More medical trouble for a famous world leader;  A doctor is charged with leading a ring of physicians who killed instead of cured;  And North Korea keeps threatening the outside world, but who is Pyongyang really talking to?

Nelson Mandela is back in hospital.  The 94-year old former President and former political prisoner is conscious and reportedly responding well to treatment for a lung infection.

A South African Judge gave Oscar Pistorius permission to travel outside the country while he faces charges of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.  Pistorius will get his passport back to compete in track and field events overseas.

Egypt arrested three divers for allegedly trying to sever an undersea Internet cable to Europe.  The men were being interrogated, but authorities haven’t said what their motive might have been.

North Korea says it cut a key military hotline with South Korea.  The over-the-top saber rattling is going on for a little longer than it usually does, and western observers are trying to figure out what it all means.  American Diplomat Christopher Hill has a lot of experience with Pyongyang, and he says the rhetoric might be aimed not at the outside, but at his own country.  Kim Jong Un is “Not being well received” at home according to Hill, and the bluster might be an attempt to build his strongman credentials.

Meanwhile, the US sent B-2 Stealth Bombers over South Korea during recent war games.  The B-2s flew more than 10 Thousand kilometers, dropped some dummy bombs, and went back home.  The Pentagon says the exercise "demonstrates the United States' ability to conduct long range, precision strikes quickly and at will.”  Oh, and Kim Jong-Un?  B-2s are nuclear-capable bombers.

Authorities charged a doctor in Brazil with murdering patients in her hospitals intensive care unit to free up beds. Virginia Helena Soares de Souza allegedly led a small cadre of doctors to pull the plug on victims against the wishes of patients and their families.  The other doctors are charged as well.  At least seven patients died of asphyxiation and drug overdoses.

The government of Thailand is holding peace talks with Muslim rebels to end a decade of trouble in the far south. More than 5,300 people have been killed in the conflict in the majority-Muslim provinces in Thailand, including five more who died as the peace talks began.

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