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[attach=full]20051[/attach] JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Zimbabwe's president has arrived in South Africa for his first official state visit in more than 20 years. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20050[/attach] SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of workers staged rallies in 12 cities across Brazil on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that would allow companies to outsource their labor force. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20049[/attach] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. scientists on Tuesday completed a nearly two-week mission to explore waters around the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of a 12-year project to map the Caribbean seafloor and help protect its reefs. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20048[/attach] AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods felt right at home at Augusta National, a golf course he has been playing since 1995. He said he is fascinated that the course keeps making subtle changes, and yet it looks as though it hasn't been touched. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20038[/attach] A Canadian senator at the center of an expenses scandal pleaded not guilty Tuesday at the start of a fraud trial which threatens to cast a shadow over Prime Minister Stephen Harper's bid for re-election. Senator Mike Duffy faces 31 charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust related to his government expense claims, and for Can$90,172.24 ($72,155) he received from Canadian leader Harper's then chief-of-staff, Nigel Wright. Continue reading...

SYDNEY (AP) — Canterbury Bulldogs captain James Graham and forward David Klemmer have been suspended after pleading guilty to "contrary conduct" charges against a National Rugby League referee which led to dozens of water bottles being thrown at match officials at Sydney's Olympic stadium. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20037[/attach] SANAA, Yemen (AP) — As tons of desperately needed medical supplies await clearance to be flown into Yemen, aid workers warned Tuesday of an unfolding humanitarian crisis, saying at least 560 people, including dozens of children, have been killed, mostly in a Saudi-led air campaign and battles between Shiite rebels and forces loyal to the embattled president. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20036[/attach] FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Sebastian Kehl fired a spectacular long-distance volley in extra time to give Borussia Dortmund a 3-2 victory over Hoffenheim on Tuesday and a place in the semifinals of the German Cup. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20035[/attach] Christian Benteke scored a potentially priceless hat-trick as Aston Villa avoided slipping into the Premier League relegation zone by drawing 3-3 at home to Queens Park Rangers on Tuesday. After Matt Phillips put QPR ahead, a Benteke brace gave Villa control, only for second-half goals from Clint Hill and Charlie Austin to leave QPR on the brink of a win that would have taken them out of the bottom three at their opponents' expense. Continue reading...

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge rejected a bid by two women to join a high-profile sexual abuse lawsuit and ordered scandalous sex allegations against Britain's Prince Andrew and a prominent U.S. lawyer removed from the court record. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20024[/attach] Hollywood actor Edward Norton is lending his voice to a radio advertisement in his home state of Maryland paid for by a consumer rights group calling for a moratorium on the drilling process known as fracking. In the ad, released on Tuesday, Norton advocates a state ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a controversial technique that involves pumping water, sand and chemicals into a well to extract oil or gas. The radio spot backs fracking moratorium legislation passed by the Maryland Senate on Monday. In it, Norton speaks about how fracking could harm Maryland’s environment, public health and the state's tourism industry, according to a statement released by activists opposed to the practice. Continue reading...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An attack on a police convoy in the western Mexico state of Jalisco killed 15 state police officers and wounded five, marking the deadliest single attack on police in Mexico in recent memory. Continue reading...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Jordan circulated a draft U.N. resolution Tuesday aimed at halting the escalating conflict in Yemen, where Houthi Shiite rebels and their allies are fighting supporters of the country's embattled president. Continue reading...

VITORIA, Spain (AP) — Fabio Felline of Italy won the second stage of the Tour of the Basque Country on Tuesday after finishing half a wheel-length ahead of Australia's Michael Matthews, who retains the overall lead. Continue reading...

Islamist militants killed three Tunisia soldiers and wounded three more in an attack on Tuesday on a military checkpoint in the central region of Kasserine. Tunisian forces have tightened security and recently killed nine militants from a group officials blamed for orchestrating last month's Bardo museum attack in which two gunmen killed 21 foreign tourists. Army spokesman Belhassen Ousalti said the checkpoint was attacked near the town of Sbitla, close to the mountain range that borders neighbouring Algeria. Since its 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has seen the rise of ultra-conservative Islamists. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20016[/attach] Two turkey farms in Canada have been placed under quarantine after H5 bird flu was detected in one of them, Canadian health authorities said. Preliminary testing confirmed the presence of H5 in a farm near Woodstock, Ontario, after the sudden deaths of birds over several days, the The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday. Continue reading...

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African authorities stopped a 15-year-old girl believed to be travelling to join Islamic State from taking a flight in Cape Town, the state security ministry said on Tuesday, the country's first known detention linked to the militant group. The ministry said in a statement it was investigating whether Islamic State, which has overrun large areas of Syria and Iraq, had a recruitment network in South Africa. The teenager had tried to take a domestic flight on Sunday to Johannesburg, South Africa's main international hub. The ministry did not give her name or say where she was heading after that, but the Star newspaper reported she had been planning to fly to Turkey before travelling by road to join Islamic State in Syria. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20015[/attach] Every one of Africa's 54 member countries will vote for Sepp Blatter in next month's FIFA presidential election, the continent's soccer boss said on Tuesday, referring to the 79-year-old Swiss as "dear Sepp." Continue reading...

[attach=full]20014[/attach] The Islamic State group has beheaded four men for armed robbery and murder in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, according to an online propaganda video seen by AFP Tuesday. The undated video portrays the group, which has been steadily retreating recently from Iraqi forces backed by Iran and a US-led coalition, as still capable of maintaining law and order and dispensing justice. Earlier in the video, allegedly stolen money is shown being returned to its owners, who make thumbprints in a receipt book. Nineveh, where the video was said to have been shot, was the first to fall to the IS-led drive and is still the jihadist group's main stronghold in the country. Continue reading...

Three unidentified militants were killed in clashes with Lebanese soldiers who launched an operation near the Syrian border early on Tuesday to retake control of a hilltop, the Lebanese army said. The area around Al-Makheirma hill outside Ras Baalbek village has seen regular incursions from Islamist militants fighting in Syria's war. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20011[/attach] By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) - Southern Yemeni militias backed by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked Houthi fighters across several provinces in south Yemen on Monday, driving the Shi'ite rebel forces from some of their positions, witnesses and militia sources said. The southern militias' gains came on the 12th day of an air campaign by Saudi Arabia and mainly Gulf Arab allies trying to stem advances by the Iran-allied Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa and have advanced on the southern city of Aden. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, cut off water and electricity supplies and led the United Nations children's agency UNICEF to warn that Yemen is heading towards a humanitarian disaster. Saudi Arabia, the main Sunni Arab power in the Gulf, launched the air campaign on March 26 to try to contain the Shi'ite Houthis and restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who has fled Aden for refuge in Riyadh. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20010[/attach] BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forensic teams in the newly liberated city of Tikrit have started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain some of the hundreds of soldiers killed by Islamic State militants last year, a government spokesman said Tuesday. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20009[/attach] The fate of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be entrusted to jurors Tuesday when they start deliberating the guilt of the 21-year-old American accused of carrying out the deadly 2013 attacks. Three people were killed and 264 others wounded in the twin blasts at the city's marathon, the worst attack in the United States since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Government prosecutors portrayed the Muslim immigrant, who became a US citizen in 2012, as a callous terrorist who carried out the bombings to bring holy war to the northeastern US city and punish the United States. From Tuesday, the jury must decide whether Tsarnaev is guilty on 30 counts related to the April 15, 2013 attacks, and the subsequent murder of a police officer, a car jacking and a shootout with police while on the run. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20008[/attach] India has asked France's Dassault Aviation SA to stick to the original price tag for fighter jets or risk losing one of the world's biggest military aircraft deals, the Times of India reported on Tuesday. The deal is back in focus as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits France this week. The deal was initially worth $12 billion but is now widely estimated to have jumped to $20 billion, primarily because of the implications of building some of the jets in India. Chief Executive Eric Trappier told India's PTI agency in February that the pricing had remained the same from day one. Continue reading...

NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth man was charged on Monday in a terrorism case accusing him of raising money for a plot to have U.S. residents travel overseas to fight for the Islamic State group. Continue reading...