North Korea warns foreigners to leave South
Regime says visitors might get hurt if war starts, while workers boycott joint factories and missile test talk heightens
As the world waits to see if North Korea launches a ballistic missile, the regime has attempted to raise tensions further, warning foreigners living in South Korea to make evacuation plans because the peninsula is on the brink of war.
"We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea should there be a war," the official KCNA news agency quoted an official from a North Korean organisation calling itself Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee as saying.
The KCNA report did not offer details and there are reportedly no signs of a military buildup near the border dividing the Korean peninsula, located less than 40 miles from the South Korean capital, Seoul.
IRAQ
The long shadow of the Iraq war
When Iraqi civilians and American soldiers toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad 10 years ago, no one had any idea how long the war would last, or how far-reaching its effects would be.
"For the first time in the lives of many Iraqis, people are now free to express their opinion, they're free to organize politically as they wish," US Secretary of State John Kerry declared during his most recent visit to Iraq. "But it would be disingenuous," he added, "not to come here and say that there is a great deal of work yet to do."
Ten years after the fall of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, neither the situation in Iraq nor the relationship between Iraq and the United States are what the architects of the war imagined they would be back in 2003. America now has virtually no influence in Iraq, a country characterized by weak institutions, violence, human rights abuses, and the growing strength of the terrorist group al Qaeda. And critics say this is the fault of the United States government - both the previous administration and the current one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Global Resistance to Tax Havens Grows
Tax havens cause hundreds of millions of euros in annual damage to national economies around the world and they create an uncontrollable parallel economy. The recent Offshore Leaks investigative reports are helping to fuel efforts in Europe and the US to have them eliminated.
What do a now-deceased German playboy and the daughter of the former Philippine dictator have in common? What connects a Russian oligarch and the former campaign manager of the French president?
The forgotten: Humanitarian crisis unfolds in CAR
The humanitarian emergency in the Central African Republic worsens daily as security in much of the country remains elusive.
Souleymane Diabate, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) office, shakes his head as he considers the obstacles preventing his organisation and its partners from getting food to people who have nothing to eat. The crisis is on several levels, he tells the Mail & Guardian.
"Our warehouses in Bangui and Kaga Bandoro were looted and we can't bring in new supplies until we know it's safe to do so." The problem isn't a lack of food and medical supplies – 30 tonnes of material, packed in shipping containers and ready for rapid deployment is sitting at United Nations facilities in neighbouring countries.
Hasta luego, Mexico: The Monitor's Latin America bureau chief signs off
Our correspondent recalls the good, the bad, and the surprising from her nearly seven years covering the region.
Dear doorman, newspaper vendor, and valet; dear taxi driver, security guard, shop owner, and upholsterer:
Most of you don’t know my name, nor I yours, but we know each other nonetheless. We’ve smiled and said hello every day for nearly seven years, while I was based in Mexico City as the Christian Science Monitor’sLatin America bureau chief.
In these years, I’ve traveled all across Mexico and to over a dozen other countries in the region, bearing witness to the drug violence that has terrified this nation, to the earthquake that ravaged Haiti, to themyriad electoral victories of Venezuela’s late divisive president, to Brazil’s rise, and ongoing political transformation in Cuba, Bolivia, and beyond.
9 April 2013 Last updated at 00:32 GMT
Nepal's rhino hunters become the hunted
Once Chitwan National Park in Nepal was the favourite hunting ground of poachers, but now it is they who are on the run and being hunted.
It is a rare successful conservation story in South Asia, where park officials and the Nepalese army have managed to turn the tide against poaching in the last few years.
Wild animals such as tigers, rhinos, elephants and leopards have been regularly killed by poachers for their body parts and skin, which fetch thousands of dollars on the black market.
The national park in the foothills of the Himalayas has succeeded particularly in protecting its most famous resident - the one-horned rhinoceros, also known as the Great Indian rhinoceros - from poachers.
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