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US President Donald Trump urges Venezuela's military to desert President Nicolas Maduro, calling the embattled leftist leader a "Cuban puppet," in a joint appeal with Brazil. SOUNDBITE
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
The United Nations Security Council demands an immediate end to attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea. The resolution passed "demands that the Huthis immediately cease all such attacks, which impede global commerce and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security." It passed after Russia, as well as China, Mozambique and Algeria abstained. IMAGES
To mark the end of the nuclear era in Germany, Greenpeace exhibits a 4-metre-long sculpture of a T.rex, lying on the ground and surrounded by nuclear waste barrels, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. On top of the dinosaur stands the anti-nuclear sun in victory pose, as a militant figure with a shield on which is written "nuclear power, no thanks". IMAGES
The Fed predicts a 5.2 percent rate of inflation, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index, before falling rapidly to 2.6 percent next year and 2.2 percent in 2024, Chair Jerome Powell says during a press conference. SOUNDBITE
Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio signs a gas deal with Congolese oil minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua as Rome seeks to end its dependence on Russia for energy. IMAGES
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