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Two Tutus preach forgiveness
By Mick Krever, CNN
Forgiveness: It was the Rainbow Nation's first miracle.
When South Africa emerged from apartheid twenty years ago, it was deeply scarred by decades of institutionalized racism, bigotry, and violence.
Vengeance would have been a natural desire.
But President Nelson Mandela had another idea: truth and reconciliation. Put the past out in the open, but forgive.
The healing power of memory
The answer to crime isn't always punishment, but memory. CNN's Christiane Amanpour has more.
He chose Desmond Tutu, the Archbishop of Cape Town, to lead that effort.
Now, Tutu is taking his campaign for forgiveness to the internet - and the world. He is one of the world's undisputed heavyweight human rights champions, and he has never feared speaking truth to power.
He and his daughter, an Anglican priest, are launching an initiative to try another way of healing divisions – from personal grudges to global struggles.
How Japan’s prime minister is shaking things up
By Mick Krever, CNN
Japan’s waters are full of riptides, but the country’s prime minister isn’t opposed to taking a dip.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday, the first stop on his high-stakes tour to four key American allies in Asia.
Notably absent from his list of destinations is China, whose huge economic growth, and the influence that comes with it, looms large over the region.
President Obama has reiterated his commitment to America’s security agreement with Japan, albeit while sticking as much as possible to dry, diplomatic language.
“Territories under the administration of Japan are covered under the treaty,” he said. “There's no shift in position, no red line; we're simply applying the treaty.”
If there’s apprehension in that statement, it is because Japan’s conservative Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has upended the commitment to pacifism that has defined post-World War II Japan.
Among Prime Minister Abe’s affronts, according to his detractors: Visiting a memorial to Japanese war dead, among whom are convicted war criminals; refusing to apologize for Japan’s use of sex slaves in wartime China and South Korea; and a commitment to rewrite Japan’s constitution, which places great limits on the country’s military.
Beyond the boundaries of maids and mistresses
In south Asian countries like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the gap between the "have's" and those who cook and clean for them often seems unbridgeable.
In "Close Distance," a photo essay by Bangladeshi photographer Jannatu Mawa, the distance between domestic servants and their employers is highlighted.
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And you can see more of Mawa's photos here.
The world's largest democratic election
The man who may be India's next prime minister, Narendra Modi, is insisting he wants to be a leader for all Indians, not just the Hindu majority.
The latest reassurances come amid concern over his ties to Hindu nationalists, and anti-Muslim comments made by some in the group over the past few days.
But despite these concerns, the election momentum is still in Modi's favor.
Why newest nation could become the bloodiest
By Mick Krever, CNN
Fears of all-out civil war in the world’s newest country, South Sudan, are at an all-time high a week after rebels slaughtered at least 400 people in the town of Bentiu.
“This is the newest country in the world, and it threatens to become one of the bloodiest countries in the world,” David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, told CNN’s Paula Newton on Wednesday.
A scant three years ago, the country was full of jubilation as it celebrated its independence from Sudan after an internationally brokered referendum.
That changed last year, when the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, accused his former vice president of planning a coup; Riek Machar is now the president’s nemesis and a rebel leader.
Conflict between rival groups broke out in December, as a political power struggle erupted into violence. More than a million have fled their homes in what was already, one of the world's poorest nations.
“It’s large-scale, it’s random, and it is afflicting the whole country,” Miliband said. “The danger of genocidal killings is very real.”
Worlds collide in central African World Heritage park
By Mick Krever, CNN
Virunga National Park is where worlds collide.
Lush green hills, anti-government rebels, poachers (and anti-poaching rangers), an oil company, endangered gorillas, and – oh yes – locals just looking for a little bit of economic development.
They all come together in one of the most beautiful places on earth, in the heart of Africa, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda.
The fight to protect the park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, is the subject of a new documentary, “Virunga.”
“What's happening in Virunga is an urgent, precedent-setting case,” director Orlando von Einsiedel told CNN’s Paula Newton, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Wednesday.
Only 0.05% of the world’s surface is considered “protected,” he said.
“If we can't defend that tiny percentage of the world's surface, what chance do we have to defend the Great Barrier Reef, or Yellowstone National Park, or Yosemite?”
North Korea nuclear test ‘quite likely’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Another North Korean nuclear test is “quite likely” in the “not-too-distant future,” a veteran former American diplomat told CNN’s Paula Newton, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Tuesday.
“They’re well along on this path of theirs to the development of nuclear weapons, and testing is an important feature of that program. So I expect there will be another test in the relatively near future,” Stephen Bosworth, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and former special representative for North Korea policy, said.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry warned on Tuesday that the North has stepped up activity at its main nuclear test site, possibly preparing to carry out a fourth underground blast.
The reclusive regime in Pyongyang is known to have conducted three previous tests, all of them believed to be based on plutonium. The most recent one took place February 2013.
“At some point, as their missile program continues to develop and their nuclear weapons program continues, they will reach a point where I think we will all conclude they are a very grave threat to regional stability, and indeed to nuclear non-proliferation,” Bosworth said.
Former U.S. diplomat on Korea, Obama trip
Paula Newton, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with Former U.S. Ambasador Stephen Bosworth.
Recent experience shows, the former diplomat told Newton, that the “one way that we have of at least slowing them down, or gaining some additional time, is to engage with them.”
Time for change at the top of the world?
After the most deadly accident on Mt. Everest, there's a spotlight on the people who enable the mountaineering: Sherpas.
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For Tolstoy, from Crimea to 'War and Peace'
Leo Tolstoy was a young lieutenant in the last battle over Crimea, in the 1850s. Christiane Amanpour has the story.
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Russia and Ukraine argue ... over chicken
Among the hotly contested disputes between Russia and Ukraine is a recipe: Chicken Kiev.
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