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Bloomberg’s Ads on Guns Put Senators on the Spot

By MICHAEL BARBARO

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spent $12 million on a national television campaign that names senators he believes might be persuaded to support federal gun regulations.

U.S. and Afghanistan Reach Deal on Transfer of Prison

By MARK MAZZETTI

The agreement to transfer control of Bagram Prison to the Afghan government ends a particularly acrimonious chapter of America’s relationship with President Hamid Karzai.

Cyprus Makes Plan to Seize Portion of High-Level Deposits

By LIZ ALDERMAN and JAMES KANTER

Facing a Monday deadline to avoid a banking collapse, Cyprus and its negotiators devised a plan Saturday to take a percentage of savers’ deposits above 100,000 euros to raise money for a bailout.

News Analysis

Obama Shows Talent for Arm-Twisting and Raising Hopes

By MARK LANDLER

After helping heal a rift between Israel and Turkey, analysts wonder whether President Obama will bring the same doggedness to pursuing peace in Israel.

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Joe Weider at his home in Los Angeles in 2006.

Robert Galbraith/Reuters

Joe Weider, Bodybuilding Legend, Dies

By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

Mr. Weider helped popularize the sport worldwide and cultivated one of its biggest stars — a charismatic young weightlifter named Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Syrian Doctors in Civil War’s Cross Hairs

Dr. Housam Moustafa, a surgeon in training, treated a Syrian rebel at a clinic in Reyhanli, Turkey.

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and HALA DROUBI

More than 100 physicians, whom the government suspects of treating rebels, have been killed in the last two years, according to doctors and opposition groups.

Russian Oligarch and Sharp Critic of Putin Dies

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

Boris A. Berezovsky, a close ally of Boris N. Yeltsin, exiled himself to Britain after a falling out with the Kremlin.

Automatic Cuts Are Felt at Nation’s Air Shows

The Air Force Thunderbirds on Friday in Titusville, Fla. The team’s performance at the air show there will probably be its last for a while.

By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Attractions like the the Air Force’s Thunderbirds draw crowds to air shows around the nation, but they will soon be grounded by budget cuts.

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Updates and Analysis: Round of 32, Day 1

Peyton Siva after Louisville defeated Colorado State.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Louisville and Oregon won easily but one of the tournament’s favorite bracket busters, Harvard, has fallen.

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A Forger’s Impressions of Impressionism

By JOHN ANDERSON

Michel Bouquet plays the Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in “Renoir.” The film features paintings by the forger Guy Ribes.

In Gilles Bourdos’s “Renoir,” about the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son Jean, paintings by the forger Guy Ribes play a significant role.