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• Quake hits near Iran's nuclear city Bushehr, 37 dead
• North Korea warns foreigners to leave South amid new threats of war
• North Korea's peasant army gets ready to farm, not wage war
• Trial of bin Laden's son-in-law set for January in New York City
• Italy's Bersani meets Berlusconi to seek end to impasse
• Rios Montt's defense seeks to clear ex-Guatemalan dictator
• Sudan's army says kills 15 rebels, retakes part of South Darfur
• Libya arms fueling conflicts in Syria, Mali and beyond: U.N. experts
• Chile presidential favorite Bachelet eyes major tax reform
• Paraguay election hopeful plans to issue debt for infrastructure
• No sense of panic in NKorean capital
• Cuba to turn over Florida couple and children
• Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq
• Man kills 13 people in Serbian shooting rampage
• Paris exhibit asks: Was there an Italian Monet?
• Egypt's pope sharply criticizes president
• Afghan women in Kabul prison over 'moral' crimes
• Egypt's revolutionary cleric suspended over sermon
• 10-year anniversary of Baghdad fall to US forces
• Yugoslav wars left population heavily armed
• In Gaza, a dream of sailboats meets land's limited horizons
• South Korean politician asks Seoul to consider nuclear capability
• Tens of thousands march for peace in Colombia after decades of conflict
• On 10-year anniversary of Baghdad's fall, Iraqis remain torn
• Welcome to The Olive Press
• Does a Star Wars palace in Italy need the army to protect it?
• Iran's 'axis of resistance' loses its Palestinian arm to Syrian war
• The Britain that Margaret Thatcher inherited
• Heavy metal, Islamist politics, and democracy in Indonesia
• In Lebanon, a doctor offers comfort and healing to refugees from neighboring wars
• In Mali, a war ends but instability lingers
• Mali's separatist Tuaregs cling to dream
• Nuclear war on the Korean peninsula? North Korea warns foreigners to leave.

Quake hits near Iran's nuclear city Bushehr, 37 dead Posted: 09 Apr 2013 03:40 PM PDT By Yeganeh Torbati and Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck close to Iran's only nuclear power station on Tuesday, killing 37 people and injuring 850 as it destroyed homes and devastated two small villages, Iranian media reported. The 6.3 magnitude quake totally destroyed one village, a Red Crescent official told the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA), but the nearby Bushehr nuclear plant was undamaged, according to Iranian officials and the Russian company that built it. ...

North Korea warns foreigners to leave South amid new threats of war Posted: 09 Apr 2013 02:14 PM PDT By Christine Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into "thermonuclear war". The North's latest message belied an atmosphere free of anxiety in the South Korean capital, where the city center was bustling with traffic and offices operated normally. Pyongyang has shown no sign of preparing its 1. ...

North Korea's peasant army gets ready to farm, not wage war Posted: 09 Apr 2013 03:28 PM PDT By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - As a North Korean army signaler near the tense sea border with the South, Lee So-yeon was given live ammunition and a steel helmet during a 1993 crisis, but soon found herself back doing what she and her comrades did most - farming. It's a vital service in a country where millions cannot find enough to eat. That crisis 20 years ago - Pyongyang announced it was quitting a global nuclear pact - eventually passed. ...

Trial of bin Laden's son-in-law set for January in New York City Posted: 09 Apr 2013 03:35 PM PDT By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal trial for a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden accused of conspiring to kill Americans will begin in January in Manhattan, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, who acted as an al Qaeda spokesman in videos, is one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda figures to face trial in the United States for crimes related to the September 11 attacks. He was captured in Jordan on February 28 and brought secretly to the United States by the FBI on March 1. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Tuesday that the trial should begin on January 7, 2014. ...

Italy's Bersani meets Berlusconi to seek end to impasse Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:54 AM PDT By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Italian center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani met his center-right rival Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday to discuss the election for the next president of the Republic, offering hope of a breakthrough in the deadlock left by elections in February. "It was a good meeting but we're at the beginning," Enrico Letta, deputy leader of Bersani's Democratic Party (PD), told reporters in parliament. ...

Rios Montt's defense seeks to clear ex-Guatemalan dictator Posted: 09 Apr 2013 04:46 PM PDT By Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Lawyers for Guatemala's ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt, on trial for genocide, began their defense on Tuesday with testimony that the former strong man did not direct specific military operations during his 1982-1983 rule. Carlos Leonel Mendez, a former Guatemalan army engineer and first witness to testify for the defense since the trial opened last month, said battlefield operations were not part of presidential powers during the country's bloody civil war. ...

Sudan's army says kills 15 rebels, retakes part of South Darfur Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:50 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudanese forces retook a southern part of the country's Darfur region after clashing with insurgents, killing 15, a military spokesman said on Tuesday, while rebels claimed victory in fighting in northern Darfur. Spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad said the army had repulsed an attack by rebels loyal to veteran fighter Minni Minawi on the Dubu area in South Darfur state, and the state news agency SUNA said government forces had reasserted control over the area. ...

Libya arms fueling conflicts in Syria, Mali and beyond: U.N. experts Posted: 09 Apr 2013 02:19 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Weapons are spreading from Libya at an "alarming rate," fueling conflicts in Mali, Syria and elsewhere and boosting the arsenals of extremists and criminals in the region, according to a U.N. report published on Tuesday. The report by the U.N. Security Council's Group of Experts - who monitor an arms embargo imposed on Libya at the start of an uprising in 2011 which ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi - said the North African state had become a key source of weapons in the region as its nascent government struggles to exert authority. ...

Chile presidential favorite Bachelet eyes major tax reform Posted: 09 Apr 2013 02:23 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday she would pursue major tax reform to overhaul the nation's education system and reduce economic inequality if she is elected in November, as polls predict. Bachelet, a popular center-leftist who headed the world's top copper-exporting nation from 2006 to 2010, has asked a group of experts to come up with a package of tax measures by the end of May. She said the tax reform will look for higher-earners to pay more in a country that is experiencing robust economic growth but where inequality remains stubbornly high. ...

Paraguay election hopeful plans to issue debt for infrastructure Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:29 PM PDT By Daniela Desantis and Mariel Cristaldo ASUNCION (Reuters) - Efrain Alegre, the ruling party candidate running for Paraguay's presidency, said he will issue more debt abroad to finance infrastructure spending and open up state companies to private capital if he wins the April 21 election. Alegre, 50, is a lawyer and longtime politician in the center-right Liberal Party, which took over the presidency last year when Congress impeached leftist President Fernando Lugo. ...

No sense of panic in NKorean capital Posted: 09 Apr 2013 02:04 PM PDT PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Scores of North Koreans of all ages planted trees as part of a forestation campaign — armed with shovels, not guns. In the evening, women in traditional dress danced in the plazas to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong Il's appointment to a key defense post.

Cuba to turn over Florida couple and children Posted: 09 Apr 2013 04:10 PM PDT HAVANA (AP) — Cuba said Tuesday that it will turn over to the United States a Florida couple who allegedly kidnapped their own children from the mother's parents and fled by boat to Havana, ending days of drama that evoked memories of the Elian Gonzalez custody battle of more than a decade ago.

Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:43 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq and the most powerful rebel extremist group in Syria have officially joined ranks against President Bashar Assad to forge a potentially formidable militant force in the Middle East.

Man kills 13 people in Serbian shooting rampage Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:19 PM PDT VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia (AP) — He went from house to house in the village at dawn, cold-bloodedly gunning down his mother, his son, a 2-year-old cousin and 10 other neighbors. Terrified residents said if a police patrol car hadn't shown up, they all would have been dead.

Paris exhibit asks: Was there an Italian Monet? Posted: 09 Apr 2013 12:33 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Years before Impressionism — the influential Paris-based art movement — began, a similar style of painting capturing colorful impressions of light may have existed in Italy, according to a new exhibit.

Egypt's pope sharply criticizes president Posted: 09 Apr 2013 02:20 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Coptic Christian pope delivered an unprecedented direct criticism of the Islamist president Tuesday after a mob attack on the church's main cathedral, saying he had failed to protect the building and warning that the country is collapsing.

Afghan women in Kabul prison over 'moral' crimes Posted: 09 Apr 2013 06:17 AM PDT KABUL (AP) — Lost and alone in a strange city Mariam called the only person she knew, her husband's cousin. She worried he wouldn't help her because she had left her home in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province, fleeting to the capital Kabul to escape his relentless and increasingly vicious beatings. But he promised to help. Too busy to come himself he sent a friend who took her to "some house", held a gun to her head and raped her.

Egypt's revolutionary cleric suspended over sermon Posted: 09 Apr 2013 12:54 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — A Muslim cleric who became known as "the preacher of the revolution" for his sermons in Tahrir Square during the uprising against ousted President Hosni Mubarak and subsequent anti-government protests said he was suspended Tuesday by a ministerial decree following a citizen's complaint about his criticism of the current Islamist president.

10-year anniversary of Baghdad fall to US forces Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:58 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Ten years ago, a statue fell in Baghdad's Firdous Square. Joyful Iraqis helped by an American tank retriever pulled down their longtime dictator, cast as 16 feet of bronze. The scene broadcast live worldwide became an icon of the war, a symbol of final victory over Saddam Hussein.

Yugoslav wars left population heavily armed Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:12 AM PDT SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The wars from 1991 to 1999 as Yugoslavia broke up took up to 200,000 lives, turned millions into refugees and left much of the region's people traumatized and heavily armed. It was the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.

In Gaza, a dream of sailboats meets land's limited horizons Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:24 PM PDT This is the first post of a new weekday feature from the Monitor's Jerusalem bureau chief, Christa Case Bryant. Read the introductory post for more explanation.

South Korean politician asks Seoul to consider nuclear capability Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:30 PM PDT Calling international efforts to stop North Korea from building atomic weapons a "miserable failure," a prominent South Korean lawmaker today called for the deployment of tactical US nuclear weapons in the South and suggested that his country think about developing their own nuclear deterrent.

Tens of thousands march for peace in Colombia after decades of conflict Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:07 PM PDT Tens of thousands of Colombians marched through the streets of Bogotá today in a mass demonstration of solidarity with victims of Colombia's half-century-old conflict, and in support of the peace negotiations aimed at ending it.

On 10-year anniversary of Baghdad's fall, Iraqis remain torn Posted: 09 Apr 2013 12:59 PM PDT Ferdos square, where Saddam Hussein's statue stood until toppled by jubilant Iraqis on this day in 2003, was largely deserted today. Elsewhere in the capital, Baghdad residents struggled to get to work on streets choked with traffic and blocked by concrete walls and security checkpoints.

Welcome to The Olive Press Posted: 09 Apr 2013 12:17 PM PDT Peering over at the Middle East, many see a tangle of age-old hostilities with some newfangled terrorist groups looking for a toehold in the rubble.

Does a Star Wars palace in Italy need the army to protect it? Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:31 AM PDT In size and splendor, it rivals the Palace of Versailles, and has been used as a set for Hollywood blockbusters such as Star Wars, Mission: Impossible, and Angels & Demons.

Iran's 'axis of resistance' loses its Palestinian arm to Syrian war Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:10 AM PDT Before the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, Hamas was a key ally of Damascus and a component of the Iran-led "axis of resistance" that challenged Israel and the West in the Middle East.

The Britain that Margaret Thatcher inherited Posted: 09 Apr 2013 09:35 AM PDT "BRITAIN AT THE CROSSROADS," blared a Monitor headline in July 1978, less than a year before Margaret Thatcher became the country's prime minister. "Are law and order wilting?"

Heavy metal, Islamist politics, and democracy in Indonesia Posted: 09 Apr 2013 08:00 AM PDT When I moved to Indonesia in 1993, the Indonesian media and political spheres were closed shops. There were only three legal political parties and the media, particularly broadcast media, were tightly controlled. The scenes around me now, in this corner of the archipelago, reveal just how much the nation has transformed itself.

In Lebanon, a doctor offers comfort and healing to refugees from neighboring wars Posted: 09 Apr 2013 07:43 AM PDT It takes him a good 20 seconds to get his bearings, but, sitting up in his bed, Matti Tourrani smiles and says hello, muffled by a drowsy cough. His right leg is swollen – so much that it is now twice as thick as his left. "It's not so painful; I'm more concerned about my knee," says the elderly man.

In Mali, a war ends but instability lingers Posted: 09 Apr 2013 07:12 AM PDT On paper, the French bid to oust Islamist rebels from northern Mali has been nearly perfect: locally popular, internationally approved, well executed.

Mali's separatist Tuaregs cling to dream Posted: 09 Apr 2013 07:12 AM PDT "I never supported them, but many of my friends did," says Aljimit. It is early afternoon, and we are taking refuge in a straw hut from heat that reaches 110 degrees F.

Nuclear war on the Korean peninsula? North Korea warns foreigners to leave. Posted: 09 Apr 2013 06:11 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

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