Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Capitol Hill later this month about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and about her email practices during her tenure as Secretary of State. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12011
Two men opened fire into a Texas crowd at a Muhammad cartoon event Sunday night and were immediately shot dead by a police officer. One security guard was wounded. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11990
The government of Nepal is asking foreign search-and-rescue teams to wrap up operations now that the chance of finding survivors buried by last month’s earthquake has largely passed. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11994
An organization of Israeli soldiers known as “Breaking the Silence” released a report detailing how Israeli soldiers killed civilians in Gaza last summer. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12009
Afghan government officials and Taliban militants are now in their second day of meetings in the gulf state of Qatar, and for once neither side denied that the sessions were taking place. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12008
A rare African plant seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes—columns of volcanic rock hundreds of meters across that extend deep into Earth, exhuming diamonds from the mantle. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11993
Ottawa is to pay an Inuit land-claim group more than $250 million to settle a long-standing lawsuit and improve training for Inuit to enter the territorial civil service. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12010
Italy rescues almost 6,800 migrants in the Mediterranean during a huge weekend operation. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11984
Protesters clash with police after footage emerged last week of an Ethiopian Israeli in an army uniform being beaten by police. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11986
Carly Fiorina, the former HP CEO, has announced her candidacy for the presidency. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11996
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