
• Syrian forces kill 13 in besieged town: activists (Reuters)
• Bahrain wary of protests before Formula One ruling (Reuters)
• Europe E.coli is toxic new strain, trade row grows (Reuters)
• More Pain for Spain: The Cucumber Crisis' Bad Timing (Time.com)
• MI6 cooks up confusion for terrorists (AFP)
• Libyan woman claiming rape deported from Qatar (AP)
• Mexico uncovers possible US soldiers' remains (AP)
• House to have two votes on Libya (Reuters)
• Australia criticized over child asylum seeker plan (AP)
• Postal workers prepare for rotating strike (Reuters)
• Noel the turtle proves amputees survive in wild (AFP)
• IAEA criticizes Japan's Tepco for underestimating tsunami threat (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Why Do Christian Groups in China Put Authorities on Red Alert? (Time.com)
• FIFA chief Blatter gets fourth four-year term despite corruption scandal (The Christian Science Monitor)

Yemen fighting intensifies, envoy Brennan in talks (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 03:06 PM PDT Reuters - Forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh battled with tribal fighters in Yemen's capital on Thursday in clashes that killed dozens as U.S. envoy John Brennan flew around the region to try to stop a looming civil war.

Japan PM survives with offer to quit once crisis overcome (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 01:03 PM PDT Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday survived a no-confidence vote by offering to resign once he has overcome the worst of the country's nuclear crisis, a last-minute deal with ruling party rebels who had threatened to oust him from office.

Syrian forces kill 13 in besieged town: activists (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:33 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces killed at least 13 civilians in the central town of Rastan Thursday, activists said, in the latest attempt to quell a revolt against the 11-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

Bahrain wary of protests before Formula One ruling (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 03:13 PM PDT Reuters - Bahrain, eager for Formula One organizers to reinstate a motor race postponed after popular protests erupted in February, acted to prevent any unrest on Thursday after lifting martial law earlier in the week.

Europe E.coli is toxic new strain, trade row grows (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 01:18 PM PDT Reuters - A highly infectious new strain of E.coli bacteria is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning in Germany, scientists said on Thursday, with cases in Europe and the United States raising the alarm worldwide.

More Pain for Spain: The Cucumber Crisis' Bad Timing (Time.com) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:30 PM PDT Time.com - The false allegations against two Spanish farms hits the country at an economic low point -- and reveals an E.U. bureaucracy struggling to cope with the legal and financial ramifications

MI6 cooks up confusion for terrorists (AFP) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:31 PM PDT AFP - Would-be terrorists searching the Internet for tips on how to build bombs were instead taught how to bake the perfect cupcake after an intervention by MI6, the Telegraph reported Friday.

Libyan woman claiming rape deported from Qatar (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 03:10 PM PDT AP - A Libyan woman who claimed she was gang-raped by Moammar Gadhafi's troops was deported from Qatar where she sought refuge, and is now in Benghazi, said a U.N. official on Thursday.

Mexico uncovers possible US soldiers' remains (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:17 PM PDT AP - Mexico's government says archaeologists have found 10 sets of skeletal remains that may belong to U.S. soldiers who died in 1846 during the Mexican-American war.

House to have two votes on Libya (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:44 PM PDT Reuters - The House of Representatives prepared to vote on Friday on dueling approaches to U.S. involvement in Libya, one directing President Barack Obama to pull U.S. forces out of NATO operations and a second that demands more information about U.S. strategy.

Australia criticized over child asylum seeker plan (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:21 PM PDT AP - Australia came under fire from human rights advocates Friday over its plan to send child asylum seekers to Malaysia without their parents under a refugee swap deal being negotiated with the Malaysian government.

Postal workers prepare for rotating strike (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:54 PM PDT Reuters - Postal workers will start limited rotating strikes around the country on Thursday night unless a last-minute contract deal can be reached with Canada Post, the employees' union said on Thursday.

Noel the turtle proves amputees survive in wild (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:28 PM PDT AFP - Grave fears were held for "Noel" when she was released back into the wild after having a flipper amputated.

IAEA criticizes Japan's Tepco for underestimating tsunami threat (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:11 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Japan’s nuclear power industry is under pressure to improve safety after international inspectors criticized the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant operators.

Why Do Christian Groups in China Put Authorities on Red Alert? (Time.com) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:30 PM PDT Time.com - The Shouwang Church and other Protestant Christian groups have a potentially powerful mix of Calvinist ideology, social activism and influence among China's educated elite -- even members of the ruling Communist party

FIFA chief Blatter gets fourth four-year term despite corruption scandal (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 09:36 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Swiss president of FIFA, the organization that governs soccer around the globe, won an uncontested fourth consecutive term Wednesday, despite FIFA being enmeshed in the worst scandal since the organization was founded over a century ago.

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