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Bangladesh seizes $1.4 million in gold from North Korean diplomat

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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's customs officers caught a North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated $1.4 million worth of gold into the country, a senior official said on Friday.
  

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Islamic State fighters have looted and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, the Iraqi government said, in their latest assault on some of the world's greatest archaeological and cultural treasures. A tribal source from the nearby city of ...

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Harrison Ford survives plane crash 

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Actor Harrison Ford was lucky to be alive following a plane crash on Thursday. Report by Hettie Maylam.
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Protesters break into a jail, drag the suspect to a clock tower and beat him to death while taking photos on their phones.

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EU sees ceasefire progress, but ready for more sanctions: Mogherini

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RIGA (Reuters) - The European Union is ready to step up sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, but the priority is to bolster a fragile ceasefire agreed in Minsk, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Friday.
  

No Country Has Reached Gender Equality, Says U.N.

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UNITED NATIONS — The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women is lamenting that a girl born today will be an 81-year-old grandmother before she has the same chance as a man to be CEO of a company — and she will have to wait until she’s 50-years-old to have an equal chance to lead a country.
Twenty years after 189 countries adopted a blueprint to achieve equality for women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said in an interview with The Associated Press that not a single country has reached gender parity and equality.
The executive director of UN Women spoke ahead of International Women’s Day on Friday and next week’s meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women. The commission will review the 150-page platform for action to achieve equality that was adopted at the groundbreaking U.N. women’s conference in Beijing in 1995. Then-U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton inspired delegates and women worldwide when she declared in a keynote speech: “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.”
Although there has been progress since Beijing, especially in women’s health and girls’ education, Mlambo-Ngcuka said, there are fewer than 20 female heads of state and government, and the number of women lawmakers has increased from 11 percent to just 22 percent in the last two decades.
“We just don’t have critical mass to say that post-Beijing women have reached a tipping point in their representation,” she said.
She said the under-representation of women in decision-making and violence against women are “global phenomena,” a result of male domination in the world that needs to change if women are ever to be truly equal.
The Beijing platform called for governments to end discrimination against women and close the gender gap in 12 critical areas including health, education, employment, political participation and human rights. For the first time, it recognized that women have the right to control their own sexuality without coercion, and reaffirmed their right to decide whether and when to have children.
Mlambo-Ngcuka said the issue of sexual and reproductive rights, which were the most controversial issues in Beijing, still stirs the biggest controversy in U.N. negotiations.
“Instead of becoming a norm … there has been resistance to those rights — deadly resistance as we have seen now in the Middle East” and with the school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria who have reportedly been sold off to men as wives without any rights, she said.
Mlambo-Ngcuka said “the sheer scale of the use of rape that we’ve seen post-Beijing,” especially in conflict situations, “I think tells us that the women’s bodies are viewed not as something to respect, but as something that men have the right to control and to abuse.”
What all of this means, she said, is that world leaders must start speaking out “very strongly and very openly” against sexual violence and the denial of women’s rights — and promoting gender equality must be a top issue on their agenda, which it isn’t now.
Mlambo-Ngcuka said the key is for men and boys to give up the privileges of patriarchy that they are born with.
Mlambo-Ngcuka said UN Women is looking for 10 world leaders, 10 CEOs and 10 universities to “break the mode” and become champions of the agency’s “He for She” campaign, which calls on the world’s male leaders, fathers, sons, husbands and brothers to stand up and support equality for women in all areas of life.
If that happens, she said, “we’ve got something to work with, taking the campaign forward.”
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Debate Over Genetically Engineered ‘Golden Rice’ Heats Up

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Scientists in the Philippines are at work on a strain of rice that could solve one of the world’s major health challenges: a vitamin A deficiency.  The so-called, “golden rice”, which has been genetically engineered to produce beta carotene, has led to opposition from GMO opponents, including Greenpeace.  To supporters of golden rice, the crop offers enormous potential for eliminating as many as two million deaths each year from vitamin A deficiency, which mainly impacts young...

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At least five people were injured when a suspected Palestinian attacker drove his car into a group of pedestrians before trying to stab other passers-by, Israeli police said. Four female border guards were among those injured in the attack, which police are ...

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Greece Pays First Installment on IMF Loan Due in March

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Greece has met the deadline for repaying the first part of it loan to the International Monetary Fund for March, a senior government official said, after Athens paid $341.93 million to the Washington-based fund.

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EU Scales Back Ukraine Sanctions

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The European Union scaled back its sanctions on former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych ’s inner circle, removing four people from its list of targets because of a lack of credible evidence.

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    An Iranian man has been sentenced to surgical removal of one eye and one ear as retribution for an acid attack. The sentence has not been implemented yet because no doctors have been willing to carry out the sentence. Iran Human Rights (IHR) condemns the Iranian authorities? use of barbaric punishments and urges the international community to react. Spokesperson of IHR, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: ? Removal of inhumane punishment in law and practice must be a prerequisite for any improvement of relations between Iranian authorities and the international community?. acid attack

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    The European Union has removed four Ukrainians from a sanctions list due to lack of evidence.

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    Ukraine Uprising, One Year Later (On Assignment) 

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    Russian gas giant Gazprom said on March 6 it had received a pre-payment for gas from Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz ensuring supplies to Ukraine through mid-March.

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    John Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the spy agency, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable, enhance the agency’s cyber capabilities and shore up espionage gaps exacerbated by a decade focused on counterterrorism.
    Brennan announced the restructuring to the CIA workforce on Friday. He said the move comes after nine outside experts spent three months analyzing the agency’s management structure, including what deputy CIA director David Cohen called “pain points,” organizational areas where the CIA’s bureaucracy does not work efficiently.
    Briefing reporters with Cohen at CIA headquarters this week, Brennan said the changes are necessary to address intelligence gaps that the CIA is not covering. He lamented that there is often no single person he can hold accountable for the spying mission in any given part of the world.
    “There are a lot of areas that I would like to have better insight to, better information about, better access to,” Brennan said. “Safe havens, denied areas. Whether because we don’t even have a diplomatic presence in a country, or because there are parts of countries that have been overrun and taken over by terrorist groups and others.”
    The changes come against a backdrop of widespread concern that the CIA’s focus on hunting and killing terrorists since the Sept. 11 attacks has led to an erosion of the espionage and analytic capabilities the agency built during the Cold War. The CIA, along with other U.S. intelligenceagencies, wrongly assessed the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2002 and failed to anticipate the rapid collapse of Middle East governments during the Arab Spring in 2011, among other shortcomings.
    The agency’s greatest public success of recent years - the 10-year effort to locate and kill Osama bin Laden in 2011 - may have taken longer than it should have, according to evidence made public in the recent Senate report on CIA interrogations. Internal CIA surveys have cited bad management and bureaucratic frustration as factors in driving talent away from the agency.
    In the most significant departure, the CIA would break down the wall between the operations and analytical arms, a system that typically has required the case officers who recruit spies and run covert operations to work for different bosses, in different offices, than analysts who interpret theintelligence and write briefing papers for the president and other policymakers.
    The new plan would blend practitioners of those separate disciplines into 10 centers devoted to various subjects or areas of the world. There are a handful of such centers at the moment, including the Counter Terrorism Center, where analysts and operators have worked side by side for the last decade targeting al-Qaida with espionage and drone strikes.
    Under the new plan, each center would be run by an assistant director who would be responsible for the entire intelligence mission within that jurisdiction, including covert operations, spying, analysis, liaison with foreign partners and logistics.
    The system of CIA stations, headed by a CIA station chief, will remain in place, Brennan said. Most stations are in U.S. embassies, and various CIA case officers in embassies may be working on different missions for different centers.
    The changes do not require congressional approval and will be undertaken within the CIA’s current budget, CIA officials said.
    Critics of a blended approach have raised concerns that combining analysts with operators could compromise the objectivity of the analysts, who are tasked with coldly interpreting intelligence in which they have no stake. It may be harder for an analyst to cast doubt on a source recruited by a case officer he knows personally, the theory goes.
    The head of the CIA’s operation arm retired abruptly in January after voicing concerns about the plan, say two former CIA officials who know him but spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss internal agency matters. Brennan said the undercover officer’s decision “was not a result of this,” but he did not dispute that the officer had opposed some of the changes.
    “Any time we’ve put analysts and operators together, the result has been a more powerful product,” said John McLaughlin, a former CIA analyst who became acting director, and who advised Brennanon the restructuring.
    Brennan is retaining the old structure of CIA directorates. But he is changing some names, including restoring the old moniker “Directorate of Operations,” to the spying arm, the name it had before being rebadged the National Clandestine Service in 2005. For analysts, what used to be called the Directorate of Intelligence will be renamed the Directorate of Analysis. Two others, the directorates of support and science and technology, remain.
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    The CIA is launching one of the biggest reorganizations in its history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating digital innovations into intelligence gathering, the CIA director, John Brennan, said.
    In a presentation to reporters this week, Brennan said he also is creating new units within the CIA, called “mission centers”, intended to concentrate the agency’s focus on specific challenges or geographic areas, such as weapons proliferation or Africa.
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    Turkey Cracks Down on Political Dissent — Again

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    Prosecutors are increasingly demanding jail time for people engaging in political dissent — from a former beauty queen to a top newspaper editor. And their efforts are likely to intensify in the run-up to June's general election even as human rights groups voice alarm over the crackdown. Mehmet Baransu, a columnist for Turkey’s Taraf newspaper, was the latest prominent journalist to hear the knock on the door from police in an early morning raid. Baransu was arrested Monday on...

    What is victory over ISIS?

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    Jim Sciutto explains what a military victory over ISIS will look like.
        


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    CIA to build cyber espionage unit - Los Angeles Times

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    CIA to build cyber espionage unit
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    In a reorganization of the nation's premier spy agency, the CIA is creating a special division to conduct digital espionage, the latest government agency to respond to the growing use of cyber hacks and attacks around the globe. The new directorate will try to ...
    CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops: agency chiefReuters
    CIA's Brennan to overhaul spy agency's management structureWashington Post
    CIA Director to Revamp Agency Structure, Looking for CollaborationWall Street Journal
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    Leonie Granger admits targeting gambler in honeytrap robbery

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    Leonie Granger, 25, swapped numbers with Mehmet Hassan after meeting him at a casino in Mayfair in London's West End. The 56-year-old was found dead at his flat a month later.

    Chief: CIA to be reorganized amid modern threats, crisis - GlobalPost

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    Chief: CIA to be reorganized amid modern threats, crisis
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    WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is planning to create new units in a series of reorganizations, focusing more on cyber operations and making the agency more successful against modern threats and crises, ...

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    Saudi Arabia Puts Squeeze on Foreign Workers

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    As Riyadh grapples with falling income from oil, high unemployment among nationals and the continuing threat of domestic unrest, one section of society is being increasingly marginalized: the low-paid foreign worker.

    CIA director announces sweeping reorganization of spy agency

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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Director John Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the CIA, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable and close espionage gaps amid widespread concerns about the spy agency's limited insights into a series of major global developments....

    Malaysia: If MH370 not found by end of May, new look at data

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    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia's transport minister says if Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is not found by the end of May, the three countries leading the search in the southern Indian Ocean will re-examine data and come up with a new plan....
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    Well-Wishing S. Korean Offers Dog Meat to Injured US Envoy - New York Times

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    Well-Wishing S. Korean Offers Dog Meat to Injured US Envoy
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    SEOUL, South Korea — A well-wishing South Korean man tried to offer dog meat to injured U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert, who is recovering from an attack by a knife-wielding anti-U.S. activist, hospital officials said Saturday. The man, who looked to be in his ...

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