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• North Korea asks embassies to consider moving diplomats out
• France wants to keep 1,000 soldiers in Mali permanently
• No deal in sight on final day of Iran nuclear talks
• Rebels say take army post near Syria's southern border
• Venezuela's Maduro says campaign sabotage suspects arrested
• Guatemalan president rejects testimony linking him to war crimes
• Mauritania says holding Canadian linked to suspected militants
• Britain says believes "terrorists" planning attacks in Mogadishu
• Italy pardons U.S. pilot convicted in CIA rendition case
• Triple suicide triggered by economic struggle shocks Italy
• At least 36 killed in southwest Nigeria bus crash
• North Korea threats spark buzz on Guam, not panic
• Italy pardons US Air Force officer in CIA case
• NKorea warns embassies it can't guarantee safety
• Pyongyang rumblings have little effect on SKoreans
• Tax haven data leak names names, raises questions
• Pope seeks decisive action against sex abuse
• Eyeing Syria, White House woos regional rulers
• Venezuela's Capriles: Maduro won't last
• China kills market birds as flu found in pigeons
• Putin and Merkel set for a prickly Russian-German summit?
• Victims' groups cool to Pope Francis's first comments on abuse scandal
• Iran stance 'puzzles' negotiators after first day of nuclear talks
• Chilly White North? Canadian government secrecy on the rise
• Maasai face eviction from ancestral lands to make way for Dubai hunting firm
• Good Reads: Christian Middle East exodus, online ed, drone strikes, and Japan's prisons
• Blame game intensifies over who could have prevented Argentina's floods
• Is furor over football coach's 'fascism' really a sign of Britain's progress?
• As prospect of North Korea missile launch rises, some question US response to threats
• Report: Uneven justice could hurt stability in Ivory Coast
• How Myanmar's Buddhist-Muslim conflict has reached into Indonesia
• A gold rush in Indonesia you've never heard of
• Bryan Hoddle helps wounded vets run – and dream – again

North Korea asks embassies to consider moving diplomats out Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:35 PM PDT By Guy Faulconbridge and Ronald Popeski LONDON/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea warned on Friday it could not guarantee the safety of diplomats after next Wednesday and asked embassies to consider moving staff out of the country, European diplomats said, amid high tension on the Korean peninsula. The requests came on the heels of declarations by the government of the secretive communist state that real conflict was inevitable, because of what it termed "hostile" U.S. troop exercises with South Korea and U.N. sanctions imposed over North Korea's nuclear weapons testing. ...

France wants to keep 1,000 soldiers in Mali permanently Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:36 PM PDT By Adama Diarra and John Irish BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - France has proposed keeping a permanent force of 1,000 French troops in Mali to fight armed Islamist militants, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Friday. Fabius, on a visit to Bamako, said France was pushing ahead with plans to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence from the end of this month but planned to keep a combat force in Mali to support a future U.N. peacekeeping mission. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called last week for the deployment of a U.N. ...

No deal in sight on final day of Iran nuclear talks Posted: 05 Apr 2013 03:14 PM PDT By Justyna Pawlak and Yeganeh Torbati ALMATY (Reuters) - Iran enters a second day of talks with world powers on Saturday no closer to resolving a nuclear dispute that has led to sanctions on its oil exports and talk of a new Middle East war. The final day of negotiations is unlikely to achieve more than a willingness to keep talking, after Iran responded on Friday to a limited offer to ease sanctions with a proposal of its own that puzzled Western diplomats and which Russia said raised more questions than answers. ...

Rebels say take army post near Syria's southern border Posted: 05 Apr 2013 03:02 PM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they overran an army garrison that defends the main southern border crossing with Jordan on Friday and vowed to press on to take control of the major transit route. Fighters from the Free Syrian Army said they captured the Um al-Mayathen post on the main Damascus-Jordan highway in heavy fighting overnight that ended a siege that lasted more than a week. Dozens died in the clashes they said. ...

Venezuela's Maduro says campaign sabotage suspects arrested Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:46 PM PDT By Daniel Wallis and Marianna Parraga CARACAS (Reuters) - Acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday that Venezuelan authorities have arrested several people suspected of plotting to sabotage one of his campaign rallies before an April 14 election by cutting the power. Both sides have accused the other of dirty tricks during a bitter run-up to the vote to choose the successor to late socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Opinion polls give Maduro a double-digit lead over his opposition rival, Henrique Capriles. "We've captured some of the saboteurs. ... ...

Guatemalan president rejects testimony linking him to war crimes Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:58 PM PDT GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Friday labeled as "a lie" testimony given during the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt that implicated Perez in atrocities carried out by the military during the country's 1960-1996 civil war. Giving evidence at Rios Montt's trial, a former army engineer said on Thursday that Perez commanded soldiers who burned down homes and killed unarmed civilians during a particularly bloody phase of the war. "It's a lie and I'm not going to comment on the lies they're telling," Perez, a retired general, told reporters. ...

Mauritania says holding Canadian linked to suspected militants Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:32 PM PDT By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The North African nation of Mauritania says it has detained a Canadian citizen linked to two other Canadians who died while fighting with militants during an attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria in January. The confirmation that Mauritania is holding the man, Aaron Yoon, follows a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report that, before his arrest, Yoon had studied the Koran there with unidentified Americans and Europeans. ...

Britain says believes "terrorists" planning attacks in Mogadishu Posted: 05 Apr 2013 03:21 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it feared imminent terrorist attacks in the Somali capital Mogadishu, in an update of its advice for travelers to the east African country. Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) already advises against any travel to any part of Somalia. "Our advice makes clear that there continues to be a high threat from terrorism and that the FCO believes that terrorists are in the final stages of planning attacks in Mogadishu," the Foreign Office said in a statement. ...

Italy pardons U.S. pilot convicted in CIA rendition case Posted: 05 Apr 2013 12:34 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president on Friday pardoned a U.S. Air Force officer convicted of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric who was taken away for interrogation on a CIA "rendition" flight. Such covert flights were among the tactics used to wage the "War on Terror" under the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush, after the 9/11 attacks. They have been condemned by human rights groups as a violation of international agreements. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said he had pardoned Colonel Joseph L. ...

Triple suicide triggered by economic struggle shocks Italy Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:34 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - The suicide of a married couple mired in debt has struck a nerve in Italy, with the speaker of the country's lower house of parliament lamenting an "economic emergency" in the land. Romeo Dionisi, 62, and Anna Maria Sopranzi, 68, hanged themselves in a storage room they owned in the town of Civitanova Marche on the Adriatic coast on Friday, police said. After learning of his sister's death, Sopranzi's brother, Giuseppe, 72, threw himself into the sea and drowned. Authorities later recovered his body. ...

At least 36 killed in southwest Nigeria bus crash Posted: 05 Apr 2013 03:49 PM PDT LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An official says at least 36 people have been killed in a bus crash in which a gasoline tanker exploded in southwest Nigeria.

North Korea threats spark buzz on Guam, not panic Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:58 PM PDT HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — C.J. Urquico has lived on Guam for 19 years so he's used to a military backdrop to everyday life. Navy ships visit, Air Force jets fly overhead and war games are played off the Pacific island's shores.

Italy pardons US Air Force officer in CIA case Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:18 PM PDT ROME (AP) — Italy's president on Friday pardoned a U.S. Air Force colonel convicted in absentia by Italian courts in the CIA-conducted abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street in a move he hoped would keep American-Italian relations strong, especially on security matters.

NKorea warns embassies it can't guarantee safety Posted: 05 Apr 2013 11:38 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — North Korea has warned diplomats in Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict and suggested they may want to evacuate their staff, Russia's top diplomat said Friday.

Pyongyang rumblings have little effect on SKoreans Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:19 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Outsiders might hear the opening notes of a war in the deluge of threats and provocations from North Korea, but to South Koreans it is a familiar drumbeat.

Tax haven data leak names names, raises questions Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:01 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — It's a data leak involving tens of thousands of offshore bank accounts, naming dozens of prominent figures around the world. And new details are being released by the day — raising the prospect that accounts based on promises of secrecy and tax shelter could someday offer neither.

Pope seeks decisive action against sex abuse Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:10 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis directed the Vatican on Friday to act decisively on clergy sex abuse cases and punish pedophile priests, saying the Catholic Church's "credibility" was on the line. The announcement was quickly dismissed by some victims' advocates as just more talk, while others lobbying for reform in the church held out hope the new pontiff might challenge the Vatican's bureaucratic culture seen as fostering a cover-up mentality.

Eyeing Syria, White House woos regional rulers Posted: 05 Apr 2013 04:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama meets over the next month with leaders from Mideast and other regional nations, he will have a timely opportunity to try to rally the Syrian opposition's main backers around a unified strategy to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Venezuela's Capriles: Maduro won't last Posted: 05 Apr 2013 03:13 PM PDT MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition presidential candidate says he'll cut off subsidized oil to Cuba, distance his country from nations that disrespect human rights and shore up the South American country's own troubled economy with the billions it now sends abroad to socialist friends.

China kills market birds as flu found in pigeons Posted: 05 Apr 2013 05:00 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — China announced a sixth death from a new bird flu strain Friday, while authorities in Shanghai halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered all poultry at a market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat.

Putin and Merkel set for a prickly Russian-German summit? Posted: 05 Apr 2013 12:06 PM PDT When Russian President Vladimir Putin flies to Germany on Sunday to open this year's Hannover Messe, the world's biggest industrial fair, it will be one of those key milestones – like the upcoming Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Russia's chairmanship of the G-20 this year – that demonstrate to the world that Russia is back as a leading global power and economic force to reckon with. The famous exhibition this year features a Russian theme and a record number of Russian exhibitors.

Victims' groups cool to Pope Francis's first comments on abuse scandal Posted: 05 Apr 2013 11:22 AM PDT Pope Francis called on the Catholic Church to take decisive action against sexually abusive priests, to bring offenders to justice, and to protect children, in his first remarks on an issue that dominated the papacy of his predecessor and is likely to loom large in his own reign.

Iran stance 'puzzles' negotiators after first day of nuclear talks Posted: 05 Apr 2013 11:03 AM PDT Iran nuclear talks with six world powers faced deadlock as they resumed today, when Iran presented a revised set of proposals that were quickly portrayed as inadequate by Western diplomats.

Chilly White North? Canadian government secrecy on the rise Posted: 05 Apr 2013 09:15 AM PDT When Canada enacted its Access to Information Act (AIA) in 1983, it was at the vanguard of the "right to know" movement in modern democracies. For the first time in Canada, citizens were granted the right to see the records produced by their government.

Maasai face eviction from ancestral lands to make way for Dubai hunting firm Posted: 05 Apr 2013 09:08 AM PDT Tanzania announced last week it plans to evict 30,000 Maasai herders from a hefty swath of their ancestral lands in order to create a game reserve offering exclusive access for a Dubai-based hunting company.

Good Reads: Christian Middle East exodus, online ed, drone strikes, and Japan's prisons Posted: 05 Apr 2013 09:01 AM PDT The post-Arab Spring climate in the Middle East has accelerated a "Christian exodus" from the region, says Hassan Mneimneh of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in a piece on RealClearWorld.com. He sees "[t]he fate of the Christians in the Middle East" as "inseparable from the region's transformation into a viable, prosperous, and progressive home for all of its inhabitants."

Blame game intensifies over who could have prevented Argentina's floods Posted: 05 Apr 2013 08:34 AM PDT An army of volunteers sorted through donations of food, bottled water, clothes, and mattresses on the steps of the cathedral in Buenos Aires this morning, just one of many collections destined for the relief effort in La Plata, where floods on Wednesday killed 51 people.

Is furor over football coach's 'fascism' really a sign of Britain's progress? Posted: 05 Apr 2013 08:19 AM PDT After a week of scrutiny in the British press over his political beliefs, the newest coach in England's top-flight soccer league is likely looking forward to turning the page from fascism to football this weekend.

As prospect of North Korea missile launch rises, some question US response to threats Posted: 05 Apr 2013 07:00 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Report: Uneven justice could hurt stability in Ivory Coast Posted: 05 Apr 2013 06:28 AM PDT Impunity for supporters of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara alleged to have committed human rights abuses after the 2010 election here threatens the country's already fragile stability, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week.

How Myanmar's Buddhist-Muslim conflict has reached into Indonesia Posted: 05 Apr 2013 06:11 AM PDT In a severely overcrowded Indonesian detention center, a brawl broke out today between Muslims and Buddhists that left eight of the latter group dead.

A gold rush in Indonesia you've never heard of Posted: 05 Apr 2013 05:21 AM PDT I first became aware of the trouble on Bald Mountain a few days ago.

Bryan Hoddle helps wounded vets run – and dream – again Posted: 05 Apr 2013 05:00 AM PDT Strangely, this is where the inspiring transformation often begins – on a track.

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