IOWA
State GOP invites Trump to headline eventDonald Trump has been invited to give the keynote address at the Iowa Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner, a tantalizing escalation of the real estate mogul's purported interest in a presidential campaign. The June 10 fundraiser will mark Trump's first potential campaign trip to the state. Other Republicans considering a presidential bid -- including Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann -- have already been traveling to Iowa and other early voting states.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Did air traffic controller fall asleep on duty?Two airliners landed at Ronald Reagan National Airport without clearance or guidance from the airport's control tower, and officials were looking into the possibility that the air traffic controller on duty had fallen asleep. Both planes -- an American Airlines flight from Dallas and a United Airlines flight from Chicago -- followed procedure for landing at an airport with unstaffed towers, which occurs at some smaller airports.
PORTUGAL
Government falls amid debt crisisPrime Minister Jose Socrates resigned after parliament rejected his government's latest austerity package, plunging the country into a political crisis that was expected to encourage Lisbon to seek a bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. Portugal must raise $6 billion or more next month.
BRITAIN
'We are sticking to' the austerity budgetChancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne presented a second austerity budget to Parliament that veered little from the government's commitment to sharp cuts in public spending despite signs of slowing growth. "Britain has a plan, and we are sticking to it," he said. The plan does scrap a proposed increase in fuel taxes and includes tax cuts for lower-income families.
UGANDA
Police unit is accused of torture and killingsThe Ugandan government has engaged in torture, illegal detention and extrajudicial killings of its citizens, a Human Rights Watch report said. It focuses on the activities of an agency known as the Rapid Response Unit, a branch of the police service. The report said members of the unit committed six extrajudicial killings in 2010. Some people were beaten to death and some were shot, it said.
GERMANY
Open-ended sentence given in sex-abuse caseA man who admitted in court to more than 150 counts of sexually abusing and raping three of his children was sentenced in Koblenz to 14 1/2 years in prison, with the stipulation that he remain in protective custody after that because of the risk of reoffending. The man, identified only as Detlef S, 48, acknowledged that he had fathered seven children by his 27-year-old stepdaughter and also forced his two daughters into prostitution.
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