International

AFP - Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott had the country's political establishment in uproar on Tuesday after an astonishing admission that voters often cannot trust what he says.

OneWorld.net - HUNZA, May 18 (IRIN) - Further landslides are exacerbating the threat that a newly formed 16km-long lake on the River Hunza in northern Pakistan may burst its banks, with local NGOs saying up to 13,000 people have already been displaced.

AP - EU nations are pushing for deep deficit cuts Tuesday to restore confidence in European governments' ability to tame the debt crisis and keep it from derailing the economic recovery.

Time.com - An attempt to use an Iraqi solution to insurgency backfires when members of a tribe receiving U.S. funding start shooting at each other

Time.com - Longing for a larger role on the world stage, Brazil and Turkey have come up with a deal to break Tehran's impasse with the U.S. But many questions remain

AP - Brazil's president says Iran's agreement to a nuclear fuel deal he helped craft proves his nation has finally become a new global power broker.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — To win the title of Miss USA, Rima Fakih paraded across a Las Vegas stage in a nearly microscopic bikini. She skirted disaster when she almost tripped in her glittery white evening gown. Finally, she told the judges that health insurance should cover birth control pills.

The Christian Science Monitor - Japan will launch a spacecraft that will use a solar sail to attempt a trip to Venus and beyond on Tuesday

AP - Soldiers have been hit by their own tear gas. Riot police scattered in fear when a party balloon popped. An anti-government protester, surrounded by security forces, escaped down a rope from a hotel balcony to the cheers of supporters.

Reuters - Yemeni security forces have launched an operation to free two Chinese oil workers kidnapped by separatist militants, a Defense Ministry website said on Monday.

AP - The last of 10 Americans detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake was released Monday after a judge convicted her and sentenced her to the time she had already served in jail.

AP - Greece's deputy tourism minister resigned Monday after tax officials said her husband, a popular singer and former film star, owes millions of euros in unpaid taxes, a major embarrassment for the cash-strapped government's war on tax evasion.

AP - Iraqi security forces have detained an al-Qaida militant suspected of planning an attack targeting the World Cup in South Africa next month, an official said Monday.

AP - Portugal's conservative president announced Monday he is ratifying a law allowing gay marriage in the predominantly Catholic country.

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan military investigators have accused Ahmed Wali Karzai, U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai's controversial half-brother, of intervening to protect powerful allies who are squatting illegally on government property in southern Afghanistan.