News Headlines Mar. 7, 2013

• Berlusconi sentenced to 1 year behind bars in wiretap trial  Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to one year in jail after a wiretap trial linked to a 2005 banking scandal. 

• N. Korea threatens ‘pre-emptive’ nuclear strike against US A spokesman for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry says his country may deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike against its enemies in case an attack on Pyongyang is launched.

• 'Farewell, Comandante:’ Venezuelans throng to view Chavez’s body in state (PHOTOS) Following a seven-hour procession through the streets of Caracas, the coffin holding the body of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has been placed in a chapel in the Military Academy of Venezuela, where it will stay until the Friday funeral.

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• 20 UN peacekeepers taken hostage by Syrian rebels in Golan Heights Syrian rebels have seized twenty UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights on the border between Syria and Israel. The United Nations Security Council demands the convoy’s immediate release.  

• Arab League: Arab states free to offer military support to Syrian rebels

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