Regulator ‘not going soft’ on banks
The City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, is “not going soft on the banks”, its interim chief executive Tracey McDermott says. BBC News – Business
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Aid for starving Syrian village delayed
Aid for the besieged Syrian village of Madaya, a rebel-held village near the Lebanese border, has been delayed until Monday by last-minute hitches. BBC News – Middle East
Argentina police in manhunt confusion
Officials in Argentina say a huge manhunt has netted only one of three fugitive murderers, hours after claiming that all had been caught. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
Clashes at Cologne anti-migrant demo
German police use water cannon against anti-migrant protesters, amid controversy about a wave of assaults on women – some of them by migrants. BBC News – Europe
PM vows housing estate ‘turnaround’
Proposals to improve more than 100 of England’s worst housing estates are to be outlined by the prime minister. BBC News – UK
Mexico moves to extradite ‘El Chapo’
The Mexican government says it will begin the process of extraditing recaptured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the US. BBC News – US & Canada