Asuncion, May 11 (EFE).- Money changers and car parkers, paperboys, vendors of fruit juice and handicrafts, soccer articles and herbs for the popular drink called "terere," populate the streets of Asuncion and represent the informal economy that allows hundreds of thousands of families to survive. According to the Permanent Household Survey, Paraguay in 2011 had an economically active population of 3.2 million, with 5.6 percent unemployed and almost 708,000 people underemployed.

Apiay, Colombia, May 10 (EFE).- Colombian authorities presented the country's first domestically produced flight simulator for training operators of unmanned drones. The simulator is the debut project to emerge from Colombia's Corporation for High Technology in Defense and involved collaboration between military and civilian engineers, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said in an event at Apiay airbase in the central province of Meta.

North Korea on Friday accused U.S. President Barack Obama of trying to deceive the world about which side is to blame for heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, saying Washington's "hostile policy" and "military threat" to Pyongyang are the root cause. "No matter how hard the U.S. president tries to cover up his sophism with rhetoric, he can neither change it into truth nor pull the wool over the eyes of the awakened people of the world," a Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the official Korean Central Agency, monitored in Beijing.

Mexico City, May 8 (EFE).- A woman was arrested while trying to smuggle eight undocumented Honduran minors into the United States, Mexico's INM immigration agency said Wednesday. The suspect, Cristela Angelina Garcia Murillo, 45, was detained by INM agents as a result of spot-checks on buses in the northern border state of Chihuahua, the agency said in a statement. Agents detected the minors as they traveled on two different buses headed toward the U.S. border.