World Watch: The Perils of Greed

* Bangladesh: The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory last month surpassed 650 as authorities will likely bring up murder charges against the owner of the facility.

* Syria: U.N. investigators concluded that neither the Syrian government or rebel factions have used chemical weapons though U.S. officials partially disagree with such an assertion.

* Germany: Authorities in Germany arrested 93-year-old Hans Lipschis and accrued him of serving as an Auschwitz death camp guard during World War II.

* U.S.: A new study concluded that nearly one in five youth are at risk for suicide if there’s a gun at their homes.

Video Source– YouTube via Channel 4 (Video uploaded on April 28, 2013).

Online Sources – USA TODAY; Reuters; Al Jazeera English; CBC News; NPR

Daily Headlines: May 1, 2013

* Cuba: President Barack Obama renewed his push to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay amidst a hunger strike by over half of the inmates.

* Vatican: Argentine-born Pope Francis condemned the “slave labor” conditions at a Bangladesh factory that collapsed last week killing over 400 people.

* Bolivia: President Evo Morales announced that he’s expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development for "conspiring" against the Bolivian government.

* U.S.: Gabriel Gomez, a Colombian-American and former Navy SEAL, won the Republican Party’s primary for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by current Secretary of State John Kerry.

Video Source – YouTube via AFP

Online Sources- CBS News; The Guardian; Businessweek; ABC News

World Watch: Targeted in the Congo

* Congo: The U.N. has urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to look into the mysterious death of prominent local human rights activist Floribert Chebeya.

* Middle East: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains defiant as international pressure increases over a military raid against activists at sea.

* Japan: Finance Minister Naoto Kan is the odds-on favorite to be selected as Japan’s next Prime Minister.

* Bangladesh: At least 100 people died when a fire engulfed a neighborhood in the capital city of Dhaka.

Image – BBC News (Deceased African human rights activist “Floribert Chebeya last sent a text to his wife from the police headquarters.”)
Online Sources- CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, BBC News