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• Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights
• Anxiety builds as Kenyans wait for presidential winner
• U.N. set to crack down on North Korea financing, illicit cargo
• Britain's Cameron says no turning back on deficit reduction plan
• Insight: Iran's Khamenei seen tightening his grip in vote to replace Ahmadinejad
• North Korea blurs lines between prison camps, villages: Amnesty
• U.S. ends kidnapping alert for Peru's Machu Picchu
• China navy seeks to "wear out" Japanese ships in disputed waters
• Monte Paschi's spokesman found dead: sources
• UN says 21 peacekeepers detained on Golan Heights
• Syrian refugees top 1 million, rebels take city
• A day of tears after Chavez death in Venezuela
• Cardinals impose media blackout ahead of conclave
• Court suspends Egypt's parliament election
• EU fines Microsoft $733M for breaking browser pact
• A look at what NKorea vow to scrap armistice means
• Nepal's answer to deadlock: making chief judge PM
• Bolshoi dancer confesses to attack on ballet chief
• Scola reaches youth through Kerouac and McCarthy
• After Chávez, politicians cannot ignore Venezuela's poor
• Hugo Chavez: Global reactions to the Venezuelan leader's death
• Spain hopes for improved ties with post-Chávez Venezuela
• How more than $8 billion in US taxpayers' money went to waste in Iraq
• Why North Korea is turning up the heat again
• Tense wait in Kenya as electronic vote tally fails
• Syrian rebels seize UN peacekeepers in Golan
• For next pope, cardinals want youngish, polyglot MBA-type
• A ballet villain gone bad? Bolshoi dancer accused of planning acid attack
• In some parts of Yemen, 'the free south lives'
• Power of the Catholic Church slipping in Philippines
• Zardozi helps Afghan women stitch together their own businesses
• What is Hugo Chávez's legacy in Venezuela?
• Nearly 1 in 20 Syrians are now refugees
• China agrees to sanction North Korea, but how far will it go?
• To lead Venezuela, Maduro will need to channel his inner Chavez

Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights Posted: 06 Mar 2013 01:30 PM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad's forces pull back from a rebel-held village which has seen heavy recent fighting. The capture was announced in rebel videos posted on the Internet and confirmed on Wednesday by the United Nations, which said about 20 peacekeepers had been detained. The seizure is the most direct threat to U.N. ...

Anxiety builds as Kenyans wait for presidential winner Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:07 PM PST NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan authorities said the outcome of the country's presidential election would not be compromised by the failure of electronic vote counting technology that has delayed results for a third day. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who is due to go on trial for crimes against humanity linked to the violent aftermatch of the last election in 2007, has led since results started trickling in after polls closed on Monday. But some strongholds loyal to his rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga have yet to declare their results. ...

U.N. set to crack down on North Korea financing, illicit cargo Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:09 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In response to North Korea's third nuclear test, the U.N. Security Council is set to tighten financial restrictions on North Korea and crack down on Pyongyang's attempts to ship and receive banned cargo in violation of existing sanctions. The measures are included in a draft sanctions resolution which the United States delivered to the council on Tuesday. The nine-page text was the product of three weeks of negotiations between the United States and China in response to North Korean's third nuclear test on February 12. ...

Britain's Cameron says no turning back on deficit reduction plan Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:16 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will promise on Thursday to stick to his government's deficit reduction plan despite the loss of his country's top-notch AAA credit rating, saying Britain would plunge "back into the abyss" if he changed course. Speaking ahead of a March 20 budget that will be dissected by the markets and ratings agencies alike, Cameron said there were signs his government's economic policies were beginning to work and that it was imperative to "hold firm to the path". ...

Insight: Iran's Khamenei seen tightening his grip in vote to replace Ahmadinejad Posted: 06 Mar 2013 12:48 PM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - The presidential campaign season in Iran this year started with a warning. During a visit to the holy city of Qom in mid-January, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a packed crowd that both internal and external enemies may try to undermine the vote. "Those who may offer general advice about the elections - and it could be out of compassion - that the elections should be like this or that, should take care not to further the goal of the enemy," Khamenei said. "They should take care not to make the people lose faith in the elections. ...

North Korea blurs lines between prison camps, villages: Amnesty Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:05 PM PST GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea has built a huge "security perimeter" around a camp for political prisoners, restricting movement in nearby villages as part of its "general repression" of its people, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The reclusive country's network of political prison camps is believed to hold at least 200,000 people and has been the scene of rapes, torture, executions and slave labor, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in January. Analysis of new satellite images of the area near Camp No. ...

U.S. ends kidnapping alert for Peru's Machu Picchu Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:37 PM PST LIMA (Reuters) - The State Department lifted a kidnapping alert for U.S. citizens traveling to Peru's awesome Machu Picchu ruins and the surrounding Cusco region after a review of the threat, the U.S. embassy said on Wednesday. Last month the U.S. Embassy restricted official travel to Machu Picchu and said it had information that a criminal group was plotting to kidnap U.S. tourists there. ...

China navy seeks to "wear out" Japanese ships in disputed waters Posted: 06 Mar 2013 01:48 PM PST HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy to overwhelm the numerically inferior Japanese forces that must sail out to detect and track the flotillas. A daily stream of bulletins announce ship deployments into the East China Sea, naval combat exercises, the launch of new warships and commentaries calling for resolute defense of Chinese territory. ...

Monte Paschi's spokesman found dead: sources Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:14 PM PST FLORENCE (Reuters) - The spokesman of Monte Paschi di Siena, the Italian bank at the center of an investigation into alleged corruption and fraud, was found dead at the bank's Siena headquarters, a judicial source and a banking source told Reuters on Wednesday. David Rossi was the head of the bank's communications unit. A witness told Reuters that his body, which had been covered with a sheet, lay beneath an open window overlooking a back street outside the building, a restored 14th century fortress. ...

UN says 21 peacekeepers detained on Golan Heights Posted: 06 Mar 2013 03:24 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Armed fighters linked to the Syrian opposition detained 21 U.N. peacekeepers Wednesday in the increasingly volatile zone separating Israeli and Syrian troops on the Golan Heights, a new escalation in the spillover of Syria's civil war.

Syrian refugees top 1 million, rebels take city Posted: 06 Mar 2013 12:45 PM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone Wednesday: The number of U.N.-registered refugees topped 1 million — half of them children — described by an aid worker as a "human river" of thousands spilling out of the war-ravaged country every day.

A day of tears after Chavez death in Venezuela Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:48 PM PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — By the hundreds of thousands, Hugo Chavez's tearful supporters carried their dead president through streets still plastered with his smiling image, an epic farewell to a larger-than-life leader remembered simply as "our commander."

Cardinals impose media blackout ahead of conclave Posted: 06 Mar 2013 02:20 PM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — In the end, American-style transparency was no match for the Vatican's obsession with secrecy.

Court suspends Egypt's parliament election Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:59 AM PST CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in April, opening a legal battle likely to delay the vote and deepening the political crisis between the Islamist president and his opponents that has polarized the nation for months.

EU fines Microsoft $733M for breaking browser pact Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:31 AM PST AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union has fined Microsoft €561 million ($733 million) for breaking a pledge to offer personal computer users a choice of Internet browsers when they install the company's flagship Windows operating system.

A look at what NKorea vow to scrap armistice means Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:43 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 is, at best, a fragile thing: The countries overseeing it have formally accused each other of more than 1.2 million violations.

Nepal's answer to deadlock: making chief judge PM Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:52 PM PST KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's quiet, barely known chief justice is on the verge of taking almost total control of the Himalayan nation, becoming the interim head of government as well as the top judge in a country that has been without a legislature for months.

Bolshoi dancer confesses to attack on ballet chief Posted: 06 Mar 2013 10:42 AM PST MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian ballet star who has danced the roles of violent and powerful historical figures at the Bolshoi Theater has confessed to organizing the acid attack on the theater's ballet chief, Moscow police said Wednesday.

Scola reaches youth through Kerouac and McCarthy Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:00 AM PST VARESE, Italy (AP) — To illustrate that life is a journey, one of the Italian cardinals touted as a favorite to be the next pope doesn't just turn to the Scriptures — but also to Jack Kerouac and Cormac McCarthy.

After Chávez, politicians cannot ignore Venezuela's poor Posted: 06 Mar 2013 02:57 PM PST Many Venezuelans awoke this morning still coming to terms with the loss of their president, Hugo Chávez, and wondering – along with the world – what the future holds for a post-Chávez Venezuela.

Hugo Chavez: Global reactions to the Venezuelan leader's death Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:24 AM PST The death of Latin America's "last caudillo," or strongman, prompted an outpouring of eulogies from supporters, while those who kept cooler relations with the Venezuelan leader expressed hope for a democratic transition of power. Media coverage the world over highlighted the polarized perceptions many administrations and global citizens had of the Chávez administration.

Spain hopes for improved ties with post-Chávez Venezuela Posted: 06 Mar 2013 01:50 PM PST Like most countries, Spain expressed sympathies Wednesday to Venezuelans over the death of President Hugo Chávez. But Mr. Chávez's passing also offers an opportunity to turn the page on Spain's close, but often contentious, relationship with Venezuela – and could even improve Spain's diplomatic and economic ties across South America.

How more than $8 billion in US taxpayers' money went to waste in Iraq Posted: 06 Mar 2013 01:46 PM PST During the course of the nine-year US presence in Iraq, at least $8 billion – or 13.3 percent of US reconstruction spending – was wasted, according to the final report released today by the Special Investigator General for Iraq Reconstruction.

Why North Korea is turning up the heat again Posted: 06 Mar 2013 01:39 PM PST It's been a dramatic week on the Korean Peninsula, culminating with a threat from North Korea to break the 60-year truce with the South and the subsequent terse warning from South Korea's military Wednesday that it would respond to any attack from North Korea with "strong and stern measures."

Tense wait in Kenya as electronic vote tally fails Posted: 06 Mar 2013 12:27 PM PST Counting of ballots from Kenya's contentious presidential election was abandoned and restarted manually Wednesday after an expensive new electronic system failed.

Syrian rebels seize UN peacekeepers in Golan Posted: 06 Mar 2013 10:51 AM PST A convoy of United Nations military observers has been seized by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights, according to a video posted on YouTube today.

For next pope, cardinals want youngish, polyglot MBA-type Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:06 AM PST They troop each day into a hall just a few minutes' walk from St. Peter's Square, passing through a doorway flanked by Swiss Guards in black berets and their distinctive red, yellow, and blue striped uniforms.

A ballet villain gone bad? Bolshoi dancer accused of planning acid attack Posted: 06 Mar 2013 08:56 AM PST Life must have been imitating some of art's darkest visions when a frustrated lead dancer for Moscow's Bolshoi ballet troupe allegedly arranged an acid attack on the prestigious theater's artistic director almost two months ago.

In some parts of Yemen, 'the free south lives' Posted: 06 Mar 2013 08:04 AM PST In Yemen's decaying southern port city of Aden, everpresent graffiti declares "The free south lives."

Power of the Catholic Church slipping in Philippines Posted: 06 Mar 2013 07:31 AM PST As the Vatican commences its Papal Conclave this week in Rome, a test of the Catholic Church's moral and political influence is underway in the Philippines.

Zardozi helps Afghan women stitch together their own businesses Posted: 06 Mar 2013 06:50 AM PST Kamila Haidary is just 24 years old, but she has already given birth to seven children, only four of whom are alive today.

What is Hugo Chávez's legacy in Venezuela? Posted: 06 Mar 2013 05:25 AM PST With the passing of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, a chapter on one of the most controversial modern leaders in Latin America has come to a close.

Nearly 1 in 20 Syrians are now refugees Posted: 06 Mar 2013 05:46 AM PST • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

China agrees to sanction North Korea, but how far will it go? Posted: 06 Mar 2013 05:38 AM PST Increasingly impatient and irritated by North Korea's defiance of its will, China will vote alongside the United States at the United Nations Thursday to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test last month.

To lead Venezuela, Maduro will need to channel his inner Chavez Posted: 05 Mar 2013 03:48 PM PST When Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelans in December to vote for Vice President Nicolas Maduro if Mr. Chavez became too ill to continue in office, the former bus driver and union negotiator was characterized as a committed Chavista, but decidedly more quiet and pragmatic than the boisterous and polarizing leader who was at the helm for the past 14 years.

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