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[attach=full]18010[/attach] PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — No one summed up the 10th hole at Riviera as well as Ryo Ishikawa of Japan. Continue reading...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Playing for the first time since winning the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic came through with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Vasek Pospisil on Tuesday in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships. Continue reading...

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA's longest-standing executive committee member, Belgian doctor Michel D'Hooghe, has been cleared of four allegations of wrongdoing in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests. Continue reading...

[attach=full]18000[/attach] WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday defended the Obama administration's nuclear negotiations with Iran, saying the U.S. policy is to prevent the Iranians from getting atomic weapons. Continue reading...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings in Iraq, including twin blasts in a busy street in a Baghdad suburb, killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17999[/attach] JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's opposition leader said Tuesday that the upcoming speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.S. Congress warning against an emerging nuclear deal with Iran is "spin" aimed at political gain at home ahead of March elections. Continue reading...

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities on Tuesday announced the breakup of a ring dedicated to recruiting young women to join the Islamic State extremist group, part of a push by European nations to stop citizens from traveling to Syria and Iraq, to reduce the risk of them returning home to carry out terror attacks. Continue reading...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog said its head had a constructive meeting with Iran's top negotiator in talks over Tehran's atomic program on Tuesday, days after a U.N. report found cooperation had stalled. "Today's meeting was useful and facilitated a better understanding between the two sides," the International Atomic Energy Agency said after its Director General Yukiya Amano and Iran's Abbas Araqchi met in Vienna. "The discussions focused on the need to resolve, as soon as possible, all outstanding issues related to Iran’s nuclear program," a statement said. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17998[/attach] The Arab League said Tuesday that it would hold its annual summit on March 28-29 in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, with national security topping the agenda. Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said he met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday to prepare for the high-level talks. "The main topic of the summit will be how to maintain national security in Arab countries," Arabi told reporters at the League's Cairo headquarters. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17997[/attach] FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European stocks drifted sideways as investors awaited remarks from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to glean any hints on when interest rates might go up. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17996[/attach] Chris Gayle could barely believe it when the first ball he faced crashed into his pad, because he knew he needed a lucky break to reverse a run of bad form. Continue reading...

BERLIN (AP) — German police are raiding premises linked to biker gang Satudarah after authorities issued a ban against the group. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17989[/attach] Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine's port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev said, fuelling concerns for the fate of a UN-backed ceasefire. Continued hostilities meant a pull-back of heavy weapons could not go ahead as agreed, Ukrainian officials said. "As Ukrainian positions are still being fired upon there can be no talk yet of a withdrawal of arms," military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov wrote in a statement on Facebook on Monday. Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, plummeted some 10 percent on Monday because of the instability. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17988[/attach] CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Chris Gayle bludgeoned his way into the World Cup records with his career-high 215 containing 16 sixes and his 372-run partnership with Marlon Samuels (133 not out) lifting West Indies to 372-2 against Zimbabwe in a Pool B match on Tuesday. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17987[/attach] At least five drones were spotted flying over central Paris landmarks during the night and police were unable to catch the operators, a security source said Tuesday. The first drone sighting was near the US embassy in the French capital. The Eiffel Tower, the Place de la Concorde and the Invalides military museum "were also flown over" in the early hours of Tuesday, the source said. On January 20, a pilotless aircraft briefly went over the presidential palace in Paris, while around 20 drones were earlier seen flying above nuclear power plants. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17986[/attach] PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Construction of a massive dam in southwestern Cambodia will not start until at least 2018, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday, in an apparent effort to stop heavy opposition to the project which has focused criticism on him. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17979[/attach] A sophisticated tunnel has been discovered near a major sporting venue and a university in Toronto, reports said Monday, with Canada on edge over the threat of possible extremist attacks. A municipal worker was walking through woods near York University and the Rexall Center last month when he spotted a piece of corrugated metal on the ground, lifted it up and found a passageway, the public broadcaster CBC said. Toronto is hosting the Pan American Games in July and the Rexall Center is one of the venues. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17978[/attach] British lawmakers rejected a bid to explicitly outlaw abortion based on the gender of the foetus on Monday. Health minister Jane Ellison had argued against the bid, saying that abortion on the grounds of whether the foetus is male or female was "already illegal". "It is necessary because there is no explicit statement about gender selective abortion in UK law," said lawmaker Fiona Bruce as she proposed the amendment. Yet those opposed had argued that an explicit ban would be unenforceable and have unintended consequences such as complicating women's access to abortion. Continue reading...

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Monday found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for supporting terrorist attacks in Israel more than a decade ago that killed dozens of people. Jurors in Manhattan federal court awarded $218.5 million in damages to 10 American families who brought the case, a sum that is automatically tripled to $655.5 million under a 1992 U.S. anti-terrorism law, lawyers for the families said. Both defendants said they would appeal. Last September, a federal jury in Brooklyn found Arab Bank Plc liable for providing material support to Hamas. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17977[/attach] A UN report is calling for drones to be deployed in most peacekeeping missions as part of a major technological leap needed to help the United Nations confront world crises, the lead expert of the study said Monday. The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN's largest peace force, has been using surveillance drones to monitor rebel groups in the east. "This is essential technology for missions on the ground. Most missions should have it," said Jane Hotte Lule, head of the five-member panel that prepared the report on technology and innovation in UN peacekeeping. Continue reading...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic have closed a plastic surgery clinic in the city of Santiago after two deaths. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17976[/attach] An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading dissident in the 2011 uprising that toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak, to five years in prison over an illegal protest. The remaining 24 defendants in the case received sentences ranging from three to 15 years. The defendants in the caged dock mockingly applauded when the judge pronounced the verdict, as relatives and supporters in the courtroom chanted: "Down with military rule". Once described by the authorities as an "icon of the revolution" of 2011, Abdel Fattah had initially been sentenced to 15 years in jail but a court ordered a retrial. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17975[/attach] French President Francois Hollande vowed Monday to introduce tougher penalties for "racist, anti-semitic or homophobic" remarks in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks in Paris. Hollande said anti-semitism should be treated as an aggravating circumstance in the prosecution of all offences. Earlier Monday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that the authorities had confiscated the passports of six people suspected of planning to travel to the Middle East to wage jihad. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17974[/attach] The drinks, in fact past their sell-by date, were intended for sale in Burkina Faso and were imported from Tunisia, via Togo. At least 12 people have been arrested, said Oumar Soulama, the officer in charge of the investigation. The director of the company importing the soft drinks was among those arrested. Continue reading...

[attach=full]17973[/attach] Almost 15,000 Egyptians have flocked home from war-torn Libya via the border crossing at Sallum, state media reported Monday, after Islamic State group jihadists murdered 21 Coptic Christians. Last week Egyptian and Libyan warplanes hit IS targets inside Libya after the jihadists released a gruesome video on February 15 showing the Christians, 20 of them Egyptian, being beheaded. Cairo has since urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya to leave, and also chartered planes to fly many of them home from Tunisia, Libya's western neighbour. At least 14,585 have heeded the call and returned through Sallum in northwest Egypt, state news agency MENA reported. Continue reading...