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- Israeli airstrikes near Lebanon-Syria border
Israeli airstrikes: Residents in Nabi Sheet, a remote village in the eastern Bekaa Valley, reported hearing several explosions late Monday, but the nature of the blasts was unclear.
- Uganda's president signs new anti-gay law
President Yoweri Museveni is concerned about a 'social imperialism' creeping into his African nation from the West.
- Taliban ends talks on prisoner exchange
The Afghan organization was in talks to exchange senior prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for for a captured US soldier.
- Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman captured at Mexico beach resort
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, was captured at beach resort in Mazatlan, Mexico. Guzman is considered one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.
- Did attempted rape ignite Venezuela's national protests?
Student protests began at the University of the Andes in San Cristobal, Venezuela, after an attempted rape of a college woman. A week later, the protests boiled over into a violent national uprising.
- Ukraine parliament votes to oust President Viktor Yanukovich
The Ukrainian parliament declared the president constitutionally unable to carry out his duties and set an election for May 25. President Yanukovich said he would not resign or leave the country, and called the decisions by parliament "a coup d'etat."
- Maersk Alabama security officers found dead in Seychelles
Maersk Alabama deaths: The police gave no cause of death but said a post mortem has been scheduled.
- Venezuela beauty queen dies in Valencia protests
Venezuela beauty queen, Genesis Carmona, a 22-year-old university student, was shot during protests in Valencia, Venezuela. Carmona had been Miss Tourism 2013 beauty queen for the state of Carabobo.
- Ukraine: What a truce might mean
As violence continued in Kiev, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich reached an agreement with opposition leaders to end bloodshed. In the meantime the European Union mulled sanctions and the U.S. imposed travel bans on 20 Ukrainian government officials.
- North Korean captures another Christian missionary
An Australian missionary, John Short, who carried Christian pamphlets into North Korea, has been detained. Last year, American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea.
- Pussy Riot arrest threatens to dim Putin's Olympic glow
Pussy Riot arrest: Members of the protest group Pussy Riot were detained for about three hours at a police station in Sochi, briefly diverting the world's gaze from Russia's Olympic Games.
- Barbados earthquake strikes early, with no apparent damage
Barbados earthquake was a magnitude 6.5. The Barbados earthquake was centered off the coast of the Caribbean island.
- Violence in Ukraine leaves four dead
Police and antigovernment protesters clashed Tuesday outside Ukraine's parliament in Kiev, resulting in many injured.
- Venezuela braces for more protest clashes
Competing demonstrations loom one day after President Maduro gave three US Embassy officials 48 hours to leave Venezuela, claiming they're supporting opposition plots to topple his administration.
- Pussy Riot arrest: Why punk band members jailed in Sochi
Pussy Riot arrest: Two members the punk rock protest band, were detained by police in Sochi Tuesday. Pussy Riot members have been critical of President Putin.
- North Korea: Luxury amid crimes against humanity, UN says
North Korea doubled spending on luxury imports, such as whiskey and cognac. A UN report says North Korea engaged in torture, arbitrary detention, summary execution, forced abortion and other forms of sexual violence.
- Miners trapped: Now freed from debris, some stay trapped for fear of arrest
Miners, trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, faced a miserable choice: Stay underground or emerge and be arrested for illegal mining. So far, 21 miners have emerged, but hundreds more may remain trapped in the mine.
- Karrie Webb battles strong winds to win her fifth Australian Open
Karrie Webb won the Women's Australian Open for the fifth time Sunday, a huge reversal from last week's Australian Ladies Masters, when Karrie Webb was disqualified after signing an incorrect scorecard.
- Hijacked aircraft: Why co-pilot seeks asylum in Switzerland
Hijacked aircraft: An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot locked the plane's captain out of the cockpit and flew the Boeing 767-300 to Geneva. Passengers didn't know the aircraft had been hijacked.
- Protesters vacate Kiev City Hall, rally in Independence Square
While Kiev demonstrators left city hall peacefully Sunday and riot police pulled back, tensions remained high. Several thousand rallied in Independence Square later in the day, calling for a new government and threatening to retake city hall.