१० प्रदेश माने प्रधानमन्त्रीले राजीनामा दिने
                    माओवादीले दश प्रदेशसहितको संघीय खाकामा कांग्रेस एमालेले सहमति जनाए जेठ १४ अघि नै प्रधानमन्त्रीले राजीनामा गर्ने निर्णय गरेको छ ।
माओवादी संस्थापन पक्षको बिहीवार बिहान बसेको स्थायी समितिको अनौपचारिक वैठकले माओवादीले अघि सारेअनुसार दश प्रदेशमा नामाङ्कनसहित सहमति जुटेर संबिधान आउने सुनिश्चीत भए प्रधानमन्त्रीले राजीनामा दिने निर्णय गरेको हो ।
वैठकमा माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्डले संघीयताको बिषयमा आफ्नो प्रस्तावमा कांग्रेस एमाले सहमत भए जेठ १४ अघि नै प्रधानमन्त्रीले राजीनामा दिनुपर्ने प्रस्ताव गर्नुभएको थियो । यसबारे नेपाली कांग्रेसका नेताहरुलाई अनौपचारिक प्रस्ताव पठाइसकेको प्रचण्डले जानकारी दिनुभएको थियो ।
वैठकपछि प्रचण्डनिकट नेता हरिवोल गजुरेलले भन्नुभयो- हामीले प्रस्ताव गरेअनुसार नामाङ्कनसहित दश प्रदेशमा कुरा मिल्यो भने प्रधानमन्त्रीले राजीनामा गर्नुहुन्छ ।’ त्यसो हुँदा जेठ १४ अघि नै संबिधानको मस्यौदा आउने ग्यारेन्टी हुने र बाँकी कामका लागि रुपान्तरित संसदलाई दिने गरि संबिधानसभाको म्याद नथप्न सकिने गजुरेलले बताउनुभयो । तर संबिधानका मुख्य बिषयमा सहमति नजुट्दासम्म प्रधानमन्त्रीले राजीनामा नदिने र त्यो पाँचबुँदेको मर्म पनि नभएको गजुरेलको दावी छ ।
प्रचण्डले केहीसमय अघि दश स्वसासित र चितवन केन्द्र शासित हुने खाका पेश गर्नुभएको थियो । जसमा प्रदेशको नाम एउटा जातीय पहिचान र अर्को भौगोलिक गरि दुईवटा संयुक्त नाम रहने प्रस्ताव गरिएको थियो ।
प्रचण्डको प्रस्तावअनुसार कांग्रेस केन्द्रीय समितिको जारी वैठकमा पनि दश प्रदेशबारे छलफल भइरहेको बताइएको छ । कांग्रेस र एमालेले दश प्रदेशमा सहमति जनाए जेठ १४ अघि मस्यौदा आउने र मस्यौदासँगै प्रधानमन्त्रीले राजीनामा दिने सम्भावना रहेको बताइएको छ ।
स्थायी समिति सदस्य बर्षमान पुनले कांग्रेस र एमालेसँग संबिधानका बिषयमा कुरा मिले जेठ १४ भित्रै संबिधान आउनसक्ने अबस्था रहेको बताउनुभयो । सहमति नभएपनि उपसमिति वैठक बस्ने र बिबादित बिषयका प्रश्न संबैधानिक समितिमा लगिने पुनले जानकारी दिनुभयो ।

ढिस्कोले किचेर गम्भिर घाईते भएकी ममताकी आमा नितुदेवीको भने उपचारका लागि जनकपुर अञ्चल अस्पताल लगिएको प्रहरीले जनाएको छ ।

बैठकमा पार्टीकै बैद्य पक्षिय नेताहरुलेसंविधान सभाको म्याद थपका विषयमा गरेको विरोधका बारेमा पनि छलफल भईरहेको बताईएको छ ।

यद्यपी बैठकमा बैद्यपक्षिय नेताहरुको भने सहभागिता रहेको छैन् । बैठकका बारेमा आफुहरुलाई कुनै जानकारी नभएको माओवादी सचिव सिपी गजुरेलले जानकारी दिनुभयो ।

उहाँले जेठ १४ मै जसरी भएपनि संविधान जारी गर्नुपर्ने दाबी पनि गर्नुभयो ।

माओबादी नेतृत्वको सरकारले संसदमा संविधानको म्याद थपको प्रस्ताब पेश गरेपछि सत्तारुढ दलहरु कांग्रेस र एमाले सहित माओबादीकै बैद्य पक्षले उक्त प्रस्तावको विरोध गदैआएका छन् ।

Floating material including buoys and Styrofoam has washed up on Montague Island, some 120 miles (190 kilometers) southeast of Anchorage, in volumes that clearly suggest a wave of debris from the March 11, 2011 killer tidal wave.

"The debris found on initial surveys of the island showed an absolutely unprecedented amount of buoys, Styrofoam and other high floating debris," said Patrick Chandler of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies.

He said debris from Asia has been washing up on Alaska shores for years, so "it is incredibly difficult to say with complete confidence that a given piece of debris is from the tsunami."

"However, we have never seen the amount we see now. In the past we would find a few dozen large black buoys, used in Japanese aquaculture, on an outside beach cleanup. Now we see hundreds," he told AFP, before the start of a planned 12-day cleanup operation, set to start Thursday.

"There is no other possible source for this increase besides the tsunami, so our conclusion is that is where it must be from."

Millions of tonnes of debris are expected to wash up in the coming months and years from the Japanese quake. Researchers in Hawaii have developed computer models to forecast where and when it could come ashore.

In early April, the US Coast Guard sunk a deserted Japanese trawler that had appeared off the coast of Alaska more than a year after being set adrift by the tsunami.

Also last month, a Japanese schoolboy heard he was getting his ball back, after it was spotted by an observant beachcomber on Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska.

Canadian media reported in early May that a Harley-Davidson, with Japanese plates from one of the hardest hit areas, was found by a beachcomber on the Haida Gwaii islands off the coast of British Columbia.

The charges filed Tuesday against Anwar Ibrahim come just four months after he was acquitted of sodomy charges that he claims were an attempt to damage him politically. He said the new accusations, ahead of national elections that many speculate will be held by September, have the same motive.

"It is clearly a politically motivated charge. Elections are around the corner," Anwar told reporters.

Anwar and the two allies were charged in a Kuala Lumpur court with defying a court ban against assembling at a public square in Kuala Lumpur last month and inciting other demonstrators to breach a police barricade.

They pleaded innocent and face a maximum jail sentence of six months and fines totaling 12,000 ringgit ($3,800) if convicted. The court scheduled a preliminary hearing on July 2 to determine further trial dates.

Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said the charges against the opposition leaders "don't inspire confidence that the Malaysian government is committed to protecting basic free expression rights."

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was monitoring the case closely. She urged Malaysian authorities "to ensure that due process is protected and that any trial is conducted in a fair and transparent manner."

Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid, an opponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was buried in northern Lebanon a day after he was shot dead at a Lebanese army checkpoint in a part of that country where Sunni sympathy for Syria's rebels and the uprising against Assad is particularly strong.

Demonstrators blocked roads and burned tires in the northern province of Akkar, and similar protests in Beirut gave way to firefights with machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades.

The clashes on Monday between gunmen from the Future Movement, loyal to anti-Assad former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, and members of a pro-Assad party, left two dead and was the worst unrest in Beirut since sectarian fighting brought Lebanon to the brink of civil war in 2008.