
The Public Observer offers a look at upcoming news next week and presents a pictorial roundup of recent images captured by photographers from The Associated Press.
NORTH KOREA
Members of the United Nations Security Council will meet over the weekend and likely will produce a new resolution next week in response to North Korea's recent nuclear test. It is expected that the resolution will call for countries to enforce existing sanctions, including an arms embargo and ship searches for illegal weapons.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR
President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, will make the rounds of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday and will meet with Senators Harry Reid, (D-Nevada), Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and also could meet with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). She will make more visits as the confirmation process gets underway and also will return a 10-page questionnaire to the Senate next week in advance of her public confirmation hearings.
OBAMA TO DELIVER SPEECH TO MUSLIM WORLD, ATTEND D-DAY CEREMONIES
Obama will travel to the Middle East next week, making his first stop in Saudi Arabia where he will meet Wednesday with King Abdullah. The two likely will discuss the stalled Middle East peace process and rising oil prices. The president will deliver a speech in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday about U.S.-Muslim relations that will focus on outreach efforts and the contributions of Muslims in the United States. He also will visit a mosque while in Egypt.
Obama will then travel to Germany where he will visit troops and their families at a military hospital in Landstuhl. He'll also visit the Buchenwald concentration camp with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Obama's great uncle, Charles Payne, was among the U.S. infantrymen who liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald camp.
The 65th anniversary of the Allied landings on D-Day will be commemorated at the end of next week in Normandy, France. Obama will attend the ceremonies and give a speech, but the British queen will not be there.
GEITHNER IN CHINA; 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will be in China for two days early next week to discuss the Obama administration's attempts to deal with a massive budget deficit and America's soaring trade deficit with China. Geithner will meet with Chinese President Hua Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top Chinese officials.
Student-led protests against Chinese authoritarianism ended in early June 1989 with a deadly crackdown by the military and a brave act of defiance by one man who stood up to a column of rolling tanks in Tianenmen Square. The 20th anniversary of the Tianenmen Square massacre will be marked next week and Chinese authorities have been clamping down on dissenters, including activist lawyers ahead of the anniversary.
PICTORIAL ROUNDUP: Here's a look at some recent photographs by The Associated Press.
Candle lit lanterns dot the waters off Ala Moan Beach Park on Monday during the 10th anniversary of the Lantern Floating Hawaii Ceremony in Honolulu. During the traditonal Buddhist ceremony, lanterns are cast into the waters off the beach in remembrance of loved ones who have passed away. The ceremony is held on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
A Pakistani displaced boy from Swat valley sleeps Tuesday under a mosquito net outside his tent at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. More than 2 million refugees have been displaced due to fighting between the military and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Dancers of the World Roma festival Khamoro dance Thursday at the Old Town square in Prague, Czech Republic. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
A Bosnian woman walks away from a mass grave Tuesday after an attempt to identify remains buried in the village of Mrsici near the eastern Bosnian town of Vlasenica, northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia. The grave may contain dozens of remains, most likely of Muslims, who were killed in July 1995 during the fall of Srebrenica. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
Russia's Maria Sharapova serves the ball to Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova during their third round match Friday at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Pregnant women with baby faces painted on their bellies take part in a dance contest Tuesday to celebrate ''Healthy Maternity Week'' at a public hospital in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Same-sex marriage advocate Niko Salas, center, waves a rainbow flag during a protest Tuesday in Los Angeles after the California Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The court also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
--Paul Chavez, Clear365 News Editor
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