World -- June 17, 2006

• Backgrounder: Basic facts about CICA
• Cyprus protests Annan's comments on Cypriot-Turkish problem
• Canadian PM announces new transportation safety measures
• Canadian PM rejects "puppet" suggestions
• Death toll from Baghdad mosque suicide bombing rises to 10

• DPRK again accuses U.S. of conducting spy flights
• EU leaders urge Iran to respond "positively" to six-nation proposal
• EU leaders okay temporary int'l mechanism for Palestinian aid
• Indonesian VP says he can understand angry Howard
• Norway warns of full civil war in Sri Lanka

• Roundup: Indonesia in standoff with Australia on Ba'asyir's release
• Summit talks between Nepali gov't, guerrillas ends
• Sri Lankan president condemns bus attack
• Timor-Leste militants hand over weapons to foreign troops
• Turkey not to open its ports, airports to Cyprus: PM

• Time, money running out in Iraqi reconstruction efforts: report
• Two Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike
• UN extends court for Rwanda judges' mandate
• UN authorizes trial of former Liberian president in Hague