[World] South Korea vows fast response to North; US deploys stealth fighters

South Korea vows fast response to North; US deploys stealth fighters
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-sends-2s-south-korea-military-drills-18829344
By Jack Kim. SEOUL | Mon Apr 1, 2013 12:48am EDT. SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will strike back if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill ...

In Egypt, a satirist facing charges remains irreverent
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/f6gjSPBUCwFX0rFpHCrpqO/Egypt-satirist-questioned-for-insulting-Mursi-released-on-b.html
CAIRO - He arrived with a prankster's aplomb. Bassem Youssef, a popular Egyptian TV satirist often compared to Jon Stewart, appeared before a prosecutor Sunday on charges of defaming President Mohamed Morsi.

Islamist Fighters Slip Back Into Timbuktu and Are Repelled by French and Malians
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/islamic-extremists-attack-timbuktu/article4566735.ece
PARIS - A small band of radical Islamist fighters battled French and Malian soldiers for hours in a firefight in Timbuktu on Sunday after infiltrating the Malian city overnight, Malian officials and witnesses said.

Nigerian troops 'kill 14 Boko Haram militants' in Kano
http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=859518
Nigerian troops say they have killed 14 suspected members of the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, in a raid on a building in the northern city of Kano.

Privately owned daily newspapers set to return to Myanmar, challenging state ...
http://arabnews.com/news/446670
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's decades-long state monopoly on daily newspapers will be broken Monday as four privately owned dailies launch.

Finding Mr. Right, on campus
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301415/Susan-A-Patton-wrote-Princeton-student-newspaper-urging-female-students-snag-man.html
.... >>> it's something that happened in the ivy league that has a lot of people talking this weekend. a controversial suggestion that women at elite universities take advantage of the opportunity to find high-quality husbands at the schools.

Churches' dismay at 'unjust' cuts
http://www.itv.com/news/2013-03-31/churches-claim-the-governments-benefit-reforms-are-unjust/
THE Government is facing a growing chorus of opposition to its welfare reforms that Labour claims will leave some families £900 a year worse off.

At least 12 killed in Mexican bus crash
http://www.euronews.com/newswires/1875658-at-least-12-killed-in-mexican-bus-crash/
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 12 people died when a bus and a car collided in a mountainous part of the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Saturday evening, local emergency services said.

Is Germany too powerful for Europe?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/31/is-germany-too-powerful-for-europe
In his novel Fatherland, Robert Harris envisaged a hellish scenario - Hitler won the second world war. Decades later, the Greater German Reich extends from the Rhine to the Caspian Sea.

School Principal Killed in Pakistan Attack
http://www.news.com.au/world-news/school-principal-dead-in-pakistan-school-attack/story-fndir2ev-1226609680485
KARACHI, Pakistanâ€"Suspected Pakistani Taliban killed a school principal and injured several students in the country's biggest city, Karachi, in an attack that highlighted the militants' spreading reach.

RC-East operational update | April 1
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nato-alarm-over-afghan-army-crisis-loss-of-recruits-threatens-security-as-handover-looms-8555238.html
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces found and safely cleared 10 improvised explosive devices, detained four suspected insurgents, discovered one weapons cache during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout ...