U.N. urges Japan nuclear safety overhaul after Fukushima (Reuters)

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• U.N. urges Japan nuclear safety overhaul after Fukushima (Reuters)
• Mladic to face genocide charges within days (Reuters)
• North Korea says rejects South's secret summits offer (Reuters)
• Pakistan military helicopter crashes; no word on casualties (Reuters)
• Syria's Machinery of Repression: Can Fear Be Overcome? (Time.com)
• Cash-strapped Belarus seeks IMF rescue (AFP)
• Police boost patrols for east Jerusalem march (AP)
• Police nabs 15 Zetas lookouts, 10 police in Mexico (AP)
• $25K bail for Egyptian businessman in NYC sex case (AP)
• Militants attack Pakistan checkpoint; 5 killed (AP)
• Vancouver to brush away cobwebs against Boston (Reuters)
• Australia to replace defence chief (AFP)
• What Pakistan's ISI doesn't want the world to know about Osama bin Laden's couriers (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Libya's Gaddafi Has Limited Options: Death, Jail or Exile (Time.com)
• Nepal struggles to shape a government that can govern (The Christian Science Monitor)

U.N. urges Japan nuclear safety overhaul after Fukushima (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:59 AM PDT Reuters - U.N. atomic safety experts said Japan underestimated the threat from a killer wave to its crippled Fukushima power plant and urged sweeping changes to prevent a repeat of the crisis that triggered the word's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Mladic to face genocide charges within days (Reuters) Posted: 31 May 2011 06:57 PM PDT Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, extradited to the Netherlands from Serbia Tuesday after 16 years on the run, will face genocide charges at the U.N. war crimes tribunal within days.

North Korea says rejects South's secret summits offer (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:17 AM PDT Reuters - Isolated North Korea rejected a proposal by rival South Korea at a secret meeting last month to hold a series of three summits in a bid to defuse tension on the divided peninsula, the North's KCNA state news agency reported on Wednesday.

Pakistan military helicopter crashes; no word on casualties (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:36 AM PDT Reuters - A military helicopter with the head of the provincial paramilitary force on board crashed in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, a military official said.

Syria's Machinery of Repression: Can Fear Be Overcome? (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:35 AM PDT Time.com - Syria's regime has just declared a general amnesty, but read the fine print before believing that Assad is being generous. His government believes it knows better than to go soft

Cash-strapped Belarus seeks IMF rescue (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:46 AM PDT AFP - Belarus said Wednesday it had applied to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a rescue loan amid growing isolation and pressure from traditional sponsor Russia to put key state assets up for sale.

Police boost patrols for east Jerusalem march (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:18 AM PDT AP - Israeli police have boosted security and stepped up patrols across Jerusalem to prevent possible clashes when Israelis march through the largely Palestinian east Jerusalem to mark the anniversary of Israel's capture of the area in 1967.

Police nabs 15 Zetas lookouts, 10 police in Mexico (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 07:57 PM PDT AP - Police say they have arrested 25 drug cartel members or collaborators in central Mexico, including a police chief, two commanding officers and seven agents suspected of aiding traffickers.

$25K bail for Egyptian businessman in NYC sex case (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:31 AM PDT AP - NEW YORK (AP) — A businessman and former chairman of a major Egyptian bank charged with sexually abusing a housekeeper at a luxury Manhattan hotel is being held on $25,000 bail and has been ordered to hand over his passport because he is considered a flight risk.

Militants attack Pakistan checkpoint; 5 killed (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:54 AM PDT AP - Police say some 200 militants have streamed over the border from Afghanistan and attacked a nearby Pakistani checkpoint, killing at least five security troops.

Vancouver to brush away cobwebs against Boston (Reuters) Posted: 31 May 2011 07:33 PM PDT Reuters - The Vancouver Canucks will have to shake some rust off their skates when they finally take to the ice on Wednesday against the Boston Bruins in the NHL's Stanley Cup championship.

Australia to replace defence chief (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:52 AM PDT AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that defence force chief Angus Houston will be replaced by his deputy in July, as she admitted it was a "testing time" for the force.

What Pakistan's ISI doesn't want the world to know about Osama bin Laden's couriers (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 May 2011 12:54 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Osama bin Laden’s couriers, Arshad and Tariq Khan â€" who were killed alongside him during the raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan â€" were born and raised in Kuwait after their Pakistani father settled there to become an imam, according to relatives and other residents in their ancestral village.

Libya's Gaddafi Has Limited Options: Death, Jail or Exile (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:35 AM PDT Time.com - If he hopes to avoid being killed in a NATO air strike or languishing in prison at The Hague, sneaking into exile may be the Libyan dictator's only choice

Nepal struggles to shape a government that can govern (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 May 2011 11:41 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Nepal’s politicians, often pegged as excellent engineers of street protests but poor managers of state affairs, averted a political meltdown and clinched a deal this weekend that bought them three more months to sort out issues that have wracked the country for three years.

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