Serbian authorities detained 180 people who had attacked police injuring 32 during a protest against the arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said on May 30.

President Barack Obama has promised victims of the deadliest U.S tornado in 65 years that the federal government would help them rebuild, saying this is a national tragedy.

A bomb blast rocked a popular drinking spot inside the army barracks in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing a dozen people hours after President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in for his first full term.

Yemeni forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on protesters in the southern city of Taiz on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding 120, hospital sources said.

Russia's change of its stance on the chronic Libyan crisis raised doubts from the Libyan government, but was applauded by the Libyan opposition.

Tokyo Electric Power has restored the cooling system of the nuclear reactor and fuel pool at the No. 5 unit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northeastern Japan, an official of the plant operator said on May 29.

A shallow-undersea quake with a magnitude of 6.3 jolted Sumatra island early May 29, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reported here.

Latvian President Valdis Zatlers announced in a nationwide TV address on May 28 night that he is dissolving the Parliament in accordance with Article 48 of the Latvian Constitution.

The Arab League says it will seek full UN membership for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday reiterated Moscow's opposition to discussing the Syria situation in the U.N Security Council, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.