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Reuters – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s plan to broadcast the trial over California’s ban on gay marriage by posting video on YouTube.

Reuters – Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson temporarily stood down on Monday after facing calls to resign over disclosures about his family’s finances that threaten the province’s power-sharing system.

Reuters – Plunging overnight temperatures froze fruit in Florida’s citrus growing regions overnight, inflicting varying damage to the orange crop, producers said on Monday, although the losses did not appear catastrophic.

Reuters – Six members of the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan were killed on Monday in two battles with insurgents and a roadside bomb attack, making it one of the bloodiest days for foreign troops in months.

Reuters – The Kansas trial of an anti-abortion activist accused of gunning down one of the few late-term abortion providers in the United States opens on Monday in a case that has galvanized people on both sides of the contentious debate over abortion.

Reuters – Danish prosecutors have added a terrorism charge to two charges of attempted murder against a Somali man who broke into the home of a cartoonist whose 2005 drawing of the Prophet Mohammad sparked global Muslim outrage.

Reuters – A Chinese investigation into a detained Australian Rio Tinto Ltd executive and three colleagues has been sent to prosecutors, Australia’s foreign office and the mining company said on Monday.

AFP – Germany Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on a surprise visit to Sanaa on Monday that Yemeni authorities have assured him they know the whereabouts of five Germans and a Briton held hostage since June.

AFP – A Georgian court on Monday sentenced to jail terms of up to 30 years three ringleaders of a mutiny last year aimed at overthrowing the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Reuters – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak urged the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers on Monday to rein in militant groups behind a surge in attacks on Israel, coupling his appeal with a veiled threat of Israeli action.