ARGENTINA-PROSECUTOR KILLED

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - President Cristina Fernandez makes an about-face, saying she now is "convinced" prosecutor Alberto Nisman's death was not a suicide just days after she suggested the man who accused her of protecting Iranians charged in Argentina's worst terrorist attack had killed himself. 

OBAMA-ABDULLAH

WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden will lead a U.S. delegation to Saudi Arabia in the coming days to pay respects to the family of deceased King Abdullah, the White House announces. 

NYC JAIL DEATH

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors should launch a civil rights probe into the 2013 death of a mentally ill New York City jail inmate who was locked in his cell for six days without care or medication, a state oversight panel concludes in a review that called the treatment "so incompetent and inadequate as to shock the conscience." 

UUNITED STATES-CUBA

HAVANA - Still at odds over human rights, the United States and Cuba closed two days of historic talks in Havana with some progress toward restoring diplomatic ties after a half-century of estrangement. 

BRAZIL-AGRICULTURE MINISTER

BRASILIA, Brazil - New Agriculture Minister Katia Abreu, nicknamed the "chainsaw queen" by Brazilian environmentalists for what they call her promotion of deforestation, strongly rejects the criticism, calling it sexist since she's the first woman to hold her post.