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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – The United States told Russia to demonstrate in coming days that it was sincere about its promise not to intervene in Ukraine as armed men stormed the regional parliament and hours later others seized the airport in a mainly ethnic Russian region.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The World Bank yesterday postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda’s health system over a law that toughened punishment for gays, an unusual move for an institution that typically avoids wading into politics.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – After a 14-month manhunt in four countries, a Cuban man accused of a $2.8 million Miami gold heist is in custody in Belize and could be headed back to the United States to face charges, authorities and a private investigator said yesterday.

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Armed men seized the regional government headquarters and parliament in Ukraine’s Crimea today and raised the Russian flag, alarming Kiev’s new rulers, who urged Moscow not to abuse its navy base rights on the peninsula by moving troops around.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – A second audio recording, presented as the voice of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan asking his son not to accept an amount of money on offer in a business deal but to hold out for more, was published on YouTube by an anonymous poster using a pseudonym yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. senators lashed out at federal prosecutors yesterday for a lack of zeal in going after Swiss banks that helped Americans dodge taxes, blaming both sides for billions of dollars in missed revenues.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has sent subpoenas to Mt.

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Waving the Russian flag and chanting “Russia!

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Sweden’s greatest unsolved murder mystery has taken another twist – revelations that Swedish crime blockbuster novelist writer Stieg Larsson had sent police evidence linking Prime Minister Olof Palme’s 1986 murder to South Africa.

TOKYO/ST LOUIS, (Reuters) – Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, abruptly stopped trading yesterday and its chief executive said the business was at “a turning point,” sparking concerns about the future of the unregulated virtual currency.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday ordered three Venezuelan diplomats to leave in reprisal for President Nicolas Maduro’s expulsion of three American embassy staff accused of fomenting unrest that has killed at least 13 people.

  SAN JOSE, Costa Rica,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica will ask the International Court of Justice to settle a decade-old maritime border dispute with Nicaragua related to potential oil concessions, President Laura Chinchilla said on Monday.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament voted yesterday to send fugitive President Viktor Yanukovich to the International Criminal Court, while his acting successor expressed concern about “signs of separatism” in Russian-speaking Crimea.

By Asit K Biswas and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe   SINGAPORE – During its recent gathering in Davos, the World Economic Forum released its ninth annual Global Risks Report, which relies on a survey of more than 700 business leaders, government officials, and non-profit actors to identify the world’s most serious risks in the next decade.

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s fugitive president was indicted for “mass murder” yesterday over the shooting of demonstrators as new leaders in Kiev sought urgent Western aid to make up for a loss of funding from Russia, which is angry at the overthrow of its ally.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Anti-government demonstrators put up barricades and set fire to trash in Caracas yesterday despite calls from within the opposition to rein in protests that have led to 13 deaths in Venezuela’s worst unrest for a decade.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s government resigned yesterday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic US ally gripped by political strife.

ENTEBBE, Uganda (Reuters) – Uganda’s president signed a law imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality yesterday, defying protests from rights groups, criticism from Western donors and a US warning that it will complicate relations.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia’s second-biggest guerrilla group, was behind the attack this weekend on a leftist presidential candidate, the country’s top defence official said yesterday.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was on the run today, possibly somewhere in southern Ukraine, hunted by police for “mass murder” linked to the revolt against his rule in which scores have been killed.