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Monkey in coat causes stir at Ikea

TORONTO - Shoppers at an Ikea store in Toronto weren’t monkeying around when they reported a primate on the loose.

Customers spotted a monkey - clad in a pint-sized shearling coat - wandering around the store’s parking lot Sunday afternoon. The baby monkey, named Darwin, made its way through rows of parked cars and ended up outside a set of store doors.

The Ikea staff lured the primate into a corner before calling police, who contacted the city’s Animal Services agency, said police Staff Sgt. Ed Dzingala.

The monkey never made it inside the store and was picked up by Animal Services officers within half an hour. The animal’s owner later contacted police and was briefly reunited with the illegal pet, Dzingala said.

Mary Lou Leiher from Toronto Animal Services said the monkey’s owners have been fined $240 for breaking the city’s prohibited-animal bylaw. She said Darwin was being fed and cared for while officials tried to find an animal sanctuary for it.

CIA drone’s data decoded, Iran says

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Monday said it has decoded all of the data from an advanced CIA spy drone captured last year.

The Guard’s aerospace chief, Gen. Ami Ali Hajizadeh, told state-run Press TV that that the RQ-170 Sentinel craft had not carried out missions over nuclear facilities before it went down in December 2011 near the eastern border with Afghanistan.

Tehran had previously said it recovered information from the top-secret stealth aircraft, but Monday’s announcement suggests technicians may have broken encryptions.

“All data from the drone have been completely decoded. We know where it traveled step by step,” Hajizadeh was quoted as saying. “After decoding, our experts discovered that this drone had not carried out even a single nuclear mission over Iran.”

Hajizadeh said Iran had captured the drone and decoded its data without any assistance, including from its allies China and Russia. Iran has said it would reverse-engineer the drone and build its own version.

Jailed McAfee longs to return to U.S.

BACALAR, Mexico - Software company founder John McAfee said Sunday he wants to return to the United States and “settle down to whatever normal life” he can.

In a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, the 67-year-old said “I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.”

Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November.

The creator of the McAfee anti-virus program again denied involvement in the killing during the Sunday address.

The British-born McAfee first said that returning to the United States “is my only hope now.” But he later added, “I would be happy to go to England. I have dual citizenship.”East Europe weather deaths up to 13

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall killed at least 13 people in eastern Europe as Croatia endured its worst winter storm since 1955 and Romanians struggled to vote in parliamentary elections.

Seven people died in the Czech Republic amid temperatures of as low as minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. Four people died in Croatia and two in Serbia as the Balkan region saw snowfall of as much as 43 inches. Heavy snow in Romania hampered voters as Prime Minister Victor Ponta’s ruling coalition won Sunday’s general election.

Dozens of trucks carrying goods to Europe were stranded on Bulgaria’s border with Serbia as snow blocked roads in the neighboring Balkan country, Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry said Monday on its website.

Above-average snowfall cut electricity supplies across Romania, leaving about 90 towns without power, the Economy Ministry said Monday.

In Slovenia, the state-owned agency that operates the country’s highways and the police blamed each other for chaos on one of the country’s highways after trucks slid and blocked roads, leaving dozens of drivers stranded without food or water.

Montenegro reported 19 car accidents with nine people hurt.

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