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　　The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, hastold the BBC that his military is close to defeatingthe Islamist group Boko Haram. Mr Buhari said themilitants could no longer mount conventionalattacks against government forces or centers of population and have been reduced to suicidebombings. Jessica M reports.

　　"President Buhari was confident. In a BBC interview, he said that we can now say thattechnically, we have won the war. He credited efforts to retrain and resupply the Nigeria army,saying that troops have almost expelled Boko Haram from Adamawa and Yobe state. TheJihadists, he said, are now strong only in their heartland of Borno State. He also said that manyof the 1.5 million prople displaced by the fighting are now returning home. However, over thepast two months, Boko Haram is reported to have mounted more than 100 attacks and killedmore than 1,000 people."

　　A small detachment of Afghanistan government forces is reported to be held up in a militarybase in the south of the country surrounded by the Taliban. The militants are said to havecaptured almost of all Sangin district in Helmand province, storming the main police base andthe administrative headquarters on Wednesday. Some local officials are reported to have beenexecuted. This man was driven from his home by the advance of the Taliban.

　　"We fled home with the clothes in our backs. We left our livestock behind. Yesterday I returnedto Sangin, I went to the market and saw Taliban militants there. The market was closed. Peopleare stuck in their homes."

　　The former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has told the BBC that a Russian court'sdecision to issue an arrest warrant against him was politically motivated. Mr Khodorkovsky,who now lives in exile, spent a decade in prison on fraud charges, which he says werebrought to silence him. He has now accused President Putin of again moving against himbecause of his support for opposition movements. He said he wanted to help the newgeneration to become future leaders.

　　"I think my task, my objective, as I see it, is to help young political activists in Russia to gainpolitical experiences and to present themselves to society as alternatives to the existingregime."

　　Iraqi forces are continuing their offensive to try to drive the Islamic State fighters out of thecenter of Ramadi. Up to 300 Jihadist fighters are thought to be still in the town and they haveshown no sign of giving up. Thomas Fessy reports from Baghdad.

　　"Ground forces have been concentrating on the city center, the last district held by IslamicState militants. And there, Iraqi troops and Sunni tribal fighters have faced sniper fire and havehad to dodge roadside bombs and booby-traps planted by the Jihadists. Questions remainover the plight of thousands of people possibly trapped in the area. Yet security officials areconfident Ramadi will be retaken this week." Thomas Fessy.

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　　The UN Security Council has unanimously backed last week's agreement between rivals factionsin Libya to form a government of national unity. Libya's ambassador Ibrahim D praised the deal.

　　"This agreement is the only hope for our marching from chaos and putting an end tobloodshed, the holy hope we have to ensure reconciliation and understanding, to ensure thejustice and the rule of law prevails following years and years of atrocities, of fears andinsecurity, both inside the country and outside, with Libyan refugees and displacedindividuals."

　　Over 3,000 prisoners in the US state of Washington have been released early because of acomputer glitch. The bug miscalculated the sentence reductions they were entitled to for goodbehavior.

　　Christmas lights in American household used up more electricity during the holy season thansome small centuries consumed in an entire year. According to researchers from the Center ofGlobal Development, that's more power than is used annually by Ethiopia, Tanzania or ElSalvador. Laura B has the story.

　　"The study says that America burnt 6.63 billion kilowatt hours over the Christmas season,shining brightly-colored lights and trees cross roof tops and gardens. That's enough power torun 14 million refrigerators. But it's still only a tiny fraction of what the US uses in a year.Compare that to El Salvador. Its annual electricity consumption is 5.35 billion kilowatt hours.The researchers say they are not anti-Christmas and the lights, they say, are a beautiful scene.But they do want to show the difference in energy use between rich and poorer countries."

　　An unemployed Senegalese migrant has won more than 400,000 dollars in Spain' Christmaslottery. The 35-year-old man and his wife had to be rescued by the Spanish coastguard whenthey made the boat journey through Morocco eight years ago. Since then, they have lived fromhand to mouth, sometimes working as agriculture laborers and surviving on about five dollars aday.