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WASHINGTON/PENSACOLA, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make a high-stakes address to the nation on Tuesday night seeking to restore public confidence in his handling of BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil spill and drive forward his ambitious plans to cut U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck a remote part of southern California, near the border with Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The governor of Japan's Okinawa told new Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday that a U.S.-Japan deal to move a U.S. base on the southern island will be tough to implement, in a sign the issue will keep haunting the government ahead of a July election.

WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Late Senator Edward Kennedy was subject to scores of death threats before and after the assassinations of his brothers, according to FBI files released on Monday that also revealed efforts by the Kennedy family to fight rumors that he had links to Communists.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Secretive North Korea make a first return to the World Cup since 1966 on Tuesday but could hardly face a bigger challenge than five-times champions Brazil.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man who tried to enter a Florida military base with fake identification and a stash of guns and ammunition is a U.S. serviceman absent without leave from the military, base officials said on Tuesday.

YORKISHLOK, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Refugees from Kyrgyzstan's vicious ethnic bloodletting begged to be let into neighboring Uzbekistan on Tuesday as the United Nations urged Kyrgyz authorities to stamp out the violence.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday that any U.N. Security Council action over the sinking of a South Korean naval ship that was hostile to Pyongyang would be met by a military "follow-up."

THEODORE, Ala./HOUSTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers accused BP Plc on Monday of repeatedly taking risky shortcuts on its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well, while President Barack Obama pushed the energy giant to compensate spill victims.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday announced new rules it said would protect Americans who want to keep their current health insurance but critics say the changes could end up causing millions to lose their coverage.

WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Late Senator Edward Kennedy was subject to scores of death threats before and after the assassinations of his brothers, according to FBI files released on Monday that also revealed efforts by the Kennedy family to fight rumors that he had links to Communists.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc took risky shortcuts in drilling its Macondo well that "increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure," two U.S. lawmakers probing the well's blow-out and the worst U.S. oil spill said on Monday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament convened on Monday for the first time since a March election, cloaked by heavy security a day after gunmen and suicide bombers raided the central bank in a sign of continued lawlessness and instability.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Secretive North Korea make a first return to the World Cup since 1966 on Tuesday but could hardly face a bigger challenge than five-times champions Brazil.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South and North Korea addressed the U.N. Security Council separately on Monday over the deadly sinking of a South Korean naval ship in March that has raised tension on the Korean peninsula.

By Noah Barkin, Paul Taylor, Tim Heritage, Emmanuel Jarry, Andreas Rinke and James Mackenzie

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament convened on Monday for the first time since a March election, cloaked by heavy security a day after gunmen and suicide bombers raided the central bank in a sign of continued lawlessness and instability.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet approved on Monday an Israeli inquiry into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, responding to international demands for impartiality by putting two foreign observers on the panel.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - A group of ex-Soviet states Monday proposed sending helicopters and equipment to help Kyrgyzstan's government stop ethnic violence that has killed at least 124 people, and suggested troops could follow.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said on Monday.