The Daily Tension for Thu. 1 June

TENSION NEWSMAKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran demonstrate in Parliament Square, in London against Iran's nuclear development and over terror attacks on Iranians in Iraq.

MEDIA
Is a story worth a life?
(BBC) -- Jonathan Baker, who has just ended five years as the BBC's world news editor, explains how trying to keep correspondents safe has become an overwhelming preoccupation of the support teams back at base who deal with the logistics behind each foreign assignment.

ILLEGAL ALIENS
Senate Bill Would Add 20 Million Legal Immigrants, Report Says
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- The nation's population of legal immigrants would increase by nearly 20 million over the next decade if the recently passed Senate immigration bill becomes law, and taxpayers would spend more than $50 billion to operate a new guest-worker program and pay for extra welfare, Social Security and public health-care costs, according to a Congressional Budget Office report.

IRAQ CONFLICT
Zarqawi urges Iraqi Sunnis to shun Shi'ites: Web
DUBAI (Reuters) -- Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi called on fellow Sunnis to reject any reconciliation with "infidel" Shi'ites, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday.

IRAN NUCLEAR CRISIS
US offer no new solution, says Mottaki
(IRNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Thursday US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest remarks presented no "new and rational solution" to Iran's nuclear case.

6 World Powers Agree on Iran Incentives
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Six world powers agreed Thursday to offer Iran a new choice of rewards if it gives up suspect nuclear activities or punishment if it refuses, a gambit that could either defuse a global confrontation with the Islamic regime or hasten one. "There are two paths ahead," British...

Iran Calls U.S. Talks Offer 'Propaganda'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States said Wednesday it would join in face-to-face talks with Iran over its disputed nuclear program once Tehran puts its atomic activities on hold, a shift in tactics meant to offer the Iranians a last chance to avoid punishing sanctions.

EUROPE
French Police Secure Poor Paris Suburb
MONTFERMEIL, France (AP) -- Police combed the rooftops in a troubled Paris suburb Wednesday in search of objects that could be hurled at them while others patrolled the streets after two nights of violence.

MIDDLE EAST
Shiite Muslims Protest Over Comedy Show
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Thousands of Shiite Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah took to the streets of southern Beirut on Thursday night, burning car tires and blocking roads, police and witneses said.

Hizbollah loyalists riot in Beirut over TV satire
BEIRUT, June 1 (Reuters) -- Thousands of Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims burned tyres and blocked roads in Beirut on Thursday to protest against a satirical television show that mocked Hizbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Palestinian views on travel curbs
(BBC) -- The UN says travel restrictions in the West Bank have increased dramatically in the last year, with the de facto division of the territory into three main sections and several enclaves. Click on the map to find out how four Palestinians living there have been affected.

AFRICA
Nigeria: Runsewe Urges Politicians To Shun Thuggery
LAGOS (Daily Champion) -- Executive Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, has advised politicians in the country to shun acts capable of heating up the polity and thereby creating palpable tension in the political landscape.

Khadafi urges Sudan and Chad to make peace
TRIPOLI (AFP) -- Libyan leader Moamer Khadafi urged Sudan and Chad to settle their differences in the name of African unity as he opened a summit of African leaders in Tripoli.

Mali leader visits Libya
TRIPOLI, June 01 (Reuters) -- Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure arrived in Tripoli on Wednesday to attend a gathering of African leaders amid tension between his central government in Bamako and Tuaregs in northern Mali.

Mogadishu tense as battling factions re-group
MOGADISHU (AFP) -- Fighting between Islamic militia and a US-backed warlord alliance subsided in the lawless Somali capital, but tension remained high as the factions re-grouped after deadly clashes.

ASIA
Indian doctors resume work after quota strike ends
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) -- Thousands of Indian doctors and interns were back at work at state hospitals on Thursday, ending a nearly three-week strike against a government move to reserve more college seats for lower castes.

Rival of East Timor PM Says He Should Quit
MAUBISSE, East Timor (AP) -- A fired military officer and one-time rebel whose dismissal contributed to East Timor's descent into violence blamed the prime minister for ordering recent killings and called Thursday for him to resign.

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