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MOSCOW/BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had no intention of invading eastern Ukraine following its annexation of Crimea, while the Black Sea peninsula’s Muslim Tatars demanded autonomy.

SYDNEY/PERTH (Reuters) – Chinese ships trawled a new area in the Indian Ocean for a missing Malaysian passenger jet yesterday, as the search for Flight MH370 entered its fourth week amid a series of false dawns over sightings of debris.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s National Assembly passed a new foreign investment law yesterday that aims to bring badly needed capital to the communist economy by offering steep tax cuts and promising a climate of investment security.

DAKAR/CONAKRY (Reuters) – Senegal closed its land border with Guinea yesterday to try to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, which Guinean authorities say is suspected of killing 70 people in what would be the deadliest outbreak in seven years.

MOSCOW,(Reuters) – Russia said today it had “no intention” of invading eastern Ukraine, responding to Western warnings over a military buildup on the border following Moscow’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin called U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday to discuss a U.S.

Veteran Bollywood star Nanda has died of a heart attack aged 75, the BBC reported.

TRENTON, N.J.,  (Reuters) – Governor Chris Christie yesterday said the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had resigned, a day after an internal investigation cleared Christie in the “Bridgegate” scandal engulfing the potential 2016 Republican presidential contender.

  VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis surprised his own master of ceremonies on Friday by confessing his sins to an ordinary priest in St.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron hailed Britain’s first gay marriages yesterday, saying marriage was not something that should be denied to anyone because of their sexuality.

SYDNEY/PERTH,  (Reuters) – Australian authorities said today they were shifting the focus of their Indian Ocean search for the wreckage of Malaysia’s missing jet, moving it 1,100 km (685 miles) to the northeast after receiving new information from Malaysia.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – James Schlesinger, who served three U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, in the top posts at the Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon and Energy Department in the 1970s, died yesterday at age 85.

MISSOULA, Mont.,  (Reuters) – A Montana bride who shoved her husband off a cliff at Glacier National Park was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday after a federal judge denied her request to withdraw her guilty plea to a charge of second-degree murder.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Russian aluminium producer Rusal dealt a stunning setback to London Metal Exchange plans to cut logjams in warehouses, winning a court decision to halt the reform because consultations had been “unfair and unlawful”.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – High winds and icy weather halted the air search today for a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet presumed crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, just as new satellite images emerged showing what could be a large debris field from the plane.

  SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Aircraft and ships scouring the southern Indian Ocean for wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were racing to beat bad weather yesterday and reach an area where new satellite images showed what could be a debris field.

NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) – A species of crow native to islands east of Australia has long wowed scientists with its intelligence, and now it has shown it can solve at least one puzzle as well as the average 7-year-old child, scientists reported on Wednesday.

CAIRO, March 26 (Reuters) – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted Egypt’s first freely elected leader, declared his candidacy yesterday for a presidential election he is expected to easily win.

BRUSSELS/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The United States and the European Union agreed yesterday to work together to prepare possible tougher economic sanctions in response to Russia’s behaviour in Ukraine, including on the energy sector, and to make Europe less dependent on Russian gas.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A large international team of scientists has built the clearest picture yet of how human genes are regulated in the vast array of cell types in the body – work that should help researchers target genes linked to disease.