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A cut in interest rates in China and comments from Europe’s Central Bank chief spur US markets on to fresh highs
BBC News – Business

Iran’s foreign minister says he has heard “no new ideas” as talks with world powers on Tehran’s nuclear programme stretch into the evening.
BBC News – Middle East

Two retired Chilean colonels – Ramon Caceres and Edgar Ceballos – are jailed for torturing the father of President Michelle Bachelet in 1973.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A judge in the Netherlands agrees to extend the period police can hold a Dutch teenager who travelled to Syria to marry an Islamist fighter.
BBC News – Europe

Two men die and at least six other people are injured as part of a balcony collapses in west London.
BBC News – UK

US President Barack Obama vows to press for further immigration reform, as Republicans condemn his use of executive powers on the issue.
BBC News – US & Canada

Eleven people have been killed in a stampede after a religious service in a stadium in Zimbabwe, police say.
BBC News – Africa

Thunder teammates always hold one another accountable, in a positive,
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Apple plans to push the Beats streaming music service to every iPhone in the new year, according to a report in the Financial Times newspaper.
BBC News – Business

A former member of Qatar’s World Cup bid team, Phaedra Al-Majid, says she has experienced “fear and threats” since making corruption allegations against Fifa.
BBC News – Middle East

Mass protests are expected across Mexico for 43 missing students, whom the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice has rejected the UK’s challenge to Europe’s cap on bankers’ bonuses.
BBC News – Europe

Three men arrested earlier this month are set to appear in court charged with preparing acts of terrorism.
BBC News – UK

Another metre of snow is expected in parts of north-eastern US, after a massive snowstorm killed at least seven people in New York state on Wednesday.
BBC News – US & Canada

A renewed conscription drive in Eritrea has led to a sharp increase in the number of youths fleeing to Ethiopia, the UN refugee agency tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa

DENVER – On the second night of a back-to-back at high elevation, the Thunder was staring down a 16-point deficit
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SALT LAKE CITY – The Thunder made the first punch, but when the Utah Jazz made a counter-punch, it was too much to
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi is fined $ 315m for watering down a report about its transactions with sanctioned countries.
BBC News – Business

PM Benjamin Netanyahu vows to win a “battle for Jerusalem” as the Israeli death toll in a Palestinian attack on a synagogue rises to five.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombia’s Farc rebels issue a statement defending the kidnap of an army general and his two companions during peace negotiations.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean