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Summary: Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki announces that he will leave office as the government continues to battle Islamists in the north of the country; we have the latest. We also ask how South Korea might reform its military and meet the tour operator who takes holidaymakers to some of the world's more troubled vacation-spots.