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• Obama arrives in Havana for historic visit to former Cold War foe
• Turkey says Istanbul suicide bomber was member of Islamic State
• Syria peace talks grind toward pivotal Assad question
• Brazil's Rousseff lacks Senate votes to defeat impeachment: senator
• Belgium says captured Paris suspect may have planned more attacks
• Iran's leader says U.S. still hostile after nuclear deal
• Turnout low in Senegal vote on constitutional change
• Teenager Cunningham steals the show at the world indoors
• Buffon sets new Serie A record in Juve's 4-1 win at Torino
• Colombia's FARC rebels to meet Kerry in Cuba during Obama trip: sources
• Pro-Israel policy conference nervously awaits Trump speech
• Brazil's Lula victim of 'intimidation' campaign: foundation
• Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula
• 'What's up Cuba?' -- Obama starts historic visit
• Woody Austin wins PGA Tour Champions event in Tucson
• Monaco wins 2-0 at lackluster leader PSG in French league
• The Latest: Some applause for Obama during Old Havana tour
• Sibling rivalry spurs Dibaba toward Rio
• Two dead, 54 injured as rival Casablanca fans clash
• Juventus 'keeper Buffon finally beaten after Serie A record
• Spain bus crash kills 13 exchange students; 34 injured
• Late Jonas goal restores Benfica's lead in Portugal
• WT20: Fletcher hits 84, WIndies beats Sri Lanka by 7 wickets
• Turkey will 'never surrender to terror', Erdogan says
• Tennis tourney director: Women 'ride on coattails of men'
• Barca draws 2-2 at Villarreal, extends Liga lead to 9 points
• Benin votes in second-round of presidential election
• Rashford gives United 1-0 win over City in Manchester derby
• Hernani scores twice as Olympiakos beats Asteras 2-1
• Coach carrying foreign students crashes in Spain, killing 13
• Top ANC officials rally behind S.Africa's embattled Zuma
• Congo police fire tear gas at opposition supporters: AFP
• Sassou Nguesso seeks to extend 32-year rule in Congo vote
• Belgian lawyer vows fight over Paris attacks suspect
• Tunisia dissident forms own political party
• Brazil poll shows strong support for president's impeachment
• Anker Joergensen, Danish former prime minister, dies at 93
• Syrian opposition rejects any election-related delay to peace talks
• Cuba breaks up weekly dissident march hours before Obama visit

Obama arrives in Havana for historic visit to former Cold War foe Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:24 PM PDT By Matt Spetalnick, Daniel Trotta, Jeff Mason and Frank Jack Daniel HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday on a historic visit, opening a new chapter in U.S. engagement with the island's Communist government after decades of animosity between the former Cold War foes. Obama landed at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport aboard Air Force One, the presidential jet with "United States of America" emblazoned across its fuselage, a sight almost unimaginable not long ago. Stepping down onto the red carpet in a light drizzle, Obama and his family were greeted by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, the top Cuban official present.

Turkey says Istanbul suicide bomber was member of Islamic State Posted: 20 Mar 2016 11:21 AM PDT By Ece Toksabay and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish member of the Islamic State militant group was responsible for Saturday's suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed three Israelis and an Iranian, Turkey's interior minister said. The attack in Istiklal Street, Istanbul's most popular shopping district, is the fourth such bombing in Turkey this year and the second one by Islamist militants. In January a suicide bomber blew himself up in Istanbul's historic heart, killing 12 German tourists.

Syria peace talks grind toward pivotal Assad question Posted: 20 Mar 2016 08:24 AM PDT By Tom Miles and Suleiman Al-Khalidi GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government negotiators at Geneva peace talks are coming under unaccustomed pressure to discuss something far outside their comfort zone: the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura describes Syria's political transition as "the mother of all issues" and, emboldened by the Russian and U.S. muscle that brought the participants to the negotiating table, he refuses to drop the subject. "But I hope next week, and I have been saying so to them, that we will get their opinion, their details on how they see the political transition taking place." Arguments over Assad's fate were a major cause of the failure of previous U.N. peace efforts in 2012 and 2014 to end a civil war that has now lasted five years, killed more than 250,000 people and caused a refugee crisis.

Brazil's Rousseff lacks Senate votes to defeat impeachment: senator Posted: 20 Mar 2016 11:33 AM PDT By Anthony Boadle and Tatiana Bautzer BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's ruling coalition lacks the votes in the Senate to defeat a request to remove left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff from office if it is approved by the lower house, a senior senator in the coalition's largest party said on Sunday. The leading member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the issue, told Reuters the coalition could not rally the one-third of votes needed in the 81-seat Senate to stop Rousseff being dismissed. On Sunday, Estadao newspaper quoted sources close to Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros, also a member of the PMDB, as saying he believed that if the lower house approves the ongoing impeachment process it would create an unstoppable wave of support for removing Rousseff.

Belgium says captured Paris suspect may have planned more attacks Posted: 20 Mar 2016 10:51 AM PDT By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The prime surviving suspect in the Paris attacks may have been plotting more operations with the help of a weapons cache and a network of associates, Belgium's foreign minister said on Sunday. Didier Reynders, speaking two days after the capture of Salah Abdeslam, said the suspect's first statement to a magistrate in Brussels suggested further attacks were planned. "He was ready to restart something from Brussels," Reynders told a think-tank event.

Iran's leader says U.S. still hostile after nuclear deal Posted: 20 Mar 2016 09:14 AM PDT By Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States is still fundamentally hostile to Iran and its policies have undermined the benefits of sanctions relief, the Islamic Republic's hardline leader said on Sunday, warning Iranians not to trust their old enemy. Ringing in a new Iranian year at a televised rally in the Shi'ite holy city of Mashhad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said fear of U.S. regulations was keeping big foreign companies, particularly in the financial sector, away from Iran. The uncompromising stance of Iran's most senior figure poses a challenge to President Hassan Rouhani, the architect of last year's nuclear deal who hopes to open Iran's economy to the world.

Turnout low in Senegal vote on constitutional change Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:50 PM PDT Turnout was low for Senegal's controversial referendum on sweeping constitutional reforms on Sunday, including cutting the presidential term from seven to five years. There were no queues and few voters visible in polling stations visited by AFP in areas of the capital in the early morning. "Voters are trickling in," said an official in a polling station.

Teenager Cunningham steals the show at the world indoors Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:49 PM PDT PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — High school senior Vashti Cunningham, daughter of former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham, became the youngest high jump champion ever at the world indoor track and field championships on Sunday.

Buffon sets new Serie A record in Juve's 4-1 win at Torino Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:43 PM PDT MILAN (AP) — Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon set a Serie A record on Sunday for not conceding a goal, while Napoli forward Gonzalo Higuain closed in on a league record of his own.

Colombia's FARC rebels to meet Kerry in Cuba during Obama trip: sources Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:33 PM PDT By Nelson Acosta and Luis Jaime Acosta HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Members of Colombia's Marxist FARC guerrillas will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a negotiator for the rebels and two Colombian sources with knowledge of the peace talks said on Sunday. A meeting with Kerry will be the first time a U.S. secretary of state has met the negotiators from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who have been talking peace with the Colombian government in Havana for more than three years. A source at Colombia's Office of the High Commissioner for Peace and another source close to the government confirmed the Kerry meeting and said it would take place on Monday.

Pro-Israel policy conference nervously awaits Trump speech Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — As America's leading pro-Israel group prepares to hear from nearly all the presidential candidates, most eyes in the crowd of thousands of participants will be on Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Brazil's Lula victim of 'intimidation' campaign: foundation Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:23 PM PDT Sao Paulo (AFP) - Lawyers for Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appealed to the Supreme Court Sunday to annul a ruling blocking his appointment as cabinet chief, as his foundation condemned the judiciary's "intimidation" campaign.

Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:21 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A large, magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit in the Pacific Ocean off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Sunday. There was no danger of a Pacific-wide tsunami from the quake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The quake struck at a depth of 18.4 miles (30 km) and was centered 140 miles (225 km) west-southwest of Nilol'skoye, Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia, the USGS said. (Reporting by Peter Cooney; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

'What's up Cuba?' -- Obama starts historic visit Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:21 PM PDT Barack Obama on Sunday became the first US president in 88 years to visit Cuba, hailing an "historic opportunity" to cast aside decades of Cold War enmity with the communist state. A smiling Obama then emerged from Air Force One with his wife Michelle and their two daughters Sasha and Malia, clutching umbrellas to shield themselves from a warm afternoon rain shower. Obama is not only the first sitting US leader to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro's guerrillas overthrew the US-backed government of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, but the first since President Calvin Coolidge in 1928.

Woody Austin wins PGA Tour Champions event in Tucson Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:19 PM PDT TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Woody Austin holed out for eagle from a greenside bunker on the par-5 15th and held on to win the Tucson Conquistadores Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title.

Monaco wins 2-0 at lackluster leader PSG in French league Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:19 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Runaway French champion Paris Saint-Germain slipped to only its second league defeat of the season after losing 2-0 at home to second-place Monaco on Sunday night.

The Latest: Some applause for Obama during Old Havana tour Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:18 PM PDT HAVANA (AP) — The Latest on President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba (all times local):

Sibling rivalry spurs Dibaba toward Rio Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:13 PM PDT Genzebe Dibaba has set her sights on emulating her big sister's Olympic exploits after making a successful defence of her 3,000m crown at the World Indoor Championships here Sunday. The 25-year-old Ethiopian distance runner has become accustomed to living in the shadow of elder sibling Tirunesh, the three-time Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion. Dibaba laughed off comparisons with her sister, emphasizing that her achievements so far were modest in comparison.

Two dead, 54 injured as rival Casablanca fans clash Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:05 PM PDT Two people were killed and 54 injured in Morocco's largest city on Saturday when rival fans of its Raja de Casablanca football club brawled after a home game. The running battles, in which fans threw flares and ripped up parts of the Mohammed V stadium, came despite a 2-1 victory for the home team over Chabab Rif Al Hoceima of Al Hoceima in northern Morocco. Following the violence, the Moroccan football federation's disciplinary commission penalised Raja by forcing them to play their next five matches in the tournament behind closed doors.

Juventus 'keeper Buffon finally beaten after Serie A record Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:03 PM PDT TURIN, Italy (AP) — Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon set a Serie A record on Sunday for not conceding a goal, going 974 consecutive minutes before he was finally beaten — by a penalty kick.

Spain bus crash kills 13 exchange students; 34 injured Posted: 20 Mar 2016 03:56 PM PDT MADRID (AP) — A bus carrying university exchange students back from Spain's largest fireworks festival crashed Sunday on a main highway in the northeast, killing at least 13 passengers and injuring 34 others, officials said.

Late Jonas goal restores Benfica's lead in Portugal Posted: 20 Mar 2016 03:54 PM PDT LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Benfica striker Jonas scored three minutes into stoppage time to snatch a 1-0 win at Boavista and reclaim the lead of the Portuguese league from Sporting Lisbon on Sunday.

WT20: Fletcher hits 84, WIndies beats Sri Lanka by 7 wickets Posted: 20 Mar 2016 03:47 PM PDT BANGALORE, India (AP) — Andre Fletcher smashed a 64-ball 84 not out to guide West Indies to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in Group 1 of the World Twenty20 on Sunday.

Turkey will 'never surrender to terror', Erdogan says Posted: 20 Mar 2016 03:42 PM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Turkey would "never surrender to the agenda of terror", a day after a suicide bomber blew up himself and four other people in central Istanbul's most popular shopping district. Erdogan made the comments at a speech in Istanbul. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker and Daren Butler; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Tennis tourney director: Women 'ride on coattails of men' Posted: 20 Mar 2016 04:58 PM PDT INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — The tournament director of the BNP Paribas Open criticized the WTA Tour on Sunday, saying women's pro tennis players "ride on the coattails of the men" while describing them as "physically attractive and competitively attractive."

Barca draws 2-2 at Villarreal, extends Liga lead to 9 points Posted: 20 Mar 2016 03:19 PM PDT BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona drew 2-2 at Villarreal after squandering a two-goal lead on Sunday as the defending champion increased its lead in the Spanish league to nine points over Atletico Madrid.

Benin votes in second-round of presidential election Posted: 20 Mar 2016 03:15 PM PDT Voting passed off calmly Sunday in the deciding second round of Benin's presidential election, with Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou taking on businessman Patrice Talon for the tiny west African country's top job. Some 4.7 million people were eligible to cast their ballots in the vote to elect a successor to outgoing President Thomas Boni Yayi, with the first results due out in a week. "Everything went well, nothing serious to speak of," said Mathieu Boni, an election observation organiser, although he added that there had been some attempted ballot stuffing which was being investigated.

Rashford gives United 1-0 win over City in Manchester derby Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:58 PM PDT MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Marcus Rashford is proving the man for the big occasion for Manchester United.

Hernani scores twice as Olympiakos beats Asteras 2-1 Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:47 PM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Olympiakos scored after only 37 seconds as two goals by Hernani guided the champion to a 2-1 win at Asteras in the Greek league on Sunday.

Coach carrying foreign students crashes in Spain, killing 13 Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:35 PM PDT Thirteen students were killed and dozens more injured in Spain Sunday when the driver of their coach lost control and crashed into an oncoming car as they returned from a festival. The bus was carrying students aged between 20 and 32 -- many on a European exchange programme in the northeastern region of Catalonia -- from some 20 countries including Britain, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden but also Japan and Peru. All the fatalities were female, according to Jordi Jane, who heads up interior matters for Catalonia, but authorities have yet to announce their nationalities.

Top ANC officials rally behind S.Africa's embattled Zuma Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:31 PM PDT The supreme decision-making organ of South Africa's ruling African National Congress party on Sunday rallied behind beleaguered President Jacob Zuma amid allegations that a wealthy Indian family has influenced ministerial appointments. "The ANC continues to confirm its full confidence in our president," party secretary general Gwede Mantashe told journalists, adding that the issue of whether or not Zuma should stand down "never arose" at the body's three-day meeting. Issues discussed at the meeting included claims by senior party and government officials that the Gupta family was interfering with the running of the government.

Congo police fire tear gas at opposition supporters: AFP Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:24 PM PDT Paris (AFP) - Riot police in Congo on Sunday used tear gas to disperse 200 opposition supporters who were trying to get into a polling station during counting in the country's presidential election, an AFP journalist saw.

Sassou Nguesso seeks to extend 32-year rule in Congo vote Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:23 PM PDT Congo voted Sunday under a nationwide media blackout in a tense ballot expected to see President Denis Sassou Nguesso prolong his 32-year rule over the oil-rich but impoverished nation. On the eve of polling, Interior Minister Raymond Mboulou ordered a 48-hour communications blackout, instructing telecoms firms to block all telephone, Internet and SMS services for "reasons of security and national safety". "Things are going calmly," said Eric Katolo, head of an 18-person observer mission from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), ahead of the scheduled closure of polling stations at 6 pm (1700 GMT).

Belgian lawyer vows fight over Paris attacks suspect Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:07 PM PDT The lawyer for Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam launched a furious legal fight Sunday to avoid his extradition to France, after Europe's most wanted fugitive spent his first night in a Belgian jail. At the same time Belgium's foreign minister suggested that Abdeslam was also plotting "something" in Brussels, where he was caught Friday after four months on the run. Abdeslam is behind bars in a high security jail on charges of "terrorist murder" for his role in the November 13 gun and suicide attacks on the French capital, which killed 130 people.

Tunisia dissident forms own political party Posted: 20 Mar 2016 02:00 PM PDT A dissident member of the Nidaa Tounes party founded by Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on Sunday launched his own political grouping, several months after quitting the party. Mohsen Marzouk, former Nidaa Tounes general secretary, announced in front of thousands of supporters the creation of the Tounes Movement Project with policies based on those of Habib Bourguiba who led the North African country to independence. The new party also opposes the moderate Islamist Ennahda, which became the largest group in parliament after 22 lawmakers quit Nidaa Tounes in January.

Brazil poll shows strong support for president's impeachment Posted: 20 Mar 2016 01:57 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A new poll published Sunday suggested strong support for the impeachment of embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in a politically polarized country mired in an economic recession and a corruption probe that has ensnared much of the county's political brass.

Anker Joergensen, Danish former prime minister, dies at 93 Posted: 20 Mar 2016 01:56 PM PDT COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Anker Joergensen, a former prime minister loved by many Danes for his down-to-earth character but criticized for his handling of economic problems in the 1970s and '80s, has died. He was 93.

Syrian opposition rejects any election-related delay to peace talks Posted: 20 Mar 2016 01:47 PM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi GENEVA (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition said on Sunday it rejected any attempt by the government to delay the next round of peace talks until after a parliamentary election on April 13 and urged Russia to press its ally into serious talks on a political transition. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called the election last month, in a sign of confidence reflecting his growing momentum on the battlefield after five years of civil war. The two warring sides have been holding separate talks for the past week in Geneva with U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, who has said he plans to suspend them on Thursday and resume in early April.

Cuba breaks up weekly dissident march hours before Obama visit Posted: 20 Mar 2016 01:40 PM PDT By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police backed by hundreds of shouting pro-government demonstrators broke up a march by the dissident group Ladies in White on Sunday, detaining about 50 people hours before U.S. President Barack Obama was due for a historic visit. This one was much more raucous, with a larger-than-normal crowd of pro-government demonstrators. The Ladies marched toward the much larger pro-government crowd, which was shouting: "These streets belong to Fidel," referring to retired leader Fidel Castro.

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