WORLD BRIEFS

MYANMAR: Power shortage protests grow

Protesters against electricity outages clashed with police Thursday and several were arrested. The spreading protests, which began Sunday, are a test to reforms by the civilian government of President Thein Sein after decades of military rule. Win Myint, a member of parliament, said demonstrators in Pyay, 160 miles northwest of Yangon, resisted when they thought police were going to arrest their leaders. Six people were detained after scuffles broke out but released several hours later, he said. Protests in Mandalay spread to four other locations. About 100 people held a candlelight vigil for the second night in Yangon.

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Massacre suspect extradited

Dejan Radojkovic, accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 arrived in Sarajevo yesterday after an overnight flight from Las Vegas, accompanied by federal agents, Bosnian authorities and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. His lawyer in Las Vegas, Don Chairez, denied any evidence links Radojkovic, 61, a permanent U.S. resident, owner of a grocery store and the father of two with the execution of the boys and men.

SYRIA: UN finds killings by both sides

Government forces and anti-government armed groups are both carrying out unlawful killings, torturing opponents and abusing children in the 15-month-old uprising, a UN-appointed panel of human rights experts said Thursday, though it underlined that security forces are still responsible for the largest share of the violence.

MEXICO: Hurricane Bud aims at coast

School was canceled in low-lying communities along the Pacific Coast Thursday as Hurricane Bud, a Category 2 storm, churned toward beach resorts and mountain villages. A hurricane warning was issued from Manzanillo northwestward to Cabo Corrientes.