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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said it was proceeding with a $1.16 billion contract with Northrop Grumman Corp for an unmanned patrol plane after government auditors denied a protest filed by losing bidder Lockheed Martin Corp.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Alexandre "Barack Obama" Jacinto has a dream -- to be the first black president of Brazil.

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's prime minister vowed on Monday to lead a peaceful struggle to restore the country's deposed president and France said it was suspending aid to the West Africa country.

PARIS (Reuters) - France will suspend development aid to Mauritania and is ready to consider further sanctions with its European Union partners, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said in a statement on Monday.

SANAA (Reuters) - Five suspected members of al Qaeda were killed and two arrested in a clash in Yemen after police stormed a hideout in a southern town on Monday, provincial officials said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday became the first Arab leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, a landmark step towards reducing Baghdad's isolation among its Sunni Arab neighbors.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said it would shut its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to a rocket attack that further strained a ceasefire between the Jewish state and Gaza militants.

ERIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate John McCain, flashing his foreign policy credentials while rival Barack Obama is on vacation, warned Russia on Monday of severe, long-term consequences from its conflict with Georgia.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Washington's negotiator John Rood is expected to visit Warsaw later this week in a bid to break an impasse in Polish-U.S. talks over hosting a U.S. missile shield, a U.S. official said on Monday.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's justice minister removed chief anti-corruption prosecutor Daniel Morar from office on Monday, a dismissal observers said could weaken the country's efforts to fight graft among top politicians.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co is "strongly considering" not bidding on the upcoming competition for a $35 billion U.S. Air Force refueling tanker contract, Aviation Week, the aerospace industry magazine, reported on Monday, without identifying its sources.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Confirmed in office in a landslide recall election vote, Bolivian President Evo Morales now plans to push through major constitutional reforms early next year that will further antagonize his rightist opponents.

PARIS (Reuters) - French anti-immigrant party the National Front is selling its historic headquarters to a Chinese university to raise much-needed cash, the veteran far-right party's leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was quoted as saying on Monday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A Kashmiri separatist leader was among two people killed on Monday as police fired to stop traders from crossing into Pakistan to protest what they said was an economic blockade by Hindus, police said.

HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro came into office with a flurry of economic reforms but many Cubans say their value has been more symbolic than real so far.

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine attack aircraft and artillery bombed Muslim rebel positions for a second day on Monday, raising fears of a humanitarian disaster in the south with nearly 130,000 refugees forced to flee.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticized the United States on Monday, saying it had displayed a cynical Cold War mentality by supporting Georgia in the conflict over South Ossetia.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama sees an overhaul of Wall Street regulations as crucial to restoring trust in U.S. markets and could move early on it if he wins the White House, according to a senior adviser.

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 15 more people were killed overnight in heavy monsoon rains which have wrecked homes and destroyed farmland in southern India, taking the death toll over the past two days to 61, officials said on Monday.

TEHRAN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran's chief atomic negotiator and the man representing six world powers discussed Tehran's nuclear program in telephone talks on Monday but an EU official said there was no change in the dispute.