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• "Iron Lady" Thatcher mourned, but critics speak out
• West sees enough substance for Iran talks to continue
• Insight: The backroom battle delaying reform of China's one-child policy
• U.S. envoy says must fight mistrust for Middle East peace
• Kenya to swear in president, leave West with headache
• Serbia rejects Kosovo deal, begs EU for more time
• Venezuela's Maduro vows to battle corruption
• Body found in landing gear of plane at Paris airport
• Sudanese journalists protest against editor's dismissal
• Bin Laden son-in-law lawyers may seek to move trial out of NYC
• Thatcher, even in death, divides world opinion
• Thatcher had profound effect on popular culture
• In slap at South, NKorea suspends work at factory
• Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15
• UN whistleblower asks US to withhold UN payments
• Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes
• Pain bites into Portuguese life as crisis deepens
• Israel honors 6 million victims of Nazi Holocaust
• Al-Qaida denies its No. 2 in Yemen was killed
• After violence, Egypt opposition presses Morsi
• Falklands loom large in Argentine view of Thatcher
• Margaret Thatcher: the divisive creator of modern Britain
• At #Thatcher, no halfhearted tweets on Iron Lady's legacy
• Is Indonesia finally going after its feared special forces unit?
• Hasta luego, Mexico: The Monitor's Latin America bureau chief signs off
• Margaret Thatcher leaves mixed legacy in Ireland
• Why is North Korea's Kaesong industrial park closing?
• Cyber attack on Israel falls short of promised havoc
• Chile's Pablo Neruda: from Nobel laureate to center of suspected murder plot
• North Korea suspends last major project with South Korea
• China's Xi signals limited shift away from North Korea
• Mr. Kerry, how do you ask a woman to be the last to die in Afghanistan?

"Iron Lady" Thatcher mourned, but critics speak out Posted: 08 Apr 2013 03:32 PM PDT By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and admirers worldwide are mourning Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, as the "Iron Lady" who rolled back the state and faced down her enemies during 11 years as Britain's first woman prime minister. Her impact on the 1980s was such that opponents, including Labour's Tony Blair and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, led tributes to a legacy that radically transformed the British economy along free-market lines now widely taken for granted and includes her role in the peaceful end to the Cold War. But while U.S. ...

West sees enough substance for Iran talks to continue Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:24 PM PDT By Justyna Pawlak BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World powers believe there are enough grounds to keep talking to Iran about its disputed nuclear program, a senior Western diplomat said on Monday, even though the latest round of negotiations made little apparent progress. "There is enough substance for these negotiations to continue," the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters. "I would not expect a breakdown. ...

Insight: The backroom battle delaying reform of China's one-child policy Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:55 PM PDT By Sui-Lee Wee and Hui Li BEIJING (Reuters) - Two retired senior Chinese officials are engaged in a battle with one another to sway Beijing's new leadership over the future of the one-child policy, exposing divisions that have impeded progress in a crucial area of reform. The policy, introduced in the late 1970s to prevent population growth spiraling out of control, has long been opposed by human rights and religious groups but is also now regarded by many experts as outdated and harmful to the economy. ...

U.S. envoy says must fight mistrust for Middle East peace Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:48 PM PDT By Arshad Mohammed JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he is trying to break down mistrust on both sides of the "festering" conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and would not rush into a new peace process. Making his third visit to the region in less than three weeks, Kerry met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday night had dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night. "I am intensely focused on this issue ... ...

Kenya to swear in president, leave West with headache Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:00 PM PDT By Edmund Blair NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya swears in Uhuru Kenyatta as president on Tuesday after an election that avoided the bloodshed of five years ago, but left Western nations with the challenge of how to deal with a leader indicted by the International Criminal Court. Western states regard Kenya as crucial to regional stability and have supported the role played by Kenyan and other African troops in efforts to push back al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist militants in neighboring Somalia. ...

Serbia rejects Kosovo deal, begs EU for more time Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:50 PM PDT By Aleksandar Vasovic and Matt Robinson BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia rejected a European Union-brokered plan on Monday to tackle the ethnic partition of its former province Kosovo, a move that could hurt Belgrade's hopes of starting membership talks with the bloc. But the coalition government called for the "urgent" continuation of negotiations to reach an accord, with the EU set to consider this month whether to recommend the start of accession talks with Serbia. ...

Venezuela's Maduro vows to battle corruption Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:26 PM PDT By Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed on Monday to stamp out corruption following days of accusations by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles that ruling party officials were plundering the country's oil wealth. Corruption has been a perennial problem in Venezuela and was a primary campaign issue for the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez when he was first elected in 1998. His death from cancer last month triggered the April 14 election. ...

Body found in landing gear of plane at Paris airport Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:28 PM PDT YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A body was discovered in the landing gear of a plane belonging to Cameroon air transport company CAMAIRCO after it landed at Paris' Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Monday, an airline official said. "The man, about 30 years old, probably sneaked into our plane to go to France before it took off from Douala airport. We don't know," CAMAIRCO's commercial director, Christian Perchat, told Reuters by telephone. Security forces discovered the body in the landing gear after the plane landed at the Paris airport, he said. An investigation was under way. ...

Sudanese journalists protest against editor's dismissal Posted: 08 Apr 2013 03:51 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Dozens of journalists and Sudan's national press body protested against the dismissal of the editor of one of the country's biggest independent newspapers by the security service, staging a rare challenge to the dominant security apparatus. On Thursday, Al-Nour Ahmed al-Nour, editor of al-Sahafa newspaper, said security agents came to his office to order him to leave his job after accusing him of insulting one of their colleagues. Nour has stopped working since then, and the newspaper, one of Sudan's oldest, has removed his name from the masthead. ...

Bin Laden son-in-law lawyers may seek to move trial out of NYC Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:37 PM PDT By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden said on Monday that he may try to move his client's trial out of New York, saying he was concerned about having the proceedings in the city that saw the greatest destruction from the attacks of September 11, 2001. Suleiman Abu Ghaith's attorneys said at a federal court hearing in Manhattan that they are considering a request for change of venue. Martin Cohen, one of the defense attorneys, said after the hearing that the concern stems from the potential "prejudicial nature" of having a trial in New York. ...

Thatcher, even in death, divides world opinion Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:23 PM PDT Combative and determined to get her way, Margaret Thatcher divided opinion down the middle in life — and in death.

Thatcher had profound effect on popular culture Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:24 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Margaret Thatcher was not just a political titan, she was a cultural icon — skewered by comedians, transformed into a puppet and played to Oscar-winning perfection by Meryl Streep.

In slap at South, NKorea suspends work at factory Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:57 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it will suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, pulling out more than 53,000 North Korean workers and moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate.

Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15 Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:46 PM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and incinerating cars and trees in the neighborhood.

UN whistleblower asks US to withhold UN payments Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:52 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A United Nations whistleblower who won his case alleging corruption in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo but received only 2 percent of the $2.2 million he sought in damages and costs asked the U.S. government Monday to withhold 15 percent of its payments to the global organization.

Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:38 AM PDT TOKYO (AP) — It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile that could reach the Pacific island of Guam, let alone the mainland U.S.

Pain bites into Portuguese life as crisis deepens Posted: 08 Apr 2013 06:43 AM PDT LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Serving a frugal lunch in their kitchen not much bigger than a bathroom, Pedro and Elena Baptista spoon stewed chicken feet onto their boiled potatoes and leave the slightly meatier wings for their 12-year-old daughter, Vania, and 7-year-old son, Joao.

Israel honors 6 million victims of Nazi Holocaust Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:42 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Among the crowds marking Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day at the Yad Vashem memorial Monday was a retired American Air Force colonel from San Francisco who came to honor a family he never knew.

Al-Qaida denies its No. 2 in Yemen was killed Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:20 PM PDT SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida in Yemen posted a statement on militant websites Monday saying that its second-most senior commander has not been killed. It was the second time the group has denied Saeed al-Shihri's death.

After violence, Egypt opposition presses Morsi Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:24 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — After Egypt's worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt's leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday called on the Islamist president to make serious concessions to bring the opposition into decision-making, saying national reconciliation is the only way out of the country's myriad problems.

Falklands loom large in Argentine view of Thatcher Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:25 PM PDT Margaret Thatcher, who died today at the age of 87, was a hugely divisive figure in Britain. Supporters say her free-market policies brought the country economic prosperity while critics despise her for closing coal mines, forcing people out of work, and eroding the welfare state. In Argentina, however, there is a consensus: Mrs. Thatcher is loathed.

Margaret Thatcher: the divisive creator of modern Britain Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:44 PM PDT Loved and loathed in equal measure, Margaret Thatcher was one of Britain's most divisive leaders of the last century, when the country's left and right battled for the soul of modern politics.

At #Thatcher, no halfhearted tweets on Iron Lady's legacy Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:45 AM PDT Irreverent, brisk, and decisive.

Is Indonesia finally going after its feared special forces unit? Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:47 AM PDT Indonesia has been giving off signals that it may clean up its Special Forces unit (Kopassus) after some of its members raided a prison in Central Java last month to murder four inmates.

Hasta luego, Mexico: The Monitor's Latin America bureau chief signs off Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:38 AM PDT Editor's note: The Monitor's Sara Miller Llana finds that a farewell letter is the best tribute to the one constant in her years of reporting from Mexico.

Margaret Thatcher leaves mixed legacy in Ireland Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:46 AM PDT The legacy of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher isn't confined to the United Kingdom. Leader of the country from 1979 to 1990, she launched the Falklands war against Argentina to reclaim the south Atlantic islands, railed against the European Union, and, standing beside Ronald Reagan, sought to undermine the Soviet Union.

Why is North Korea's Kaesong industrial park closing? Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:39 AM PDT On Monday, North Korea announced it would pull its workers from the Kaesong Industrial Complex, sounding a possible death knell for the main symbol of hope for inter-Korean cooperation.

Cyber attack on Israel falls short of promised havoc Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:04 AM PDT A much-hyped cyber attack on Israeli websites yesterday caused some disruption, but fell well short of hackers' promise to "wipe Israel off the map of the Internet" and certainly did not turn out to be the "largest Internet battle in the history of mankind."

Chile's Pablo Neruda: from Nobel laureate to center of suspected murder plot Posted: 08 Apr 2013 07:45 AM PDT When Pablo Neruda died in 1973, the bookish boy from a sleepy town in southern Chile had already played many roles. He was a Nobel laureate in literature. A diplomat to Spain, France, and Burma (today Myanmar). A senator who fled his homeland on horseback when his Communist Party was banned, and later a presidential candidate. A husband to two women, a father to a daughter.

North Korea suspends last major project with South Korea Posted: 08 Apr 2013 05:44 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

China's Xi signals limited shift away from North Korea Posted: 08 Apr 2013 05:24 AM PDT For once, Washington and Beijing are on the same side. Both the United States and China have lost patience with North Korea's intensifying threats of war, and both fear that a misstep could spell disaster.

Mr. Kerry, how do you ask a woman to be the last to die in Afghanistan? Posted: 07 Apr 2013 02:15 PM PDT Once again, history thrust John Kerry today in front of microphones to speak about American youths who are cut down in the waning days of an unpopular war.

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