What?  The tenth?  June is in double digits already?  Oh well.  Hey, here’s some more world news for your perusal.

Libya’s Army Chief of Staff has quit after 31 people died in clashes in the city of Benghazi.  The fighting erupted on Saturday when dozens of demonstrators stormed a base belonging to the defense ministry-aligned militias tasked with maintaining security.  Those militias were part of the rebel groups that ended the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, but have refused to give up their guns since then.

Syrian rebels claim that government troops killed at least a hundred people who fled the war-torn town of Qusair near the Lebanese border.  The area was the scene of intense for days as the army dislodged rebels.  The rebels say most of the dead were hit by machine-gun fire and a sustained bombardment over the past three days as they tried to cross a highway east of Qusair to areas beyond the reach of government forces.

US troops with Patriot Missiles and F-16 Fighter Jets began training in Jordan, in the shadow of Syria’s civil war.  Washington last week confirmed the contingent to Jordan, and says they might stay there after the current military exercises.  The move is condemned by Russia, which allies itself with the Syrian government.

At least 15 people have been killed in flooding in Central Europe.  A dam has burst on the River Elbe in Germany, forcing thousands to leave their homes around Magdeburg.  But the Danube appears to have peaked in Budapest, Hungary and officials say the city’s flood defenses appear to be holding it back.

North and South Korean delegates have agreed on 2-day high-level talks in Seoul from Wednesday.  This, after working level talks in the peace village of Panmunjom straddling the border between the two Koreas, both of which will discuss reopening the Kaesong join industrial park. 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is halting a plan to restrict the sale of staple food items like rice, sugar, and milk in a western province.  Local leaders wanted want amounts to food rationing to curb smuggling to neighboring Colombia.  Maduro says that’s “insane”.  Venezuela is struggling with shortages at grocery stores, with as much as 20 percent of key good unavailable to consumers at any given time.

The central figure in the building collapse that killed six people in Philadelphia will stay in jail for the time being.  A judge denied bail for 42-year old Sean Benchop, an immigrant from Guyana who tests found had marijuana and prescription drugs in his system when he was operating the crane at the scene.  The building was undergoing demolition when it collapsed onto a neighboring store.