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citizens.
• Colorful posters urging citizens to go to the polls line the streets in Pyongyang and other cities. Along with nearly 700 other 'deputies" expected to be seated in the new assembly, supreme leader Kim Jong Un himself has announced his candidacy -- in District 111 on sacred Mount Paekdu.
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• THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The International Criminal Court on Friday convicted a rebel leader of charges including murder and pillage over a deadly attack on a village in eastern Congo, but acquitted him of rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.
• Germain Katanga showed no emotion as judges convicted him as an accessory in the attack on the strategic village of Bogoro on Feb. 24, 2003, in which some 200 civilians were hacked or shot to death and many women were raped and turned into sex slaves.
• Katanga, nicknamed Simba, is only the second person convicted since the court was established in 2002. Another alleged rebel leader originally charged with him, Mathieu Ngudjolo, was acquitted of all charges in December 2012.
• In a 2-1 majority verdict, the court said Katanga played an important role in the attack on Bogoro by arming rebel fighters, "reinforcing the strike capability of the militia," Presiding Judge Bruno Cotte said.
• One of the three judges slammed the verdict, however, saying that the court changed the nature of the charges against Katanga, depriving him of the ability to defend himself.
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• FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- Opening statements were set to begin Friday in the court-martial of an Army general accused of sexually assaulting a captain under his command with whom he had a three-year affair.
• Prosecutors were expected to begin making their case against Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair. His defense lawyers portray him as the victim of an overzealous military under intense political pressure to make an example of him.
• Sinclair, 51, stood ramrod straight before a judge Thursday and pleaded

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