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• North Korea to restart nuclear reactor in weapons bid
• U.N. overwhelmingly approves global arms trade treaty
• Armed men attack Baghdad newspaper offices over story on cleric
• Insight: In Malaysia's election, a focus on rainforest graft
• Israel launches air strikes on Gaza; first since truce
• Serbia, Kosovo fail to reach deal to improve ties
• At Chavez's birthplace, Maduro vows to win Venezuela vote
• Mandela's condition unchanged, no deterioration: presidency
• Islamists accuse U.S. of interference in Egyptian affairs
• Most young Pakistanis pessimistic as economy struggles: survey
• North Korea vows to restart nuclear facilities
• UN adopts treaty to regulate global arms trade
• Serbia, Kosovo talks fail to reach accord
• Syrian, Iraqi jihadi groups said to be cooperating
• Rape, kidnap of tourists feed Rio safety fears
• Egypt steps up campaign against TV satirist
• Gunmen raid 4 newspaper offices in Baghdad
• UK minister asked to make good on welfare pledge
• Prosecutors file murder charges in Brazil fire
• Euro area unemployment at record 12 percent
• Palestinian anger builds as another prisoner dies on Israel's watch
• At a West Bank seder, Jews commemorate a modern quest for freedom
• Double standard emerges in Brazil bus gang rape investigation
• Does Sweden have a racial profiling problem?
• Did members of the Indonesian military storm a prison, murder inmates?
• Portugal spats jeopardize economic improvement in Europe's shaky south
• Is North Korea on a 'collision' course with vow to restart nuclear reactor?
• In Indonesia, and Southeast Asia, the return of optimism – and the bankers.
• Sudan's Bashir starts freeing prisoners, polishing up legacy
• Colombia: Activist deaths and postponed peacetalks highlight struggle over land
• Is Putin trading his own party for a new power base?
• Could China and Japan see a spring thaw in relations?
• Why Caroline Kennedy is likely to get a warm welcome in Japan
• Myanmar fire kills 13 Muslim students, adding to Buddhist-Muslim tensions
• A 'like' for linguistics: Can social media save Mexico's unwritten languages?

North Korea to restart nuclear reactor in weapons bid Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:22 PM PDT By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it would revive a mothballed nuclear reactor able to produce bomb-grade plutonium but stressed it was seeking a deterrent capacity and did not repeat recent threats to attack South Korea and the United States. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the crisis over North Korea had gone too far and he appealed for dialogue and negotiation to resolve the situation. "Nuclear threats are not a game. ...

U.N. overwhelmingly approves global arms trade treaty Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:54 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the first treaty on the global arms trade, which seeks to regulate the $70 billion business in conventional arms and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers. The official U.N. tally showed 154 votes in favor, 3 against and 23 abstentions, though diplomats and U.N. officials said the actual vote was 155-3-22 due to Angola being recorded as having abstained and not voting yes. ...

Armed men attack Baghdad newspaper offices over story on cleric Posted: 02 Apr 2013 11:25 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Men armed with pistols, knives and steel pipes stormed into three Baghdad newspaper offices, beating employees and smashing computers after publication of an article about a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, police and editors said on Tuesday. Monday's attacks illustrated the stubborn influence of hardline Islamist militias in Iraq, where Sunni and Shi'ite insurgents often imposed their own fundamentalist vision on the streets during the height of sectarian war a few years ago. ...

Insight: In Malaysia's election, a focus on rainforest graft Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:05 PM PDT By Niluksi Koswanage KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (Reuters) - The island of Borneo may be all that stands between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and an unprecedented election defeat within weeks for his ruling coalition. Borneo's two Malaysian states -- Sabah and Sarawak -- have been a bastion of votes for the National Front coalition headed by Najib's party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). ...

Israel launches air strikes on Gaza; first since truce Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:59 PM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attacks since an eight-day war in November, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that controls the territory, and Israel's military said. "Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza, there were no wounded," a statement from the Hamas Interior Ministry said. ...

Serbia, Kosovo fail to reach deal to improve ties Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:11 PM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Serbia and Kosovo failed to reach a deal on improving ties that is seen as crucial to Serbia's hopes of joining the European Union, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Wednesday. Ashton, who has been mediating in the talks, said in a statement that the gap between the two sides was "very narrow, but deep." She said the 12-hour negotiating session in Brussels was the last time all sides would meet formally for the EU-brokered talks. ...

At Chavez's birthplace, Maduro vows to win Venezuela vote Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:18 PM PDT By Brian Ellsworth and Mario Naranjo SABANETA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan acting President Nicolas Maduro made a pilgrimage to late socialist leader Hugo Chavez's birthplace on Tuesday and pledged to win the April 14 election in his honor. "We regard Chavez as our father. He marked our life, that's why we came here to make an oath in the land of his birth that we will never let him down," Maduro, 50, said in the village of Sabaneta where his former boss was born. ...

Mandela's condition unchanged, no deterioration: presidency Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:17 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition has not changed after a weekend improvement, the government said on Tuesday, and it denied media reports suggesting the anti-apartheid hero had suffered a relapse in his pneumonia. "His condition is unchanged as reported yesterday," presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj told Reuters. ...

Islamists accuse U.S. of interference in Egyptian affairs Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:44 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - President Mohamed Mursi's Islamist allies accused the United States on Tuesday of blatant interference in Egypt's affairs after Washington said Cairo was muzzling freedom of speech. On Monday, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland criticized the questioning of the most popular Egyptian television satirist over allegations that he insulted Mursi and Islam. ...

Most young Pakistanis pessimistic as economy struggles: survey Posted: 02 Apr 2013 12:04 PM PDT By Michael Georgy ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Nearly 100 percent of young Pakistanis are pessimistic about the future and believe their country is headed in the wrong direction, a survey released on Wednesday found. A British Council study, entitled "Next Generation Goes to The Ballot Box", also showed that only one in five young adults expect their economic situation to improve over the next year. The findings make for disturbing reading for politicians who are trying to win over Pakistanis ahead of a May 11 general election. ...

North Korea vows to restart nuclear facilities Posted: 02 Apr 2013 02:56 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Tuesday it will restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material, in what outsiders see as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war.

UN adopts treaty to regulate global arms trade Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:24 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Tuesday, after a more than decade-long campaign to keep weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, warlords, organized crime figures and human rights violators.

Serbia, Kosovo talks fail to reach accord Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:15 PM PDT BRUSSELS (AP) — Marathon EU-mediated talks between the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have broken up without a deal, the participants said early Wednesday.

Syrian, Iraqi jihadi groups said to be cooperating Posted: 02 Apr 2013 02:02 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — The wounded Syrian government troops were returning to their country in trucks escorted by Iraqi soldiers. They'd almost reached the border, near the frontier town of Akashat, when the attackers struck.

Rape, kidnap of tourists feed Rio safety fears Posted: 02 Apr 2013 02:20 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A night on the town turned into a six-hour-long nightmare after an American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transit van while her handcuffed French boyfriend looked on helplessly, in an incident that's shocked this resort city as it gears up to host next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

Egypt steps up campaign against TV satirist Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:11 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities on Tuesday stepped up a campaign against a popular TV comedian accused of insulting the president, threatening to revoke the license of a private TV station that airs his weekly program and angrily dismissing U.S. criticism of legal proceedings against him.

Gunmen raid 4 newspaper offices in Baghdad Posted: 02 Apr 2013 01:13 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen suspected of being Shiite militiamen burst into the offices of four independent newspapers in Baghdad, smashing their equipment, stabbing and beating employees, and even hurling one reporter from a roof in the most brazen attack against journalists in Iraq this year, said staff and officials on Tuesday.

UK minister asked to make good on welfare pledge Posted: 02 Apr 2013 02:04 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — A British government minister is being asked to put his money where his mouth is.

Prosecutors file murder charges in Brazil fire Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:53 PM PDT SAO PAULO (AP) — Eight people have been charged in connection with the deadly nightclub fire in southern Brazil that killed 241 people earlier this year, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Euro area unemployment at record 12 percent Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:23 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — The eurozone economy has passed another bleak milestone.

Palestinian anger builds as another prisoner dies on Israel's watch Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:06 PM PDT The death of a Palestinian prisoner today – the second in just over a month – sparked a rare protest by Hamas's armed wing, rocket fire into Israel, and an outbreak of prisoner riots at several Israeli jails.

At a West Bank seder, Jews commemorate a modern quest for freedom Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:00 PM PDT The seder plate on the table is traditional – matzah, sweet charoset, a simple hard-boiled egg – but its location in an apartment in the de facto West Bank capital is not.

Double standard emerges in Brazil bus gang rape investigation Posted: 02 Apr 2013 02:56 PM PDT When two foreigners reported on early Saturday morning that they had been held hostage for nearly six hours in a van the night before – while the drivers gang-raped the young American woman and beat her French male companion with an iron bar – the Tourist Police rushed into action.

Does Sweden have a racial profiling problem? Posted: 02 Apr 2013 02:44 PM PDT A recent campaign by Stockholm police to crack down on illegal immigrants by racial profiling at the city's subway turnstiles has formed the backdrop to a reignited debate about racism, as Sweden struggles to match a welcoming refugee policy with the task of deporting those who are refused.

Did members of the Indonesian military storm a prison, murder inmates? Posted: 02 Apr 2013 12:47 PM PDT On March 23, a group of 17 focused, heavily-armed men broke into an Indonesian prison in the Central Javanese city of Yogykarta and with minimal interference from the guards there, identified and executed four of the inmates.

Portugal spats jeopardize economic improvement in Europe's shaky south Posted: 02 Apr 2013 12:40 PM PDT With Europe's economy on edge, Portugal is doing its homework, cutting the deficit, and rebooting the economy.

Is North Korea on a 'collision' course with vow to restart nuclear reactor? Posted: 02 Apr 2013 12:20 PM PDT North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continued what has become a daily effort to raise tensions and fears abroad, and to consolidate patriotic ardor and unity at home, by saying he plans to restart an old nuclear reactor that can produce plutonium used in the creation of nuclear weapons.

In Indonesia, and Southeast Asia, the return of optimism – and the bankers. Posted: 02 Apr 2013 12:07 PM PDT I changed flights coming to Indonesia in Seoul a few days ago, at the airline picked up the regional edition of the International Herald Tribune on my stop. I went through it on the last leg of my flight, reading the business pages with particular interest. It was déjà vu, all over again.

Sudan's Bashir starts freeing prisoners, polishing up legacy Posted: 02 Apr 2013 11:55 AM PDT In a surprise move, Sudan's president Omar Al Bashir announced this week he will release all political prisoners and launch talks with opposition groups. Today his government freed seven opposition activists held without charge for three months.

Colombia: Activist deaths and postponed peacetalks highlight struggle over land Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:21 AM PDT At least two peasant leaders in Colombia have been murdered in the past several weeks, heightening concerns about the security of opposition figures and human rights defenders as the government and leftist rebels try to negotiate an end to the country's nearly 50-year-old internal conflict.

Is Putin trading his own party for a new power base? Posted: 02 Apr 2013 09:43 AM PDT President Vladimir Putin is moving to redesign Russia's political system by shouldering aside the ruling party that has anchored his power for the past dozen years and creating a new, East German-style Popular Front of all Russians, which would stand above political parties and be led by him personally.

Could China and Japan see a spring thaw in relations? Posted: 02 Apr 2013 06:36 AM PDT The first shoots of a possible spring thaw in China's relations with Japan are sprouting after more than six frosty months of a territorial dispute that has pushed the two Asian neighbors to the brink of military confrontation.

Why Caroline Kennedy is likely to get a warm welcome in Japan Posted: 02 Apr 2013 06:04 AM PDT Despite a lack of experience in foreign policy, or any other kind of politics, Caroline Kennedy looks set to receive a warm reception in Japan if her appointment as the next US ambassador to the country is confirmed.

Myanmar fire kills 13 Muslim students, adding to Buddhist-Muslim tensions Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:48 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

A 'like' for linguistics: Can social media save Mexico's unwritten languages? Posted: 01 Apr 2013 02:02 PM PDT When Hilaria Cruz chats online in Texas with friends back home in Mexico, she switches effortlessly between two languages: Spanish and her native Chatino.

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