http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/02/un_arms_treaty_overwhelmingly_approved_after_years_of_negotiation.html
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first U.N. treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade.
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel Protest After Inmate Dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22003032
JERUSALEM - Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners staged protests in Israeli jails on Tuesday as the Palestinian leadership accused Israel of deliberately delaying the treatment of a fellow prisoner who died that morning of cancer.
Caroline Kennedy: is JFK's daughter cut out to be US ambassador to Japan?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/apr/02/caroline-kennedy-jfk-daughter-us-ambassador-japan
Age: 55. Appearance: JFK's daughter. Who is she? JFK's daughter. Also: an attorney, editor, fundraiser and philanthropist.
Third man arrested in Rio 'party of evil' after hours-long sex assault of foreign ...
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/02/third-man-arrested-in-rio-party-of-evil-after-hours-long-sex-assault-of-foreign-tourist/
RIO DE JANEIRO - A foreign man and woman studying Portuguese in Brazil were held for hours while the woman was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they boarded over the weekend in Rio de Janeiro's showcase Copacabana beach ...
Militants kill seven, take four hostage in rocket-propelled grenade attack on ...
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/02/militants-kill-seven-take-four-hostage-in-rocket-propelled-grenade-attack-on-power-station-in-pakistan/
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Several dozen militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station in northwestern Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, killing seven people and taking four hostage, police said.
Putin Orders State Officials to Declare Expenses
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20130402_ap_exambassadorsurgeusrussiatomendrift.html
MOSCOW, April 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Tuesday to help implement laws obliging state officials to declare their income and expenses, in a bid to crack down on corruption.
Era of free press dawns in Burma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21992079
People in Burma will have a choice of daily newspapers for the first time in 50 years from 1 April. Under the reforms introduced by the elected government, the state monopoly on newspapers will end.
Another US City 'Requires' Gun Ownership
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/02/us_city_makes_it_illegal_not_to_own_a_gun.html
WASHINGTON, April 2 (RIA Novosti) - Residents of Nelson, Georgia have 10 days to purchase guns and ammunition under a new ordinance that makes their small city the latest in a growing number of communities across the United States to encourage gun ...
Pope to review Vatican bureaucracy, scandal-ridden bank
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/pope-francis-may-close-scandalhit-vatican-bank-29169854.html
Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
China Frees Tibetan Activist After 17 Years in Prison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/tibetan-political-prisoner-chinese-jail
BEIJING - A Tibetan activist whose long, harsh detention by Chinese authorities drew international scrutiny has been freed after serving 17 years in prison, exile groups reported on Tuesday.
Rescuers find 59 bodies after Tibet landslide: Xinhua
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2013/04/02/54-bodies-recovered-after-tibet-landslide
BEIJING | Tue Apr 2, 2013 11:13am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - Rescue teams have found 59 dead bodies at the site a massive landslide in Tibet and two dozen more workers are still feared buried in the rubble, Chinese state media said on Tuesday.
Don't underestimate Ahmadinejad's chosen heir in Iran election
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran-blog/2013/apr/02/iran-ahmadinejad-election-mashaei
It is time to think the unthinkable. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's controversial aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has a chance of winning the presidential election in June.
Letters: The tragedy of the Iraq war
http://nation.time.com/2013/04/02/scoring-our-four-iraq-wars/
Re "Iran appears the victor in postwar Iraq," March 29. In 1991, the first President Bush, a decorated World War II combat veteran, was content to simply drive Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
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