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Millions of current account customers are being advised to consider their options, following an increase in fees, and changes in interest rates.
BBC News – Business

An aid convoy is about to enter the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya with enough food to last 40,000 people for a month, the UN says.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexico formally starts the process of extradition to the US of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who was recaptured last week.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The men behind New Year’s Eve assaults on women in Cologne were “almost exclusively” of North African and Arab origin, an official report says.
BBC News – Europe

Music legend David Bowie has died aged 69 after suffering from cancer, his family says.
BBC News – UK

The Obama administration and a US presidential hopeful criticise Sean Penn’s interview with Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
BBC News – US & Canada

Teaching resumes at Kenya’s Garissa university, where 148 students were killed in an attack by al-Shabab militants last April but not many students turn up.
BBC News – Africa

PORTLAND – After fighting hard all game, the Thunder had built an eight point lead with 3:19 remaining, and seemed to be
Oklahoma City Thunder

A’s general manager Billy Beane said he has no intentions of trading Sonny Gray, despite heavy interest in the starting pitcher from “some pretty aggressive suitors.”
OAK Homepage News

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan.
Oklahoma City Thunder

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OAK Homepage News

The City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, is “not going soft on the banks”, its interim chief executive Tracey McDermott says.
BBC News – Business

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

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

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

Proposals to improve more than 100 of England’s worst housing estates are to be outlined by the prime minister.
BBC News – UK

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

Gunmen kill two Egyptian policemen in the city of Giza in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State, officials say.
BBC News – Africa

LOS ANGELES – At shootaround on
Oklahoma City Thunder

A multi-part Around the Horn series, which features a position-by-position look at Oakland’s projected starters and backup options heading into the season, turns its focus to shortstop after covering second base […]