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Dafne McPherson was sentenced to 16 years in prison after miscarrying in a department store bathroom. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2B5CPO4

Self-declared leader Juan Guaidó also appeals to the powerful army, after receiving foreign backing. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2Ugce87

A helicopter and a light aircraft collided in the Italian Alps, killing five people and injuring two. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2AZx1pd

State-owned media say cleaners are accused of stealing much more than the $150,000 initially reported. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2CJq0ZN

Thousands skip school in Berlin and some other European cities to urge action on global warming. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2sMyM4H

BBC Correspondent Colin Campbell visits four European ports migrants are using to get to the UK. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2UnZEEb

China's economic growth is slowing down. But what's really going on? from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2DxtjVy

Ghana's 'Kumawood' film studios are reviving the country's creative industry. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2UcRMoA

As Parkland anniversary looms, we asked Texas students how much shootings are on their mind. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2RLcmzQ

Thousands of people are being evacuated as flash floods uproot homes after heavy rains in Sulawesi. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2B2Q95I

The school's principal decided to ditch the traditional workout for something a little more modern. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2RiCk8V

Kalamsat-V2 weighs just 1.26kg (2.6lb) and was made by students belonging to a space education firm. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2Wa77rU

The economic consequences of the shutdown were starting to show. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2RguVXk

Ging Ginanjar played a key role in bringing about press freedom in the world's largest Muslim nation. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2S9Ek7J

Bungaree was the only Australian on the first ship to circumnavigate the continent, but his story is often ignored. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2G01uqC

Vienna showcases the long-neglected works of its pre-war female artists. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2AYKON1

A wave of unprecedented violence, a Mexican city badly damaged by warring gangs, and the football fans voicing a community's pain. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2HE2QtQ

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos released proposed non-regulatory guidance to support school districts' compliance with the requirement that federal funds supplement, and do not supplant, state and local funds, under section 1118 of Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The guidance explains how ESSA changed the longstanding requirement in order to reduce administrative burden, simplify the compliance demonstration and promote effective spending. from ED News http://bit.ly/2B2iycs

Nigeria's main opposition party has suspended its presidential election campaign for 72 hours in protest at the suspension of the country's most senior judge by President Muhammadu Buhari, it said on Saturday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Rdn5xX

Pope Francis said on Friday it was "senseless and irresponsible" to stigmatize migrants and see all of them as threats to society, weighing in again on one of the most divisive issues in the United States. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2TaQlHg

The United States on Friday signaled it was ready to step up economic measures to try to drive Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power as some U.S. diplomats left the embassy in Caracas and Russia vowed to back its socialist South American ally. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2B3qD0i

Brazilian rescuers were searching for some 200 missing people after a tailings dam burst on Friday at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, the second major dam disaster involving the company in just over three years. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Tencef

A predominantly Muslim area of the southern Philippines has returned a resounding "Yes" in this week's referendum on greater autonomy, boosting hopes for peace in one of Asia's most conflict-torn regions. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2FZ4eEI

Tens of thousands of people rallied across Australia on Saturday calling for the abolition of the Jan. 26 national holiday in protests showing a deep division over a festivity intended to celebrate the birth of modern Australia. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Uk9Ygq

Cuba called on the Colombian government and ELN rebels on Friday to follow the protocol of the peace talks it had been hosting and implement measures needed, including security guarantees, to allow 10 ELN leaders in Havana to return to Colombia. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2G1umi9

The United States is pushing for a United Nations Security Council statement expressing full support for Venezuela's National Assembly as the country's "only democratically elected institution," but Russia is expected to block the move, diplomats said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2RQCitV

The United States was expected to send a first group of 20 Central American asylum seekers back to Mexico through the border city of Tijuana on Friday as part of President Donald Trump's hardening of longstanding U.S. immigration policy. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Tg7oYm

Spanish rescuers on Saturday found the dead body of a two-year-old boy who had fallen into a deep narrow well in southern Spain on Jan. 13, a Spanish official said. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2HKsJrZ

Setting deadlines for elections in Libya is counterproductive as the political players need to agree first on a political solution to end the country's conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2FQpzRD

France is ready to impose further sanctions on Iran if no progress is made in talks over its ballistic missile program, the French foreign minister said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2B28NuP

Venezuela's most important foreign asset, its $10 billion U.S. refining arm Citgo Petroleum, is hunkering down to arm itself with a legal strategy to block efforts for its board to be removed and its revenues diverted to an opposition government, sources close to the talks said. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2CNWqSY