North Korea Threatens South Korea and The US at The UN

North Korea shocked the UN's Conference on Disarmament when they openly threatened the South, on Tuesday.

Jon Yong Ryong, a diplomat for the North, stated that, "South Korea's erratic behavior would only herald its final destruction".

His statement brought outrage and condemnation from the other nations present.

He also promised that the North will react strongly to the US, if it continued it's path of hostility.

The unveiled threats brought about suggestions that the North's presence in the UN be limited.

General Strike in Guinea Over Election Fixing Accusations

A nation wide strike began in Guinea, on Tuesday.

Some neighborhoods saw clashes with police, and arrests were made.

The strike was called for by opposition groups who say that the upcoming elections are already been fixed.

They accuse the government of fixing the date of the vote to make it difficult for people to vote as well as selectively editing who can vote in the election.

May 12's vote would be the first parliamentary election in over a decade.

Jbeli Resigns as Tunisian Prime Minister

Hamadi Jbeli has resigned his position as Tunisia's Prime Minister.

He had threatened to do so, if the political parties could not come to an agreement on a new government.

Political turmoil has returned to the country, since the assassination of Chokri Belaid.

Tens of thousand of people marched in protests against the government, followed by thousands of supporters marching.

Opposition parties have demanded that Ennahda, the leading Islamic party, give up two ministers spots.

For now, the country's government has ground to a standstill.

Turkey Targets Leftists Connected to Bombing of US Embassy

Turkish police conducted raids across the country, on Tuesday.

Warrants were issued for one hundred and sixty-seven people in twenty-eight provinces.

Most of those targeted were members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, which was responsible for the attack on the US Embassy, on February 1.

The group had already been designated a terrorist organization, by both the US and Turkey, and the bombing has just given Turkey official reason to go after them.

Others that were arrested were leaders and members of KESK, a leftist trade union group, which Turkey is saying has ties with terrorist organization.

Seventeen members of the Revolutionary Civil Servant Movement were also among those arrested.

Armenia's Sargsyan Wins Reelection Under Cloud of Voting Violations

Serzh Sargsyan won reelection in Armenia, on Monday.

His reelection will give him a second five year term.

With fifty-eight percent of the vote he handily won the election, as his nearest competitor only had thirty-two percent.

However, charges of voting violations had begun nearly as soon as the polls had opened.

Monday finished with more than seventy separate charges of violations, including accusations that votes for opposition parties were thrown out.

Even if true, it is unclear if all of the violations combined would be enough to take the office from Sargsyan.

Florida Recycling Plant Catches Fire

Fire broke out in a heap of scrap metal at OneSteel Recycling, in Tampa, Florida, early Monday morning.

A dozen fire companies were called to battle the blaze.

Firefighters managed to keep it from spreading, but say that it won't be out for hours, yet.

Hazmat crews are also on the scene, due to the possible content of what is burning, but health officials say that there is no threat to anyone's health and that it is merely a precaution.

Smoke from the fire spread as far as St. Petersburg, fifteen miles away.

Thirteen Injured at South African Mine

Two unions have begun fighting over which of them shall control Anglo Platinum's in Rustenburg, South Africa.

In attempts to disperse crowds, security workers fired rubber bullets at them.

Thirteen people were injured and required hospitalization after the shooting, on Monday.

Police are now involved and working to keep the two unions apart.

Violence around mines killed over fifty people, in 2012.

The country is trying to avoid a repeat of that.

Venezuelans Celebrate Chavez's Return

Hundreds of Venezuelans took to the streets to celebrate the return of Hugo Chavez.

His Twitter account announced that he had returned from Cuba, Monday morning.

He is still hospitalized, as he recovers from four surgeries to try and beat cancer.

Chavez had been absent for ten weeks, during which time his further rule has been questioned.

On January 10, he was scheduled to be inaugurated for his fourth term, but was unable to make it.

In a bit of controversy, the Supreme Court decided that the inauguration could be postponed.

Airline Strike Crippling Iberia's Airport

Protesters are doing their best to shut down the airport in Iberia, Spain.

Most of the protesters belong to unions, and are specifically workers for Iberia airlines, which has gone on strike.

The protesters and strikers have clashed with police who are attempting to keep the other areas of the airport clear.

Iberia airlines announced last week that they will be reducing their work force of eighteen thousand by thirty-eight hundred people.

The airline has been losing money, and feels that the cuts are the only way to keep the company in the air.

Organizers plan to run this strike for five days, with two more five day strikes to follow in March.

Estimates are that the strike will cost the country over thirteen million dollars a day.

Spain is already dealing with an unemployment rate of twenty-six percent.

Remembering: Pluto, The Ninth Planet

For years it was theorized that there was a ninth planet. Uranus and Neptune showed clear signs of being affected by the gravitational force of another body.

However, the search repeatedly failed to find anything. Then in 1929, astronomers at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona began to search again.

On February 18, 1930, Clyde W. Tombaugh found it, a tiny planet in a ninth orbit. He shared the location with other astronomers and they were able to confirm his find. They decided upon the name Pluto, the Roman name for the Greek of the underworld, as the planet was extremely cold.

The announcement was made to the world on March 13, 1930. For seventy-six years Pluto would reign as the ninth planet. Unfortunately, on August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided upon a new definition of what a planet is. Their new definition eliminated Pluto from being a full planet and relisted it as a dwarf planet.