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• Yemen's Saleh injured in shelling, seven killed (Reuters)
• Mladic wary then defiant in dramatic Hague debut (Reuters)
• Germany steps up hunt for deadly E.coli source (Reuters)
• Qatar deports Libyan woman who said she was raped (Reuters)
• Syria intensifies assault on anti-Assad protesters (Reuters)
• Seeking Calm, Bahrain's Government Lifts Martial Law (Time.com)
• Defiant Mladic calls genocide charges 'obnoxious' (AP)
• Rocket wounds Yemen president, escalating fight (AP)
• Haitian migrants leave DomRep with cash incentive (AP)
• Lawyer: 12 Zimbabwe cop-death suspects tortured (AP)
• Liu won't run in Europe before worlds - coach (AFP)
• Government unveils plan for jobs, balanced budget (Reuters)
• Ten-tonne polar bear "dying" slow death in Sydney (Reuters)
• Why Japan's Prime Minister Kan survived ouster bid (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Syria: Inside Bashar Assad's Dungeons (Time.com)
• South Africa moves ahead with bill to limit freedom of information (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Thirty Years of HIV (OneWorld.net)

Yemen's Saleh injured in shelling, seven killed (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:35 PM PDT Reuters - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed an 'outlaw gang' among his tribal enemies for a shelling attack on a mosque in the presidential compound that slightly injured him and several aides and killed seven people.

Mladic wary then defiant in dramatic Hague debut (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:04 PM PDT Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic faced the U.N. war crimes tribunal on Friday as a defiant general who never lost a battle, denying the charges against him as "obnoxious" and "monstrous."

Germany steps up hunt for deadly E.coli source (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:57 AM PDT Reuters - Racing to curb the spread of a killer food bug, Germany set up a task force on Friday to hunt down the source of a highly toxic strain of E.coli that has killed 19 people and sounded alarms around the world.

Qatar deports Libyan woman who said she was raped (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:08 PM PDT Reuters - Qatar deported a Libyan woman who claimed that she had been gang raped by pro-government militiamen, after spending nearly a month in the Gulf Arab country, a United Nations refugee group said on Friday.

Syria intensifies assault on anti-Assad protesters (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:39 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian security forces intensified their assault on protesters calling for President Bashar al-Assad to quit, killing at least 34 demonstrators in the latest crackdown in the city of Hama, activists said.

Seeking Calm, Bahrain's Government Lifts Martial Law (Time.com) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:10 PM PDT Time.com - While there's been no end to the violent crackdown on dissent, Bahrain's rulers hope to reassure international bankers and auto-racing promoters that the crisis is over

Defiant Mladic calls genocide charges 'obnoxious' (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT AP - Last seen as a swaggering general in the Bosnia war, Ratko Mladic needed help rising from his chair for war-crimes judges Friday, his limp right hand too weak to put on earphones without assistance.

Rocket wounds Yemen president, escalating fight (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT AP - President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebellious tribesmen struck his palace with rockets Friday, targeting him for the first time in a dramatic escalation of fighting that has turned parts of the capital into a battleground and pushed Yemen toward civil war.

Haitian migrants leave DomRep with cash incentive (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:15 PM PDT AP - More than 2,000 Haitians who fled to the Dominican Republic after a devastating earthquake are returning home under a new program that offers migrants cash as an incentive, officials said Friday.

Lawyer: 12 Zimbabwe cop-death suspects tortured (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - Twelve visibly wounded suspects accused of killing a police inspector have appeared in a Zimbabwe court, and their lawyer said they were tortured repeatedly by police in jail.

Liu won't run in Europe before worlds - coach (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:36 PM PDT AFP - With a 2012 Olympic challenge on the horizon and the spectre of injury hovering, Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang will take a softly-softly approach to this World Championships season.

Government unveils plan for jobs, balanced budget (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 01:36 PM PDT Reuters - The Conservative government will focus on jobs and growth while eliminating the federal budget deficit, it said on Friday as it unveiled a plan for the four-year mandate it won in last month's election.

Ten-tonne polar bear "dying" slow death in Sydney (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 06:01 AM PDT Reuters - A ten tonne polar bear camping out at Sydney's majestic Circular Quay isn't likely to survive for more than a day or two.

Why Japan's Prime Minister Kan survived ouster bid (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 10:39 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Japan’s prime minister, Naoto Kan, has lived to fight another day by offering to resign as soon as he has placed the country on the road to recovery from the March 11 tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis.

Syria: Inside Bashar Assad's Dungeons (Time.com) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:10 PM PDT Time.com - Algerian journalist Khaled Sid Mohand spent 25 days last month locked up in one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's prisons. Questioned, threatened and beaten, here is his story

South Africa moves ahead with bill to limit freedom of information (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:22 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - As currently written, the “Protection of Information” bill would grant the government broad powers to classify documents for reasons ranging from national security to protection of state possessions: everything from top-secret weapons plans for the South African National Defense Forces to the allotments of elephant feed at the Johannesburg Zoo.

Thirty Years of HIV (OneWorld.net) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:45 PM PDT OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jun 3 (IRIN/PlusNews) - It is three decades since the first HIV case was reported and in that time, an estimated 30 million people have died, another 34 million are living with the virus and an estimated 7,000 new infections occur every day. But it is not all bad news - according to a new report by UNAIDS, a record 1.4 million people started antiretroviral drugs in 2010, and the global rate of new HIV infections declined by nearly 25 percent between 2001 and 2009.

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