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KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s interim leadership pledged to put the country back on course for European integration now Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich had been ousted from the presidency, while the United States warned Russia against sending in its forces.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A 110-year-old woman believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust and who endured the ordeal partly through her passion for music, has died in London, her family said yesterday.

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament voted yesterday to remove President Viktor Yanukovich, who abandoned his Kiev office to protesters and denounced what he described as a coup after a week of fighting in the streets of the capital.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s most wanted man, drug kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, has been captured in Mexico by US and Mexican law enforcement officials, sources said on Saturday, in what would mark a major coup in a grisly fight against drug gangs.

KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament voted today to remove President Viktor Yanukovich, who abandoned his Kiev office to protesters and denounced what he described as a coup after a week of fighting in the streets of the capital.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s opposition leaders signed an EU-mediated peace pact with President Viktor Yanukovich yesterday, winning a raft of concessions in a delicate deal to end violence that killed at least 77 people and turned the capital into a battle zone.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama held low-key talks with the Dalai Lama at the White House yesterday after warnings from Beijing that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would “seriously damage” ties with Washington.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich announced concessions to his pro-European opponents today, including a plan to hold early elections, but it was unclear whether the opposition would accept such an EU-mediated deal to end a violent crisis.

KIEV, (Reuters) – European Union ministers sought to broker a political settlement in Ukraine after gun battles between police and anti-government protesters brought the death toll to 75 in two days of the worst violence in the country since Soviet times.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators faced off in streets blocked by burning barricades in several provincial cities yesterday as protests escalated against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan suspended Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi yesterday, removing an increasingly outspoken critic of the government’s record on tackling rampant corruption in Africa’s leading energy producer.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A Haitian appellate court yesterday ruled that deposed dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier could be charged with crimes against humanity under international law and that he may also be held responsible for abuses committed by the army and paramilitary under his rule.

PANAMA CITY/ MADRID,  (Reuters) – A Spanish-led consortium resumed expansion work on the Panama Canal yesterday, raising hopes the two sides will finally draw a line under an acrimonious stand-off over massive cost overruns.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York City’s secret police surveillance of mosques, Muslim businesses and a Muslim student group in New Jersey did not violate the U.S.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australian scientists have discovered a new species of marsupial, about the size of a mouse, which conduct marathon mating sessions that often prove fatal for the male.

KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said he had reached agreement with opposition leaders on a “truce” to halt fighting that has killed 26 people, even as the United States stepped up pressure by imposing travel bans on 20 senior Ukrainian officials.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A local beauty queen died of a gunshot wound yesterday in the fifth fatality from Venezuela’s political unrest, as imprisoned protest leader Leopoldo Lopez urged supporters to keep fighting for the departure of the socialist government.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Nebraska court yesterday voided the governor’s decision to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to pass through the Midwestern state, creating another snag for the controversial project to link Canada’s oil sands with refineries in Texas.

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world’s largest social network closer to the heart of mobile communications and may bring younger users into the fold.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former British prime minister Tony Blair offered to act as a secret adviser to Rupert Murdoch during his media empire’s phone-hacking scandal, suggesting the firm follow steps he took to calm public anger over the Iraq war, a London court heard yesterday.