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June 03, 2012 | | RECALL The Romney and Obama campaigns will be keeping a close eye on Wisconsin's recall election Tuesday, noting which way the crucial swing state leans in the battle to replace Gov. Scott Walker. The Daily Beast's John Avlon reports on why a loss for the GOP would be an embarrassing result: the Republication National Committee is stacked with former Wisconsin state officials, turning the election into a personal mission for chairman Reince Priebus. DICTATOR As his forces poured shells into the city of Homs Sunday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad got up on a soapbox to say his country was facing “a war from abroad.” Homs has been a center of antigovernment opposition during the 14-month popular uprising against Assad’s regime. “Dealing with it [the foreign threat] is different from dealing with people inside,” Assad said. In a 70-minute speech, Assad told those opposed to the government to “drop their weapons at once, and the government will not seek revenge now or later.” On Saturday United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan said that the “specter of all-out civil war” loomed over Syria. Assad also denied Sunday that his government had a role in the Houla massacre that left more than 100 Syrians dead. OUTRAGE Ousted, disgraced, and sentenced to life in prison, the name of former president Hosni Mubarak still outrages many Egyptians. Thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square on Saturday to demonstrate for a stricter sentence against Mubarak and his aides. “The Mubarak verdict mock us,” protester Sharif Ali told reporters. “He and [former Interior Minister Habib] Adly got a sentence, and their aides got nothing. When they return to court on appeal, they will be freed, too.” Protesters remained in Tahrir, the ideological home of last year’s anti-Mubarak demonstrations, continuing demonstrations that have reportedly left 100 injured across Egypt. JUBILEE In an epochal display in honor of Queen Elizabeth’s 60-year reign, more than 1,000 watercraft will pack the Thames on Sunday. Subjects in the hundreds of thousands are expected to turn out despite it being a bit of a foggy day in London Town, and the queen herself will make an appearance along with other members of the royal family aboard the royal barge. See our full coverage. EURO ZONE German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected plans to share euro debt Saturday, saying broader economic restructuring is needed to get Europe back on its feet. Market watchers pointed to the slow movement by European leaders to rectify the currency crisis as a cause of economic woes internationally, including a dip in Chinese manufacturing and a poor U.S. jobs report. In a recent appearance, Obama attributed American economic malaise in part to “Europe and the cloud that’s coming over from the Atlantic,” adding that “the whole world economy has been weakened by it.” Merkel has said Germany will participate “under no circumstances” to shared debt in the euro zone. | | 
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