BELGRADE, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union. ...  > full story

CHICAGO, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — There are weeks in the political life of Angela Merkel that were surely more pleasant than the last one. ...  > full story

BEIJING, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — North Korea released a number of Chinese fishermen and boats on Sunday two weeks after seizing them, ending a rare public dispute between the two allies, Chinese state media reported. ...  > full story

BEIRUT, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — Lebanese soldiers shot dead two members of an alliance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in northern Lebanon on Sunday, security sources said, in the latest incident to raise fears Syria's turmoil was spilling over the border into its neighbor. ...  > full story

BEIRUT, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — Syrian army shelling killed 16 people, including children, on Sunday in the town of Souran in the central province of Hama, the British-based rights group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. ...  > full story

DUBAI, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — A Bahraini court granted bail on Sunday to leading activist Nabeel Rajab, who is charged with insulting authorities in the Gulf Arab state, but he is still being held pending trial for a different case, his lawyer said. ...  > full story

Santo Domingo, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — Early results in presidential elections in the Dominican Republic show ruling party candidate Danilo Medina headed for revenge 12 years after he lost in a landslide to opposition candidate Hipolito Mejia. ...  > full story

VIENNA, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — The U.N. nuclear supervisor flies to Tehran on Sunday looking for a deal to inspect suspected weapons sites - a potential breakthrough that Iran may hope could persuade the West to start lifting sanctions and deflect threats of war. ...  > full story

PARIS, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — An opinion poll published on Sunday showed that French far-right leader Marine Le Pen would lose to far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon in her home district in parliamentary elections next month. ...  > full story

QALYUB, Egypt, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — The motorcade of Hamdeen Sabahy, a dark horse in Egypt's presidential race, inched over the bumpy roads of this Egyptian town led by a car booming 1960s nationalist music in homage to his hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. ...  > full story