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- The militant group Army of Islam holding BBC Middle East correspondent Alan Johnston captive has renewed its threat to kill him. (CNN)
- The Central Intelligence Agency releases secret documents detailing illegal activities, including a plot to hire members of the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro and domestic spying.(Reuters)
- On the eve of Gordon Brown assuming office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Conservative Member of Parliament Quentin Davies defects to the Labour Party. (Financial Times)
- An International Atomic Energy Agency team heads to North Korea to see if Pyongyang's nuclear reactor has been shut down. (Reuters)
- Tony Blair and Arnold Schwarzenegger hold talks at 10 Downing Street on Blair's last day as Prime Minister, with the environment and climate change as the primary issue. (Guardian UK) (Guardian UK)
- In the United Kingdom, hundreds of people are evacuated from villages in South Yorkshire and a section of the M1 motorway is closed amid fears of an imminent collapse of the dam at the Ulley reservoir, following heavy rainfall and widespread flooding across the UK. (BBC)
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