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Secretary of State John Kerry says a US team is set to start work in Nigeria to help find some 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram militants.
BBC News – Africa

Barclays is expected to announce as many as 15,000 job cuts in its strategy announcement due on Thursday, according to BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed.
BBC News – Business

Syrian rebels leave the last opposition-held enclaves in Homs, ending three years of resistance in the “capital of the revolution”.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombia says it has raided an office that illegally intercepted rebel and government communications to try to undermine ongoing peace talks in Cuba.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

In an apparent policy shift, Russia’s president describes Ukraine’s election on 25 May as a step “in the right direction”.
BBC News – Europe

The UK is to send a small team of experts to Nigeria to help efforts to find 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.
BBC News – UK

Hollywood stars are staying away from a famous hotel after the owner, Brunei’s government, introduced a harsh Islamic penal code.
BBC News – US & Canada

Girls’ education campaigner Malala Yousafzai says the world must not stay silent over the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria.
BBC News – Africa

The former chief executive of AstraZeneca attacks Pfizer’s attempt to take over his old company, saying it will suck the lifeblood out of the firm.
BBC News – Business

Egyptian presidential favourite Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood group “will not exist”, if he wins.
BBC News – Middle East

Political strategist Juan Jose Rendon quits the Colombian president’s re-election campaign amid allegations that he took money from drug dealers.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rules out holding a new round of talks in Geneva in a bid to defuse the Ukraine crisis.
BBC News – Europe

Ex-BBC presenter Stuart Hall pleads guilty to indecently assaulting a girl under 16, but denies 20 further charges.
BBC News – UK

Climate change is having significant financial, ecological and human health impacts across the US, according to a new report.
BBC News – US & Canada

Oscar Pistorius’ closest neighbours say they heard a man crying loudly on the night he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, as his murder trial continues.
BBC News – Africa

Portugal’s prime minister says the country will exit its three-year bailout this month without needing an emergency line of credit.
BBC News – Business

Yemeni security forces kill 37 suspected al-Qaeda militants in an offensive in the country’s south, the defence ministry says.
BBC News – Middle East

Opposition leader Juan Carlos Varela wins the presidential election in Panama with almost 40% of the votes.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukrainian police free pro-Russian activists detained after Friday’s deadly unrest in Odessa as a large crowd attacks the city’s police HQ.
BBC News – Europe

Former British number one tennis player Elena Baltacha dies of liver cancer at the age of 30.
BBC News – UK