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Associated Press Monday, 15 February 2016, 06:47 Last update: about 11 years ago

POPE

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — Pope Francis is celebrating Mexico's Indians on Monday with a visit to heavily indigenous Chiapas state, where he will preside over a Mass in three native languages thanks to a new Vatican decree approving their use in liturgy. 

OBAMA-SOUTHEAST ASIA

WASHINGTON — A coup leader with a penchant for song. A sultan with a taste for the high life. A ruthless prime minister with 31 years on the job. A former furniture salesman. When President Barack Obama welcomes Southeast Asian leaders for a shirt-sleeves summit set to begin Monday in California, he'll have some interesting dining companions.

PRESIDENTIAL RACE

GREENVILLE, South Carolina — George W. Bush won a bruising South Carolina presidential primary on his way to the Oval Office, as his father did before him. Now it's his brother's turn, and for Jeb Bush, the most consequential foreign policy decisions of his brother's time in office are suddenly front-and-center. 

SCALIA

WASHINGTON — The body of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is taken to an El Paso airport and being flown to Virginia after it was determined he died of "natural causes" and an autopsy was not necessary.

HAITI-PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Lawmakers choose the Senate chief to lead a caretaker government that will fill the void left by the end of President Michel Martelly's term and perhaps ease lingering tensions that recently pushed deeply polarized Haiti into political crisis. 

MIT-MENTAL HEALTH

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Following several campus suicides, students at MIT are looking for their own solutions to prevent more deaths. 

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