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Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebel movement announces it is taking over the government and dissolving parliament.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican police investigate after at least 61 bodies are found piled up in an abandoned crematorium in the resort of Acapulco.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The French and German leaders are due to meet Russia’s President Putin to try to halt an escalating offensive by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.
BBC News – Europe

UK agency GCHQ was not open enough on how it shared intelligence gathered by US mass internet surveillance, a tribunal rules.
BBC News – UK

Canada’s Supreme Court rules that doctors may help patients who have severe and incurable medical conditions to die, overturning a 1993 ban.
BBC News – US & Canada

The Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram attacks a town in Niger for the first time, a day after launching a raid into Cameroon.
BBC News – Africa

Students were lined up in the hallways of Washington Irving Elementary School in Edmond on Thursday afternoon, filing into classrooms as
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UK phone giant BT agrees to buy the British mobile operator EE for £12.5bn, it says.
BBC News – Business

Jordan’s King Abdullah II vows to fight back against Islamic State, a day after an IS video shows a Jordanian pilot being burnt alive.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro calls for a relationship with the US based on diplomacy, after the US imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Nato is due to reveal details of a plan to strengthen its military presence in Eastern Europe amid intensified fighting in Ukraine.
BBC News – Europe

Tesco is to face another investigation into its relations with suppliers, amid concerns that it breached the Groceries Supply Code of Practice.
BBC News – UK

The man accused of operating Silk Road, a deep web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold, has been found guilty by a jury in New York.
BBC News – US & Canada

Boko Haram militants have reportedly killed at least 70 people in an attack on a Cameroonian town near the Nigerian border.
BBC News – Africa

NEW ORLEANS – Momentum is hard to hold onto in the NBA as the ebbs and flows of the season, the schedule, injuries and l
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On Monday night, the Thunder took a step forward.
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Greece’s leaders receive a guarded welcome to their proposals for a debt deal, ahead of crunch talks with EU creditors and leaders.
BBC News – Business

Jordan confirms the death of pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh after a video published online by Islamic State (IS) claims to show him being burned alive.
BBC News – Middle East

Pope Francis approves martyrdom status for murdered Salvadorean Archbishop Oscar Romero, paving the way for beatification.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Up to 16 civilians are killed in the space of 24 hours in eastern Ukraine, as the UN warns that the renewed fighting is “catastrophic” for civilians.
BBC News – Europe