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“English votes for English laws” at Westminster is set to become law after the government wins a Commons vote after an ill-tempered debate.
BBC News – UK

Hillary Clinton tells a Congress committee she took responsibility after the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, when she was secretary of state.
BBC News – US & Canada

Twenty-nine people are charged with public violence in South Africa following the biggest student protests since minority rule ended in 1994.
BBC News – Africa

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SALT LAKE CITY – It was the last chance in the preseason for the Thunder to put the U.S.
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The owner of Argos and Homebase, Home Retail Group, says full-year underlying profits could be slightly below market expectations.
BBC News – Business

The US and Russia sign an agreement to minimise the risks of air incidents over Syria, officials from both countries say.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexico agrees with an international panel of experts that the investigation into last year’s disappearance of 43 students should be reopened.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has held talks with Russia’s President Putin on an unannounced visit to Moscow, his first foreign trip since civil war started in 2011.
BBC News – Europe

China’s president is expected to put the seal later on its contribution to what will be the first UK nuclear power plant to be built in a generation.
BBC News – UK

Canada’s PM-designate Justin Trudeau tells the US president he will be withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from the air strikes against Islamic State.
BBC News – US & Canada

Police fire shots and tear gas in Congo’s capital, Brazzaville, in a clamp down on protests against the president’s bid for a third term.
BBC News – Africa

A home game then a travel day with a practice beforehand then a road game the next day is the typical rhythm the Thunder will experience
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Administrators from PwC have been appointed to parts of Caparo Industries’ steel operations.
BBC News – Business

Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled a government offensive on rebel-held areas south of the city of Aleppo in the past three days, an activist says.
BBC News – Middle East

A plane crashes into a bakery in the Colombian capital, Bogota, killing four people on board and one person on the ground.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Croatia opens its border with Serbia, removing one of the bottlenecks for thousands of stranded migrants trying to make their way north.
BBC News – Europe

A man appears in court charged with poisoning and murdering four young men in east London.
BBC News – UK

Canadians are voting in a general election with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau mounting a strong challenge to Conservative PM Stephen Harper.
BBC News – US & Canada

South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is released under house arrest nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend, prison officials say.
BBC News – Africa