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Police in the US arrest former Ecuadorean police commander Edgar Vaca, accused of kidnapping and torturing left-wing rebels in the 1980s.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Protesters remain camped in Kiev after rejecting the terms of a new amnesty law, which requires them to vacate government buildings.
BBC News – Europe

The home secretary seeks new powers to strip terrorist suspects of their UK citizenship as the Immigration Bill is debated by MPs.
BBC News – UK

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber is charged with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto, in his second court appearance in a week.
BBC News – US & Canada

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar tells the BBC that the treason charges laid against him and some of his allies are “baseless”.
BBC News – Africa

The UK economy grew 0.7% in the final quarter of 2013 and by 1.9% for the year, the Office for National Statistics says, led by the services sector.
BBC News – Business

Egypt’s former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi rails against the authorities at the beginning of a trial over his escape from prison in 2011.
BBC News – Middle East

The Mexican government signs an agreement with vigilante groups in Michoacan state to bring them into the official security apparatus.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych accepts the resignation of PM Mykola Azarov after the government annuls a controversial anti-protest law.
BBC News – Europe

An ex-News of the World journalist played a hacked voicemail left by actress Sienna Miller for Daniel Craig to his editor, Andy Coulson, a court hears.
BBC News – UK

US President Barack Obama will unveil a minimum-wage raise as he delivers his annual State of the Union address later.
BBC News – US & Canada

The United Nations believes at least 10,000 troops are needed in any force sent to end unrest in Central African Republic, France’s UN envoy says.
BBC News – Africa

A hardware failure was the cause of the shutdown of some Halifax, Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and TSB cash machines and debit cards on Sunday.
BBC News – Business

The Syrian peace talks in Geneva are deadlocked over the divisive issue of transferring power to a transitional government, sources say.
BBC News – Middle East

Authorities in Brazil launch an inquiry into the weekend shooting by police of a man following a protest in Sao Paulo against this year’s World Cup.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s justice minister says she will call for a state of emergency and the end of negotiations unless protesters leave her ministry.
BBC News – Europe

The Environment Agency has been criticised as areas in south-west England already hit by flooding were warned that more could be on the way.
BBC News – UK

President Obama’s NSA reforms do not go far enough, a senior Google executive tells the BBC, as Edward Snowden accuses the agency of “industrial espionage”.
BBC News – US & Canada

The Pentagon says the US has carried out a missile strike in Somalia against a suspected militant leader with ties to al-Qaeda and al-Shabab.
BBC News – Africa

Labour would restore the 50p tax rate for those earning over £150,000, if it returns to power, shadow chancellor Ed Balls says,
BBC News – Business