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• Nations close to deal on U.N. arms trade treaty: envoys
• North Korea to cut all channels with South as "war may break out any time"
• Syrian opposition opens first embassy, says world lets it down
• Brazilian doctor charged with 7 murders, may have killed 300: investigator
• Italy politics still stuck as Bersani to face president
• Britain opens inquest into Berezovsky's unexplained death
• Knox case puts spotlight on Italy's dysfunctional legal system
• Egypt could hold delayed election in October: Mursi
• Sanctions noose makes it harder for Japan's Koreans to help their own
• Eritrean man gets 9 years in prison for aiding Somalia's al Shabaab
• Pope reluctant to be pope: What does it mean?
• Officials: Arms shipments rise to Syrian rebels
• Cyprus: cash withdrawals capped at 300 euros
• Knox case puts Italian justice under scrutiny
• Egypt: Divers caught while cutting Internet cable
• Pope Francis forces Argentine political about-face
• Brazilian doctor suspected of killing patients
• North Korea says it has cut last military hotline
• Record-breaking cyberattack hits anti-spam group
• Part of Berlin Wall removed in pre-dawn operation
• Ancient Iraq yields fresh finds for returning archaeologists
• Rest easy, Spain: Your money's safe in a mattress safe
• In tiny Rwanda, staggering health gains set new standard in Africa
• Panera 'pay what you want' chili introduced in St. Louis stores
• In UN arms trade treaty debate, US signature may hinge on Brits
• Bible comes to life as locusts swarm Israel
• Could Ireland's press regulation system work in Britain?
• British papers rebel as UK press regulation moves closer to reality
• As Russian authorities swoop down on NGOs, many wonder who's next
• North Korea turns up volume by silencing final military hotline
• Where are all the shoppers? Curfew shows what base relocation could mean to Okinawa
• China's Michelle Obama? First Lady Peng Lyuan inspires fashion frenzy
• Flares, gunshots, and fires, oh my: The latest South China Sea accusations fly
• Venezuela: Navigating life after Chávez
• Petrocaribe: Paying beans for Venezuelan oil

Nations close to deal on U.N. arms trade treaty: envoys Posted: 27 Mar 2013 04:40 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations members on Wednesday were close to a deal on the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, though delegates and rights groups said India, Iran or others could still block agreement. Arms control campaigners and human rights advocates say one person dies every minute worldwide as a result of armed violence and a treaty is needed to halt the uncontrolled flow of weapons and ammunition that they argue helps fuel wars, atrocities and rights abuses. ...

North Korea to cut all channels with South as "war may break out any time" Posted: 27 Mar 2013 09:43 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at "any moment", it said on Wednesday, days of after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack. The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and to "hostile" military drills under way joining the United States and South Korea. The North has already stopped responding to calls on the hotline to the U.S. ...

Syrian opposition opens first embassy, says world lets it down Posted: 27 Mar 2013 04:11 PM PDT By Yara Bayoumy and Regan Doherty DOHA (Reuters) - A Syrian opposition bloc recognized by the Arab League as the sole representative for Syria opened its first embassy in Qatar on Wednesday in a diplomatic blow to President Bashar al-Assad. But opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib, who took Syria's seat at an Arab summit in Doha on Tuesday, used the ribbon-cutting ceremony to voice his frustration with world powers for failing to do more to help in the two-year-old struggle to topple Assad. ...

Brazilian doctor charged with 7 murders, may have killed 300: investigator Posted: 27 Mar 2013 04:39 PM PDT By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian doctor who was charged with killing seven patients to free up beds at a hospital intensive care unit may have been responsible for as many as 300 deaths, according to a Health Ministry investigator. Prosecutors said Dr. Virginia Soares de Souza and her medical team administered muscle relaxing drugs to patients, then reduced their oxygen supply, causing them to die of asphyxia at the Evangelical Hospital in the southern city of Curitiba. ...

Italy politics still stuck as Bersani to face president Posted: 27 Mar 2013 01:51 PM PDT By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Italian center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani was left on Wednesday with only slim hope of forming a government after talks with rival party leaders ended with rejection from Beppe Grillo's 5-Star Movement. Bersani said he would report back to President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday and called on all parties to "accept their responsibilities" and allow a government to be formed. ...

Britain opens inquest into Berezovsky's unexplained death Posted: 27 Mar 2013 04:55 PM PDT By Maria Golovnina LONDON (Reuters) - Britain opens a judicial inquiry into the death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on Thursday to establish how he died in the locked bathroom of his vast mansion near London. Berezovsky, who survived years of intrigue, power struggles and assassination attempts in Russia, was found dead on Saturday in his home in Ascot, a town close to Queen Elizabeth's Windsor Castle. Police said there was no sign of a struggle and the 67-year-old's death was "consistent with hanging", suggesting he might have killed himself. ...

Knox case puts spotlight on Italy's dysfunctional legal system Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:05 AM PDT By Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) - The decision to order a retrial of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of her British housemate has put the spotlight back on Italy's courts, where years of legal process often fail to uncover the truth. Knox and the family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher said they hoped the case would finally be solved after Italy's highest court on Tuesday ordered a retrial for the 2007 murder in the Umbrian hill town of Perugia. ...

Egypt could hold delayed election in October: Mursi Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:53 PM PDT By Tom Perry and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said on Wednesday parliamentary elections could be delayed until October, a postponement which could give his cash-strapped administration breathing space to negotiate an IMF deal. Mursi's original plan was for a four-stage election that would start in late April and put a parliament in place by July. But the schedule fell apart this month when a court canceled the presidential decree setting the dates. "Perhaps the elections will be held in the coming October," state news agency MENA quoted Mursi as saying. ...

Sanctions noose makes it harder for Japan's Koreans to help their own Posted: 27 Mar 2013 03:57 PM PDT By Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - When the now elderly man left Japan on a Soviet ship in 1960 for North Korea, he thought he was headed to the promised land. In reality, he survived 47 years there thanks only to $1 million in support from his half-brother in Japan. The man's Korean-born parents decided to migrate to North Korea when he was a teenager, lured by the promise of free education and healthcare in a country that at the time was richer than South Korea in the wake of the 1950-53 Korean War. ...

Eritrean man gets 9 years in prison for aiding Somalia's al Shabaab Posted: 27 Mar 2013 04:18 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Eritrean man who admitted to having ties to the al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab was sentenced on Wednesday to 9-1/4 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said. Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed pleaded guilty in June to conspiring to provide material support to al Shabaab, and to conspiring to receive military-type training from the group. Ahmed, 38, was arrested in Nigeria in November 2009 and brought to Manhattan federal court to face U.S. terrorism charges in March 2010. He is an Eritrean national and a permanent resident of Sweden. ...

Pope reluctant to be pope: What does it mean? Posted: 27 Mar 2013 03:32 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — He still goes by "Bergoglio" when speaking to friends, seems reluctant to call himself pope and has decided to live in the Vatican hotel rather than the grand papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace.

Officials: Arms shipments rise to Syrian rebels Posted: 27 Mar 2013 03:40 PM PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Mideast powers opposed to President Bashar Assad have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S. in preparation for a push on the capital of Damascus, officials and Western military experts said Wednesday.

Cyprus: cash withdrawals capped at 300 euros Posted: 27 Mar 2013 01:51 PM PDT NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Banks in Cyprus are to open for the first time in more than a week on Thursday, operating for six hours from noon (10:00 GMT), but restrictions will be in place on financial transactions to prevent people from draining their accounts.

Knox case puts Italian justice under scrutiny Posted: 27 Mar 2013 05:12 AM PDT ROME (AP) — When crooked American financier Bernie Madoff was sentenced in New York, the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published a front-page cartoon mocking Italy's trial system.

Egypt: Divers caught while cutting Internet cable Posted: 27 Mar 2013 04:13 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's naval forces captured three scuba divers who were trying to cut an undersea Internet cable in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Telecommunications executives meanwhile blamed a weeklong Internet slowdown on damage caused to another cable by a ship.

Pope Francis forces Argentine political about-face Posted: 27 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PDT BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Catholic doctrine considers the pope to be God's delegate on Earth. That alone might explain the remarkable about-face that Argentina's populist president Cristina Fernandez and most of her followers have managed to pull off in the days since the cardinal she treated as a political arch-enemy became Pope Francis.

Brazilian doctor suspected of killing patients Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:57 PM PDT SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's health ministry says a doctor is suspected of killing seven terminally ill patients in a southern Brazilian hospital.

North Korea says it has cut last military hotline Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:59 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea cut its last military hotline with Seoul on Wednesday, saying there was no need to continue military communications between the countries in a situation "where a war may break out at any moment."

Record-breaking cyberattack hits anti-spam group Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:30 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — A record-breaking cyberattack targeting an anti-spam watchdog group has sent ripples of disruption coursing across the Web, experts said Wednesday.

Part of Berlin Wall removed in pre-dawn operation Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:50 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — For nearly 30 years, the Berlin Wall was the hated symbol of the division of Europe, a gray, concrete mass that snaked through neighborhoods, separating families and friends. On Wednesday, it took hundreds of police to guarantee the safe removal of 15 feet (less than 5 meters) of what's left of the wall.

Ancient Iraq yields fresh finds for returning archaeologists Posted: 27 Mar 2013 01:14 PM PDT British archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown palace or temple near the ancient city of Ur in the first foreign excavation at the site in southern Iraq since the 1930s.

Rest easy, Spain: Your money's safe in a mattress safe Posted: 27 Mar 2013 01:09 PM PDT Europeans have tossed and turned at night since the continent's sovereign debt crisis began three years ago. Right now it's the Cypriots, surprised earlier this month by an announcement that some personal bank accounts could be taxed in order to raise the needed contribution for a bailout.

In tiny Rwanda, staggering health gains set new standard in Africa Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:51 PM PDT When Agnes Binagwaho began her career as a doctor in the slums of Kigali, Rwanda, in 1996, she worked in one of the most precarious health environments in the world.

Panera 'pay what you want' chili introduced in St. Louis stores Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:47 PM PDT Panera is mostly known for its bread bowls, but the café chain is making another name for itself in the arena of hunger awareness.

In UN arms trade treaty debate, US signature may hinge on Brits Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:13 PM PDT As the UN approaches its final day of talks over a comprehensive global treaty to regulate the $70 billion international conventional arms trade, several major stumbling blocks remain. One of those has been opposition from the US, whose domestic gun lobby and major share of global arms exports push against restrictions on weapons sales.

Bible comes to life as locusts swarm Israel Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:03 PM PDT Locusts have descended on Israel this week, just in time for Passover. As millions of Jews commemorate the story of the children of Israel's exodus from Egypt, including the 10 plagues that afflicted Pharaoh and his people, millions of the crunchy buggers are creeping all over Israel's southern deserts.

Could Ireland's press regulation system work in Britain? Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:40 AM PDT With the British government moving ahead on a new media regulator and the UK press in revolt against, some in the country wonder if their neighbors to the west could offer a solution. Could Ireland's model of an official Press Council and ombudsman work in Britain?

British papers rebel as UK press regulation moves closer to reality Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:41 AM PDT It is meant to be the solution to the British media scandal of the decade.

As Russian authorities swoop down on NGOs, many wonder who's next Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:14 AM PDT Russian authorities have raided hundreds of nongovernmental organizations around the country this week, seizing documents and interrogating staff.

North Korea turns up volume by silencing final military hotline Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:00 AM PDT North Korea's edgy game of war talk continued at ever higher volumes today with the announcement that it will cut off the last military hotline with South Korea.

Where are all the shoppers? Curfew shows what base relocation could mean to Okinawa Posted: 27 Mar 2013 08:23 AM PDT A bustling shopping district outside one of the biggest and most controversial US military bases on Okinawa has become a ghost town.

China's Michelle Obama? First Lady Peng Lyuan inspires fashion frenzy Posted: 27 Mar 2013 05:45 AM PDT If you want to make a killing on the stock market, here's an unusual tip: Identify the fashion house behind the clothes that Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan is wearing at her next public appearance and buy shares in that company, fast.

Flares, gunshots, and fires, oh my: The latest South China Sea accusations fly Posted: 27 Mar 2013 05:38 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Venezuela: Navigating life after Chávez Posted: 27 Mar 2013 05:27 AM PDT Venezuela's seasonal downpours used to open a small river that flowed through Amada Quintana's dirt-floor house perched on a hillside slum here. But President Hugo Chávez fixed that. Workers from one of his poverty-fighting Bolivarian Missions came to her home, poured concrete floors, attached a sturdy roof, and rebuilt cracked walls.

Petrocaribe: Paying beans for Venezuelan oil Posted: 27 Mar 2013 05:26 AM PDT Each day, the oil refinery here pumps out the gas and petroleum products that bolster this Caribbean country's tourism-based economy – thanks to Venezuela.

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