SUNKEN S. KOREAN FERRY TO BE RAISED

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has promised to raise the sunken ferry Sewol to recover the nine bodies still missing, as the country commemorates the disaster’s one-year anniversary, Yonhap news agency reports. A total of 304 people, most of them high school students, died when the ship sank after both the operator and crew violated regulations. According to newspaper Chosun Ilbo, families of the victims held a protest in Seoul and refused a compensatory package, saying the government was “insulting the victims with money.”

ON THIS DAY

Walter Cronkite anchored his first CBS Evening News broadcast 53 years ago today. Time now for your 57-second shot of history.

YEMEN DIVISIONS MAR ANTI-ISIS EFFORTS

Tensions are running high between Arab countries inside the U.S.-led coalition that’s been targeting ISIS in Iraq and Syria since last September.The New York Times reports that there was a “remarkable clash” between Iraq and Saudi Arabia yesterday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is currently in Washington, criticized the Saudi-led airstrike operation in Yemen as one that has “no logic” and expressed fears that other countries might be next on Saudi Arabia’s list, including Iraq. The Saudi ambassador to Washington retorted there was “no logic” to Abadi’s remarks and denied reports of civilian casualties in Yemen airstrikes.

• The United Nations Food and Agriculture Agency warned yesterday that the conflict in Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries, could exacerbate food insecurity, as 4.8 million residents face "emergency" conditions. More than half of the country’s 26 million people need humanitarian aid and have no access to safe water.

WORLDCRUNCH-TO-GO

Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass, who died this week, helped Germany find its voice after the horrors of World War II. But his life ultimately embodied his nation’s struggles to come to terms with its past, Die Welt’s Thomas Schmid writes. “His prose embodied the exuberance many longed for. Finally, there were characters with a thirst for life. Finally there was someone with a penchant for passionate storytelling. He also gave a wide berth to historical events, yet always carrying undertones of criticism and denouncement that was to become part of the German liberal public fabric. Grass was a sort of Grimmelshausen for the enlightened West German citizen.”

Read the full article, Gunter Grass, Literary Alpha Wolf Of Post-War Germany.

MY GRAND-PÈRE’S WORLD

FARC BREAKS TRUCE WITH DEADLY AMBUSH

"Airstrikes resume after FARC massacre," the front-page headline of Bogota-based daily El Tiempo reads today, alongside a picture of Colombian soldiers retrieving the bodies of their comrades who died in an ambush by the rebels late Tuesday in western Colombia's La Esperanza. At least 10 soldiers were killed in the attack led by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a major setback in an effort to end 50 years of war between government and guerrilla forces that had led to an unprecedented truce last month. Read more on our 4 Corners blog.

VERBATIM

“We’re not going to be immortal … So we have to live with that, and that’s why it’s so important to pass the message to the next generations,” 76-year-old Holocaust survivor Albert Garih told AFP, as Jews around the world today commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.

YET ANOTHER YANUKOVYCH ALLY DEAD

Oleg Kalashnikov, a Ukrainian opposition politician and ally of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, has been found shot dead in Kiev. According to the BBC, it’s still unclear whether his death is a suicide or a murder, but Kalashnikov is at least the eighth ally of the former president to have died in recent weeks. Russian network RT characterizes his death as a killing, reporting that the motive could have been driven by his “political activity” and “participation in the organization and financing” of anti-Maidan events in Ukraine.

BRAZIL PARTY OFFICIAL ARRESTED

The ongoing probe into widespread corruption at Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras led to yesterday’s arrest of the governing Workers’ Party treasurer João Vaccari Neto, O Globo reports. Vaccari was charged with money laundering and taking kickbacks from deals between private construction firms and the state-owned oil company. After his arrest, he resigned from his position inside the party. The news is yet another blow for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Petrobras board chair, and will likely continue to fuel calls for her impeachment, according to O Globo’s editorial. Read more in English from The Wall Street Journal.

FLY ME TO THE CAPITOL

Some people will go to extraordinary measures to stop the influence of big money in politics. Yesterday, in fact, 61-year-old Florida postal employee Doug Hughes landed a small gyrocopterPhoto above: James Borchuck/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA loaded with 535 letters to congressional members on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol.