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　　Iraqi security forces say they're consolidating their positions in the city of Ramadi after fightingtheir way into the centre to seize a government building complex that served as headquartersfor IS fighters. Toma Fussy repots from Baghdad. The authorities will hail this week's offensiveas a success against the jihadi group in the country. But it took months to mount this groundcampaign coordinated with coalition air strikes. The prime minister Haider al-Abadi said thearmy would soon move to retaken the northern city of Mosul and that would be the biggestprize. But it is the largest population center under the control of IS in Iraq and the battlethere will be much tougher.

　　Reports from Yemen say Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard Nasser al-Bahri has died aftera long illness. Youssef Taha reports. Medical sources in Yemen told the BBC that al-Bahri whowas also known as Abu Jandal, died on Saturday at a hospital in Mukalla in the southernprovince of Hadhramaut. He was the bodyguard and driver of Osama bin Laden, the late Al-Qaeda leader when he operated from Afghanistan. He returned to Yemen at the end of 2008following his release from the US detention center in Guantanamo. al-Bahri, who was a Yemeninational, was reputed to have been involved in military attacks during the 1990s in Bosnia,Somalia and Afghanistan.

　　More than 40 people are now known to have been killed by tornadoes, storm and flooding whichhave have disrupted much of the southern United States over the last week. Laura Beccareports from Washington. In Texas, at least 11 people were killed by powerful tornadoes withwinds of up to 200 miles an hour. Hundreds of homes were reduced to rubble in seconds andthe storm scattered debris including mangled cars for miles. The National Weather Service hasissued tornadoes watches and warnings for Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma andMississippi. Elsewhere, the warnings are for blizzard conditions. A winter storm is expected todump up to 2 feet of snow in parts of New Mexico.

　　France will today open police and legal archives from the period when the country was underGerman occupation during the second world war. These include documents from key ministriesas well as from France's provisional government after liberation. From 1940 to 1944, the Vichyregion collaborated with the invading German army.

　　A former player in El Salvador's national football team has been shot dead. The authorities theresay that Alfredo Pacheco was killed while chatting with friends at a petrol station in the city ofSanta Ana. Pacheco held more national caps than other player in El Salvador but he was bannedfrom football in 2013 for match-fixing. World news from the BBC.

　　The pro-indepence movement in the Spanish region of Catalonia is in disarray after it failed tochoose a leader. Delegates from the leftist party in the alliance, the CUP, splits over whether tosupport a pro-indepence administration led by the current regional president Artur Mas. If theleadership issue reminds unresolved, then a new regional election will be calledautomatically.

　　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.

　　Brazilian police are investigating allegations that 8 military policemen robbed, tortured andsexually molested 5 young men in Rio de Janeiro. The policemen were reportedly angry aboutbeing on duty over the holiday period. Leonardo Rusha has more details. The 5 young menaged between 13 and 23 were returning from a party on the motorbikes on Friday night whenthey were stopped at a police road block for not wearing helmets. They say the policemendemanded extortion money to let them go. Once they realized the young men didn't have muchmoney, they budged him, cut him with heated up knives and sexually molested them. Incidentsof the extortion and abusing involving police officers were not uncommon in Rio de Janeiro butthis particular incident will raise concerns 6 months before the summer Olympic.

　　The American painter, sculptor and prints-maker Ellsworth Kelly has died aged 92. During hisformative years in Paris, he developed a distinctive style combining solid shapes and brilliantcolors with forms drawn from everyday life. Later he moved back to his home city of New Yorkwhere his work heavily influenced the development of minimalism hardline painting and pop art.