Foreign briefing

1. Travelers to Kenya are advised to “evaluate their personal security situation” because of the threat of terrorism and violent crime, a new State Department warning says.

2. Seldom-used or abandoned Olympic venues built for the 2004 Athens Games are the focus of anger for many Greeks, who are struggling with unemployment and recession.

3. After heavy rains, many farms in North Korea, where 16 million of the nation’s 24 million are short of food, remained under water earlier this month.

4. In Nepal, gays, lesbians and transgender people and their supporters marched in Pokhara this month, demanding equal rights and asking for recognition of a third gender.

5. In Tegucigalpa, the self-proclaimed Urban Maeztro is staging artistic “interventions” to make Hondurans think about violence in the capital. His posters of famous works often depict weapons where there should be none.

6.Argentina’swar cemetery in the Falkland Islands was vandalized recently. Families of the war dead blame British hostilities that, they say, continue to influence some locals. Argentina and Britain fought over the islands in 1982.

Sources: State Department and the Associated Press