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  The Iraqi military says it now has control of a complex of government buildings that's beenthe center of battle for the city of Ramadi. IS fighters appeared to have withdrawn from thecompound although troops are still confronting pockets of resistance in the surroundingneighborhood. The recapture of Ramadi will constitute a significant victory for the Iraqigovernment. As Toma Fussy repots from Baghdad. The authorities will hail this week'soffensive as a success against the jihadi group in the country. But it took months to mountthis ground campaign coordinated with coalition air strikes. The prime minister Haider al-Abadisaid the army would then move to retaken the northern city of Mosul and that would be thebiggest prize. But it is the largest population center under the control of IS in Iraq and thebattle there will be much tougher.

  The director of Israel's missile defense programs has been sacked for what the governmenthas described as a grave breach of security. The Israeli media said Yair Ramati storedclassified documents on his personal computer.

  Reports from Yemen say that Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard Nasser al-Bahri has diedafter a long illness. Youssef Taha has the story. Medical sources in Yemen told the BBC that al-Bahri who was also known as Abu Jandal, died on Saturday at a hospital in Mukalla in thesouthern province of Hadhramaut. He was the bodyguard and driver of Osama bin Laden, thelate Al-Qaeda leaders when he operated from Afghanistan. He returned to Yemen at the end of2008 following his release from the US detention center in Guantanamo. Al-Bahri, who was aYemeni national, was reputed to have been involved in military attacks during the 1990s inBosnia, Somalia and Afghanistan.

  A Syrian group that reports on human rights abuses by IS militants in the city of Raqqa saysanother of its members has been killed. Naji Jerf made documentary film for the organizationknown as 'Raqqa is being slaughtered silently'. He was shot dead while in Turkey.

  At least 11 people have died in the latest tornadoes to hit the US state of Texas. Witnesses sayit took the tornadoes just seconds to cause devastation including flattening houses, topplingtrees and causing massive power cuts. A young child was among those killed. Large parts ofthe Dallas region were plunged into darkness. Douglas Athas is the mayor of Garlands nearDallas. I have seen the devastation. It is quite extensive. There are homes completely leveled.Many more with roofs damaged, cars overturned, fences down. Government apartmentcomplex is especially hard hit. It's just stakes and rubbles, large metal, beams twisted andthrown. I've seen them on both sides of the free way. So that was at least 300 and some yardsareas that have been thrown. World news from the BBC.

  Several hundred people have marched on the French island of Corsica, ignoring a ban ondemonstrations introduced after two days of violent anti-Abrab protests. The unrest followed aclash on Thursday in which two firefighters and a police officer were injured in a largely Arabhousing estate in the capital Ajaccio.

  The pro-indepence movement in the Spanish region of Catalonia is in disarray after it failed tochoose a leader. Delegates from the leftist in the alliance, the CUP, split over whether tosupport a pro-indepence administration led by the current regional president Artur Mas. Theleader of the CUP, Antonio Banos, said the stalemate was a clear sign that the debate had tocontinue. But the outcome is what it is. And I think it is not a problem but a challenge. It'sthe challenge of debate, the challenge to reach an agreement.

  A former player in El Salvador's national football team has been shot dead. The authorities saythat Alfredo Pacheco was killed while chatting with friends at a petrol station in the city of SantaAna. Pacheco was banned from football in 2013 for match-fixing.

  The Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler has died. He was 93. Wexler won anAcademy award for his innovative black-and-white camera work on the 1966 film 'Who IsAfraid of Virginia Woolf' and a second a decade later for 'Bound for Glory' based on theAmerican musician Woody Guthrie. In this interview, Wexler talked about the importance oflighting. For me, it came from not having a lot of equipment, not having a lot of what you called'lighting equipment'. So even before digital which is much more reflexible. You're veryconscious what light happens in the room. And that's the latest BBC world news.

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