http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/02/3319912/un-approves-historic-arms-treaty.html
UNITED NATIONS -- In a historic move that culminated more than a decade of work, the United Nations on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a treaty intended to regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade.
Seven killed, four kidnapped as militants storm grid station
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/03-Apr-2013/militants-destroy-peshawar-grid-station-kill-8
PESHAWAR: Seven men, including four Wapda employees and three policemen, were killed when militants attacked the 500 KV gridstation in Sheikh Mohammadi village near the provincial capital early Tuesday.
Putin orders ban on adoptions by foreign same-sex couples claiming children ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301973/Putin-orders-ban-adoptions-foreign-sex-couples-claiming-children-psychologically-damaged.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that a ban be placed on foreign adoptions to same-sex couples. His decision follows the commissioning of a report into so called 'psychological damage' suffered by a boy was who was adopted by two gay ...
Rape of US student mars Rio's World Cup build-up
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/seven-dead-after-bus-falls-off-bridge-20130403-2h63r.html
The brutal gang rape of a US student in a Rio bus has revived concern about public safety ahead of the World Cup and the 2016 summer Olympics, despite an overall drop in violence.
Nelson residents react to new gun ordinance
http://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-towns-law-gun/story?id=18863226
Nelson City Council voted unanimously to pass a mandatory firearms ordinance Monday night. However, not everyone who lives in the small city of 1300 agrees that a law making it mandatory for heads of households to own a gun is a good idea.
Brazil Ex-Leader Wades Into Venezuelan Politics
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/venezuela-s-opposition-leader-slams-nicolas-maduro-s-8216-heirs-of-hitler-slur-1.513102
SÃO PAULOâ€"Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva waded into Venezuelan politics on Tuesday, throwing his weight behind late President Hugo Chávez's handpicked successor in elections this month.
The Hobbit ring that may have inspired Tolkien put on show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/02/hobbit-tolkien-ring-exhibition
In what was once the housekeeper's office of a Tudor mansion in Hampshire, a very odd golden ring glitters on a revolving stand in a tall perspex column.
Search on after shots fired at US border near Abbotsford
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/search-on-after-shots-fired-at-us-border-near-abbotsford/article10682496/
Police on both sides of the Canada-United States border are still searching for a man who fled on foot after firing at U.S. border officials on Tuesday morning.
Gunmen raid 4 newspaper offices in Baghdad - CBS 3 Springfield - WSHM
http://dawn.com/2013/04/01/suicide-truck-bomb-kills-nine-as-iraq-unrest-spikes/
BAGHDAD (AP) - Gunmen suspected of being Shiite militiamen burst into the offices of four independent newspapers in Baghdad, smashing their equipment, stabbing and beating employees, and even hurling one reporter from a roof in the most brazen ...
Pakistan's Youth Vote explained
http://www.voanews.com/content/survey-most-young-pakistans-pessimistic-reuters/1633613.html
The first Pakistan: The Next Generation Report, originally launched by the British Council Pakistan in 2009, is debuting its 2013 research today, based on a national survey with five times the sample size of the previous report.
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