• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in New Jersey say they seized 15,000 pairs of fake Nike shoes on Monday at Port Elizabeth as part of a nationwide sweep of counterfeit products.

• The Oklahoma House voted overwhelmingly Monday to override vetoes of two restrictive abortion measures Gov. Brad Henry has called unconstitutional intrusions into citizens’ private lives and decisions. The Senate is expected to follow suit as early as Tuesday, after which the bills would become law.

• Israel’s prime minister has effectively frozen new Jewish construction in east Jerusalem, municipal officials said Monday, reflecting the need to mend a serious rift with the U.S. and get Mideast peace talks back on track.

• The British ambassador in Yemen narrowly escaped a suicide attack Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near the diplomat’s armored car in a poor neighborhood of the capital San’a, officials said.

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