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Michelle Obama, the first lady, plans to visit China on a solo trip March 19-26 that includes meetings with China’s first lady and high school and university students.

John Short, 75, an Australian missionary detained last month for spreading Christianity in North Korea, was deported, with the Asian country saying he apologized for his anti-state religious acts and requested forgiveness.

Prince William and wife Kate, accompanied by 7-month-old son Prince George, plan to go jet-boating and sailing during a three-week trip in Australia and New Zealand next month.

Garry Kasparov, 50, the former chess world champion turned Russian opposition activist, has become a citizen of Croatia.

Prince Harry, former Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu and British Prime Minister David Cameron joined nearly 2,000 people in a memorial service for the late Nelson Mandela at Westminster Abbey in London.

Jay Nixon, the Democratic governor of Missouri, supported the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, joining other Midwestern governors who are urging President Barack Obama to approve its construction.

Raulie Casteel, 44, who had kept a swath of southeastern Michigan on edge for weeks by shooting at two-dozen vehicles along a busy highway corridor, was sentenced to 18 to 40 years in prison on a terrorism conviction.

Kerry Kennedy, the exwife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, said on NBC’s Today that she won her drugged-driving case because she was innocent, had competent counsel and was willing to go to trial.

Stevie Marie Anne Vigil, 23, a woman who pleaded guilty to buying the handgun that white supremacist Evan Ebel used to kill Tom Clements, Colorado’s prison-system chief, last March, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and three years’ supervision.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/04/2014

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