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MEXICO CITY (AP) — For the third time in less than a month, the Mexican government has condemned the killing of one of its citizens by police in the United States. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18326[/attach] BEIJING (AP) — A slick new documentary on China's environmental woes has racked up more than 175 million online views in two days, underscoring growing concern in the country over the impact of air, water and soil pollution. Continue reading...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 28-year-old Italian tourist was killed in Alaska when he was crushed by a chunk of ice that broke from a glacier, authorities said. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18318[/attach] NEW YORK (AP) — High-end smartphones from Samsung and HTC have gotten much of the attention at this week's wireless show in Barcelona, Spain, but cheaper options are coming from Microsoft, Lenovo and others too. Meanwhile, Google and Facebook are working on giving people more ways to use those devices. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18317[/attach] NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time since its dot-com era peak nearly 15 years ago, the Nasdaq composite has closed above 5,000. Continue reading...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia was expected to confirm Tuesday an increase in troops to be sent to Iraq to help train Iraqi security forces to fight the Islamic State group. Continue reading...

Restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba and opening embassies in each other's capitals can be done before a summit in Panama on April 10 if there is will on both sides, a senior State Department official acknowledged on Monday after two rounds of talks. "We believe reestablishment of diplomatic relations and opening of embassies should be done together," the official told Reuters. A senior Cuban official said earlier Cuba was willing to reestablish diplomatic relations with Washington as soon as the Obama administration declares its intent to take the country off a list of state sponsors of terrorism. Continue reading...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Senate speaker said Monday that Russia's authorities have denied him entry into the country for the funeral of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. Continue reading...

By Caroline Stauffer and Marcelo Teixeira SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Striking truck drivers resumed some roadblocks in Brazil on Monday, disrupting grain and meat shipments to southern ports even as the government cracked down on protesters and promised to give new benefits to the transport sector. By mid-afternoon there were 23 road blockages in three southern states, down from 99 points nationwide a week ago, the federal highway police said. The country's No. 3 soy exporting port of Rio Grande, in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, said 70 percent of its operations were affected. Brazil exported just 869,000 tonnes of soybeans last month, 69 percent less than in February 2014, the data showed. Continue reading...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say four people from the U.S. drowned in an incident along the country's eastern coastline. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18312[/attach] BAGHDAD (AP) — Backed by Iranian-supported Shiite militias, Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive Monday to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown from the Islamic State group, the first in a series of campaigns to try to reclaim large parts of northern Iraq from the Sunni extremists. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18311[/attach] NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is not planning to march in the nation's biggest and oldest St. Patrick's Day parade unless its organizers change their limitations on displays of gay pride. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18310[/attach] BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Nations is urging donors, organizations and countries fighting Ebola in West Africa not to give in to complacency as the death toll from the virus climbs toward 10,000. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18301[/attach] The US and Russian foreign ministers expressed cautious optimism after holding talks in Geneva Monday to end fighting in Ukraine, where the UN says more than 6,000 people have died in less than a year. The meeting between John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov in Geneva was just one of several attempts at mediation on the conflict Monday, as high-stakes talks to resolve a bitter gas dispute between Kiev and Moscow were also due in Brussels. Speaking separately after their 80-minute meeting, Kerry and Lavrov both cautiously said a February 15 ceasefire was on the right track, despite repeated breaches of the peace deal that have left hundreds dead. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18300[/attach] Swaziland police club Royal Leopards caused a CAF Confederation Cup sensation with the weekend elimination of South Africans club Wits. Clashes between South African and Swazi clubs are traditionally mismatches as there is a gulf in football standards between the neighbouring countries. Unfashionable Johannesburg-based Wits are riding high at home, sharing second place in the league table with Mamelodi Sundowns. The policemen held their nerve in the shootout and when South African Kabelo Paseka fluffed his penalty, Wits were out. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18299[/attach] Eurostar suffered 17 cancellations on Monday after a person was hit by a train and killed on the English side of the cross-Channel service. "Due to a person hit by a train between Ashford International and Ebbsfleet International, the High Speed Line is currently closed," Eurostar, which offers passenger rail services between London, Brussels and Paris, said in a statement. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18298[/attach] WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Monday that despite recent differences with the Obama administration over a looming nuclear deal with Iran the alliance between his country and the Unites States was "stronger than ever." Continue reading...

[attach=full]18297[/attach] Syrian regime forces and Kurdish militia fought separate battles with the Islamic State group on Monday in a strategic area near the Iraqi and Turkish borders, a monitoring group said. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) launched uncoordinated offensives against IS in the northeastern province of Hasakeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that after three days of clashes, regime forces bolstered by fighters from Arab tribes had secured control over 23 villages in the centre of the province from IS. Continue reading...

Across the Middle East this week, the extremist Islamic State group that holds a third of both Iraq and Syria destroyed ancient artifacts and kidnapped more than 200 Christians. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18290[/attach] An overnight drone strike killed three suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen, a country where the United States is the only power operating the unmanned aircraft, a tribal source said Monday. The late Sunday strike in the Markha district of the southern province of Shabwa also wounded another three suspected militants, the source told AFP. On Saturday, a drone strike on a vehicle killed three militants in the village of Bijan. Yemen has descended into chaos since a Shiite militia overran the capital Sanaa last September. Continue reading...

LONDON (AP) — The U.S. Army chief of staff says cuts in British defense spending may undermine the nation's ability to be an effective ally in future military operations. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18289[/attach] ISTANBUL (AP) — Political leaders and fellow writers are among thousands who gathered for the funeral of Yasar Kemal, one of Turkey's best-known novelists. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18288[/attach] GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday delivered a vigorous defense of Israel before the U.N. Human Rights Council, urging its members to end what the United States says is its unfair and biased focus on the Jewish State that could undermine its credibility. His remarks came as the Obama administration attempts to blunt complaints that it has not been strong enough in its support for Israel, criticism now centered on its pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18287[/attach] KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan army is waging its largest-ever solo offensive against the Taliban, hoping to strike a decisive blow ahead of the spring fighting season and prove it can rout the insurgents without the aid of U.S. and NATO combat troops. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18286[/attach] KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two airplane catastrophes put Malaysia on the map in a bad way in 2014. But they didn't hurt the country's tourism, and the higher visibility may even have helped: visitor numbers had their strongest growth in years. Continue reading...