North Korea said to move medium-range missile to its coast
April 4, 2013 -- Updated 0756 GMT (1556 HKT)
(CNN) -- North Korea kept tensions simmering around its borders Thursday, reportedly moving a medium-range missile to its east coast and continuing to put pressure on a joint industrial complex where hundreds of South Koreans work.
The day before, the United States had announced it was sending ballistic missile defenses to Guam, a Western Pacific territory that's home to U.S. naval and air bases. North Korea has cited those bases among possible targets for missile attacks.
The South Korean defense minister said the North has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast for an imminent test firing or military drill.
Hollande faces political upheaval over Cahuzac scandal
Former budget minister pleads for forgiveness over secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Singapore
The French president and prime minister struggled yesterday to shore up the ruins of the “irreproachable republic” promised by François Hollande, following the admission by former budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac that he had indeed opened secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Singapore.
Mr Cahuzac resigned on March 19th, when the Paris prosecutor announced he was under investigation for money laundering and tax fraud. Citing his right to be presumed innocent, the French political class remained circumspect.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Israeli forces kill two teenage Palestinian protesters in West Bank
Two Palestinian teenagers have been shot dead during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. The violence comes amid a third day of protests over the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody.
The Israeli army said soldiers fired Wednesday on Palestinians who threw fire bombs at a guard post near the city of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.
The body of 17-year-old Amer Nassar was quickly recovered Wednesday and a second body, that of Naji Belbisi, 17, was found in the early hours of Thursday, Palestinian officials said.
The Israeli army said it was investigating the incident, which left at least one other Palestinian wounded.
Respect for life declining in China: dissident
April 4, 2013 - 9:36AM
Audrie Palmer
Midland, Texas: A Chinese civil rights activist said he has documented 130,000 cases of women from his local area of China that were forced to have an abortion.
Chen Guangcheng, who made international headlines last year when he escaped to the United States, spoke to a crowd of 225 Tuesday evening at the Midland Country Club.
Mr Chen is the blind, self-taught lawyer who was imprisoned for four years and three months and then placed under house arrest for two years for his 2005 study and research into the forced abortions and massive abuses in the Chinese government's family-planning policy.
US posts $5 million reward for Ugandan warlord Kony
The United States on Wednesday unveiled a $5 million bounty on Lord's Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted men, and posted rewards for three other rebel leaders.
Kony has long been on the run in the jungles of central Africa, but his LRA, a Ugandan rebel group, has waged a fierce insurgency and campaign of mutilations and child abductions for two decades across four countries.
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Kony and other top LRA leaders on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kony's name was added to the State Department's war crimes rewards program along with fellow LRA members Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen, and Sylvestre Mudacumura from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), in the hopes that the men would be brought to justice.
Looking for day when Mexico's underworld is violence-free? Try looking back.
Since the 1980s Mexico's criminal organizations have become increasingly globalized and sophisticated, but almost a century ago they were largely family organizations shipping bootleg liquor to the US.
Mexico’s battles with drug trafficking have been a constant in the country’s modern history, but the activities and organization of the criminal groups operating in the clandestine industry have been in a state of constant flux. That flux, which continues today, lies at the heart of Mexico's violence.
During the 20th century and into the 21st, Mexico’s criminal organizations have grown increasingly sophisticated, globalized, and diversified. Whereas 90 years ago they were largely family organizations shipping marijuana and bootleg liquor to the US, today they traffic any number of products to and from nations in all four corners of the globe.
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