Craig Taylor

The Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, orders the takeover of a private supermarket chain by the state food agency.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appeals to the West for further backing against pro-Russian rebels, including the supply of weapons.
BBC News – Europe

Princes Charles says the extent to which young people are becoming radicalised in the UK is “alarming”, describing the issue as one of the “greatest worries”.
BBC News – UK

Friday night was tough. Saturday morning provided a chance for perspective and Sunday afternoon an opportunity to bounce back.
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US NBC anchor Brian Williams steps down temporarily, days after apologising for wrongly saying he came under fire in Iraq in 2003.
BBC News – US & Canada

The electoral commission in Nigeria postpones the 14 February presidential election by six weeks as Boko Haram militant attacks continue.
BBC News – Africa

In the Thunder’s victory Wednesday night over the New Orleans Pelicans, the word sensational might not have been strong enough to describ
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The United States added 257,000 jobs last month and the number created in November and December was revised sharply higher.
BBC News – Business

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