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Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case seeking recognition by Ohio of same-sex marriages legally performed elsewhere, says he has gotten ordained in anticipation of the court’s ruling, in order to help out in a potential surge of gay couples wanting to wed.

Pope Francis, after a prayerful visit to the Shroud of Turin, a burial cloth said to have covered the body of Jesus, in Turin, Italy, denounced the “great powers” for failing to act on reports that Jews, Christians and others groups were being killed in camps during World War II and later in Stalinist Russia.

Nouhad Mashnouk, Lebanon’s interior minister, told reporters in Beirut that the prison guards seen in online video clips beating nearly naked Islamist detainees have been arrested and referred to military prosecutors.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, whose Justice and Development Party lost its parliamentary majority in recent elections, called for the creation of a coalition government as soon as possible to “avoid testing the limits of the economy’s patience.”

Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s defense minister, will travel to Bamako, Mali, to confirm the peace accord between Tuareg rebels and the government and to finalize how French troops can help the country restructure its army.

Raymond William Henry, 57, a high school coach in Mission Viejo, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, based on a tip from an informant at a rental car company who found an iPad storing photos of naked girls ages 11 to 13 in a vehicle the coach had returned, authorities say.

Eric Mogensen and his daughter Meghan Mogensen, owners of Gulf Breeze Zoo in Florida, were charged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on violations of the Animal Welfare Act, including improper veterinary care and euthanizing animals by shooting or drowning them.

Jeremy Johnson, a Utah businessman, was sued by the Federal Election Commission, which says he illegally gave $170,000 to friends, family and employees in 2009 and 2010 to fund campaigns of U.S. Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada and Mike Lee of Utah as well as that of a former Utah attorney general.

John Rich, half of country music duo Big & Rich, will expand his Redneck Riviera brand in Nashville, Tenn., with a planned restaurant he called the “rowdy version of Margaritaville.”

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