(Continued from page 20)

last year's March tsunami and earthquake set off multiple meltdowns at Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. Some 150,000 people evacuated from a 20-kilometer (12-mile) zone around the plant because of radiation fears, and the area is deemed unsafe to live in more than a year later.
• The disaster, the world's second-worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl, has deeply divided Japan, which had been previously bullish on nuclear technology.
• Monday's rally at sprawling Yoyogi Park was the latest and among the biggest -- drawing possibly as many as 200,000 people, according to organizers -- in a series of large protests that is unusual for normally reserved Japanese.
• ___

• THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic is back in court for his genocide trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal after recovering from a health scare that saw him rushed to the hospital last week.
• The 70-year-old Mladic rose slowly from his chair in the courtroom Monday as judges entered and then polished a pair of reading glasses as his attorney, Branko Lukic, resumed the cross-examination of a witness that was interrupted last Thursday when Mladic complained of feeling ill.
• Neither Lukic nor Presiding Judge Alphons Orie has said anything about Mladic's health.

• The tribunal released a statement Friday saying tests conducted at a Hague hospital showed Mladic was fit to stand trial.
• He faces 11 charges alleging he masterminded Serb atrocities throughout the Bosnian war. Mladic denies wrongdoing.
• ___

• JERUSALEM (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham and Israel's president spoke Monday about the need to halt Syria's violence and Iran's potential production of nuclear weapons, underscoring American support for an ally in a difficult neighborhood.
• Clinton met President Shimon Peres for about an hour as part of what is perhaps her final visit to Israel as secretary of state, bringing a message of solidarity to the

(Continued on page 22)