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President Francois Hollande of France says he has ordered preparations to start for air strikes on Islamic State militants in Syria.
BBC News – Middle East

An independent investigation into the disappearance of 43 Mexican students last year rejects the government’s account of events.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Hundreds of migrants break through police lines in Hungary and head north along a motorway, as EU politicians continue to wrangle over the influx of asylum seekers.
BBC News – Europe

Two British Islamic State jihadists were killed by an RAF drone strike in Syria, the PM says – the first targeted UK drone attack on its own nationals.
BBC News – UK

An Italian court issues harsh criticisms of “glaring errors” in the investigation into the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
BBC News – US & Canada

Chad’s ex-leader Hissene Habre is carried into court and held down by masked security officers at the resumption of his war crimes trial.
BBC News – Africa

Trains return to the Scottish Borders with the opening of the longest new domestic railway built in Britain for over a century.
BBC News – Business

US Secretary of State John Kerry voices concern to Moscow amid reports of a Russian military build-up in Syria in support of President Assad’s forces.
BBC News – Middle East

Guatemalans vote for a new president amid a corruption scandal that forced the arrest of the previous incumbent.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A convoy of private cars crosses from Austria to Hungary to collect stranded migrants, as thousands continue to make their way to western Europe.
BBC News – Europe

Money from the UK’s international aid budget is to be used to help councils to house refugees from Syria, Chancellor George Osborne says.
BBC News – UK

Hundreds gather in support of a county clerk in the state of Kentucky jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples.
BBC News – US & Canada

A Sierra Leone village of nearly 1,000 people is put under quarantine after a dead woman’s body tested positive for Ebola.
BBC News – Africa

Three men who tricked their victim into handing over her £12,000 savings on the phone have been caught on tape, thanks to her son’s premonition.
BBC News – Business

Islamic State (IS) militants continue their destruction of the ancient Syrian site of Palmyra by blowing up three funerary towers.
BBC News – Middle East

Jailed Guatemala’s ex-president Otto Perez Molina rejects corruption allegations during court hearing – and asks to be placed under house arrest
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Thousands of exhausted migrants cross into Austria after Hungary’s surprise move to provide buses to take them to the border.
BBC News – Europe

More than 40 UK councils say they are ready to offer sanctuary to refugees fleeing fighting in Syria, Labour’s Yvette Cooper says.
BBC News – UK

Authorities in a county of the US state of Kentucky issue marriage licences to gay couples after a county clerk was jailed for refusing to do so.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari declares he has $ 150,000 (£100,000) in his personal account – far less than his vice-president.
BBC News – Africa