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Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan block a highway during a protest after the Israeli leader fired his defense minister, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 27.

Civil unrest broke out in parts of Israel on Sunday night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister for criticizing the government’s divisive judicial overhaul, prompting protesters to surge into the streets, universities to shut their doors and union leaders to hint of a looming general strike.

Is the David porn? Come see, Italians tell Florida parents

The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign.

Putin says he could put tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus by summer

President Vladimir Putin of Russia said he would be able to position nuclear weapons in Belarus by the summer, a claim that analysts said was likely bluster but which underscored the Kremlin’s determination to use its vast nuclear arsenal to pressure the West to back down from its support of Ukraine.

Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, during a joint statement after a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on March 26.

Honduras establishes ties with China after Taiwan break

Honduras established diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states, including Vatican City.

A selection of vintage clocks are displayed at the Electric Time Company, March 9, in Medfield, Mass.

Daylight savings dispute leaves Lebanon with two time zones

The Lebanese government’s last-minute decision to delay the start of daylight savings time by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan resulted in mass confusion Sunday.

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People walk in the Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 23.

Tensions on the rise at revered Kyiv monastery complex

The courtyards of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra have been busy with more than just the usual worshippers, going to and from its churches in the sprawling monastic complex that is Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site. 4:40 a.m.

Police watch protesters walking within a cordon line wearing number tags during a rally in Hong Kong, on March 26.

Hong Kongers hold first protest in years under strict rules

Dozens of people on Sunday joined Hong Kong’s first authorized demonstration against the government since the lifting of major COVID-19 restrictions under unprecedentedly strict rules, including wearing a numbered badge around their necks. 4:29 a.m.

In an undated image provided by Kevin Brown, the Stumpff lock, from which Beethoven's whole genome was sequenced, with an inscription by its former owner Patrick Stirling.

DNA from Beethoven’s hair unlocks medical and family secrets

It was March 1827, and Ludwig van Beethoven was dying. As he lay in bed, wracked with abdominal pain and jaundiced, grieving friends and acquaintances came to visit. And some asked a favor: Could they clip a lock of his hair for remembrance? 12:41 a.m.

Bona Poli, 85, askes the robot Nao to tell her a story during a focus group in Carpi, Italy, on March 6.

Who will take care of Italy’s older people? Robots, maybe.

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Masooda, 52, a women's therapist, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 26, 2022.

Devastation beyond war: Loss piles on loss for Afghan women

Some women went into hiding, fearing retribution after the Taliban seized power. Others began protesting on the street. Grandmothers in dusty villages walked out of their mud brick homes with relief, free for the first time in 40 years of the fear of stray bullets or airstrikes raining down. Some teenage girls began attending schools in secret, echoing the stories from their mothers’ childhoods that once felt like grim folklore. 12:13 a.m.

Malcom Nance, a former Navy cryptologist and MSNBC commentator who joined Ukraine’s legion of foreign fighters, in Lviv, Ukraine, April 19, 2022.

Stolen valor: The US volunteers in Ukraine who lie, waste and bicker

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War veteran Major General Emil Bocek in Prague, Feb. 11, 2022.

Emil Bocek, last Czech RAF pilot during WWII, dies at 100

Emil Bocek fled Czechoslovakia in 1939 at age 16 following the country’s occupation by Germany. He fought the Nazis in France and then moved to Britain, where he served as a technician in the air force before becoming a pilot in 1944. 4:12 p.m.

Pope Francis meets the faithful at the end of an audience with people of Rome at the Paul VI hall in the Vatican on March 25.

Pope expands sex abuse law, reaffirms adults can be victims

Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding Catholic hierarchs accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse, expanding the norms to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that vulnerable adults can also be victims of abuse when they are unable to consent. 7:27 a.m.