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UK employment tribunal rules that Uber drivers are workers rather than self-employed contractors.
BBC News – UK

Hillary Clinton is “confident” a new FBI email probe will not change its finding she should not be prosecuted.
BBC News – US & Canada

The UN says it has negotiated the release of 876 children held as suspects by the Nigerian army.
BBC News – Africa

Max Schrock was in the middle of a lot of the action as his Mesa Solar Sox defeated the Glendale Desert Dogs, 10-7, on Thursday afternoon at Camelback Ranch.
OAK Homepage News

Russell Westbrook has talked about it for years: getting stops on demand.
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Nissan says it will build two new models at its Sunderland plant after government “support and assurances”.
BBC News – Business

Hundreds of IS fighters have been killed in the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, US generals say.
BBC News – Middle East

A landslide hits a road north of Colombia’s second-largest city, Medellin, killing six people.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Belgium’s regions back the deadlocked EU-Canada trade deal after agreeing on additional clauses.
BBC News – Europe

The UK economy grew by a better-than-expected 0.5% in the three months following the Brexit vote.
BBC News – UK

Republican Donald Trump is criticised by the family of a dead Muslim soldier after saying as president he would have kept him alive.
BBC News – US & Canada

A Rwandan Hutu rebel commander wanted for atrocities committed on Congolese soil has been arrested in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese army says.
BBC News – Africa

Mike Zunino’s home run in the seventh broke a tie and Seattle tacked on another run in the eighth in a victory over the A’s on Thursday. Chad Pinder hit his first big league home run and the A’s got one more run […]

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The A’s, though still engaging in regular-season play, have already announced their Spring Training schedule for the 2017 season.
OAK Homepage News

Vodafone is fined £4.6m by regulator Ofcom for breaking consumer protection rules.
BBC News – Business

The UN receives reports of atrocities being committed by IS militants as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul.
BBC News – Middle East

Guards watch him 24/7 and it’s driving the jailed drug lord insane, his partner says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Overnight fires raze sections of the “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais, amid a clearance operation.
BBC News – Europe

Training mums and dads as “super parents” can dramatically improve a child’s autism, a study shows.
BBC News – UK