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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.

AFP – German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle paid a surprise visit to Sanaa on Monday as pressure mounted on Yemen to rein in Al-Qaeda militants believed behind a botched attempt to bomb a US airliner.

AFP – Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Monday started a surprise visit to Sanaa, where five Germans have been held hostage since June, an AFP correspondent said.

AFP – The north African branch of Al-Qaeda threatened to execute a French hostage unless four of its militants are freed from jail in Mali in 20 days, two US monitoring groups said on Monday.

Reuters – California’s ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation.

Reuters – Chinese authorities are expected to say on Monday whether four Rio Tinto Ltd employees detained for six months over commercial bribery allegations will have their cases referred to prosecutors, Australia’s foreign ministry said.

Reuters – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans on Sunday to erect a barrier along part of Israel’s border with Egypt and install advanced surveillance equipment to keep out illegal migrants and militants.

AFP – The Arctic freeze gripping Europe left hundreds of people stuck in vehicles in deep snow or stranded at airports with scores of flights cancelled and power cuts to thousands of homes on Sunday.

Reuters – A journalist for Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper has been killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

Reuters – Iran has freed a Syrian journalist working for Dubai television who was detained in Tehran two weeks ago, his employer Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) said on Sunday.

Reuters – Three Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a “powerful response” to any attacks from the territory.

Reuters – A collision between a bus and a truck in Algeria Sunday killed 15 people and injured another 15, state radio reported.

Reuters – An Israeli air strike in the central Gaza Strip killed three Palestinian militants on Sunday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a “powerful” response to attacks from the territory.

Reuters – A member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family was found innocent on Sunday of the torture and rape of an Afghan in a case that embarrassed the Gulf Arab emirate and raised questions over human rights.

Reuters – Togo’s national team will return home and not compete in Africa’s biggest soccer tournament, captain Emmanuel Adebayor said on Sunday, after gunmen killed a squad coach and press officer in an ambush.

Reuters – More than 145 people detained after Iran’s disputed June election were kept for several days in a room of 70 square meters at a Tehran jail, including three who died, a parliamentary report was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Reuters – Would-be arsonists in mostly Muslim Malaysia struck at a convent school and a sixth church on Sunday while church and government leaders called for calm in a row over Christians’ use of the word “Allah” to refer to God.

Reuters – Togo’s national soccer squad will return to Togo and not compete in Africa’s biggest soccer tournament, Emmanuel Adebayor, the team’s captain, told French radio RMC on Sunday.

Reuters – Africa’s biggest soccer tournament starts in Angola on Sunday, overshadowed by an ambush by separatist rebels on the Togo team bus that killed three people and wounded seven.

Reuters – A former high school classmate of a man accused of plotting an al Qaeda-inspired bomb attack in New York pleaded not guilty on Saturday to charges of murder conspiracy and receiving training by a terrorist organization.

Reuters – The suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan had made a video calling on militants to avenge the death of the Pakistani Taliban leader by carrying out attacks in and outside the United States, al Jazeera said.