World -- June 1, 2006

• 95th International Labor Conference opens in Geneva
• DPRK plans to lower current smoking rate to 30 percent by 2010: official
• Final referendum results confirm Montenegro independence
• Fighting breaks out in Sri Lanka's north
• Hamas forms technical committee to study Arab peace initiative

• Hamas offers Israel conditional long-term truce: spokesman
• Iraqi PM declares state of emergency in Basra
• Iraqi ambassador to U.S. says relative killed by U.S. marines
• Indian BrahMos' 12th test flight successful
• Lithuanian PM, government resign

• Montenegro most likely to declare independence on Saturday: speaker
• Palestine's top diplomat pledges to study Arab peace initiative with positive attitude
• Pentagon report predicts persistent Iraq insurgency this year
• Roundup: Vietnam sets one foot in WTO
• Roundup: AU urges Sudan's Darfur rebels to accept peace deal

• Rice says U.S. to join EU in nuclear talks with Iran
• Saddam Hussein trial adjourned until Monday
• Sri Lanka gov't to attend Oslo meeting with Tamil Tigers
• UN holds ceremony marking Peacekeepers' Day