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Kim Jong Un has declared his intent to expand North Korea's nuclear arsenal and operational range - calling on the United States to respect his country's nuclear power, in a rare message to Washington.

The United States and North Korea could "get along", Kim added, but only if the US accepts that North Korea's nuclear weapons are here to stay.

His comments, which were made at a five-yearly party congress held in the capital Pyongyang, are seen as leaving a door open to talks with US President Donald Trump ahead of Trump's visit to China in April.

However, Kim dashes hopes of any diplomatic thaw with South Korea, calling them the North's "most hostile entity".

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Four people shot dead by Cuban border guards in a US-registered speedboat were Cuban nationals living in the United States, Cuba's government said.

In a statement posted online, Cuba's interior ministry said that the speedboat's passengers - the four who were killed and six others who were wounded, also Cuban citizens - opened fire on a coast guard vessel that approached them near an island off the country's northern coast on Wednesday.

The 10 individuals, some with previous criminal records, were armed and intended to "carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes", the statement said.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US was also investigating the "highly unusual" incident.

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WARNING: Contains graphic imagery of victims of stabbings and shootings, as well images of those killed in street violence.

Mexico's president has praised the special forces for "bringing down" the country's most wanted man, drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes.

Oseguera, better known as "El Mencho", died in custody on Sunday, shortly after being captured amid a bloody firefight in Jalisco.

But in another Mexican cartel hotspot – Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state – the vacuum left by the removal of a powerful cartel leader can trigger a surge in violence as warring factions battle for control, as the BBC's Quentin Sommerville found out.

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As a landmark trial against some of the world's biggest social media companies continues in Los Angeles, we look at how attitudes towards social media are changing.

With lawmakers discussing the merits of banning social media for under-16s, or introducing extra regulation of tech platforms to protect children, we ask our technology editor Zoe Kleinman whether this is a seminal moment.

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Viktoria Honcharuk is a Ukrainian who left behind her dream job on Wall Street as an investment analyst at Morgan Stanley to become a combat medic, on the front lines of the conflict in 2022.

She speaks to the BBC as Kyiv marks four years of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's chief peace negotiator will meet the US envoy Steve Witkoff in Geneva on Thursday.

It comes ahead of new - three-way talks with Russia, expected in early March.

The meetings are the latest round of negotiations - that so far have failed to make any meaningful progress on ending the Kremlin's four-year invasion.

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Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said he passed on information on Lord Mandelson to the police, appearing to confirm reports he told the Metropolitan Police the peer was a flight risk.

It comes after lawyers for the peer complained about the force's decision to take him into custody on Monday, as part of its probe into misconduct in public office allegations.

Sir Lindsay told MPs he had passed on "relevant" information about the peer in "good faith" and it was "regrettable" it had ended up in the media.

Lord Mandelson's lawyers say he had agreed to an interview next month, and the decision to arrest him was prompted by a "baseless" suggestion he was planning to move abroad.

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Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho”, was killed during a security operation to arrest him on Sunday, which led to a wave of violence across the country.

He was Mexico's most wanted man and leader of the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel - one of the most powerful and feared cartels in the country.

They then unleashed a wave of violence across 20 Mexican states, and the threat of further violence looms in the country.

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Donald Trump hailed his first year back in the White House as he delivered the longest-ever State of the Union speech to Congress.

In an address lasting one hour and 47 minutes, he repeatedly pushed his economic agenda, saying he had overseen a "turnaround for the ages”.

Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's governor, said the president "offered no real solutions to our nation's pressing challenges”.

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Four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, people across Ukraine have remembered their dead from a war which shows no sign of ending.

As the conflict enters a fifth year, the Ukrainian military continues to resist being overrun by Russian forces, but military losses are mounting on both sides and Ukraine's population faces near-daily aerial attacks.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said "Ukraine never chose this war", adding: "We have defended our independence, we have not lost our statehood."

The Kremlin, which believed it could capture Kyiv within days, acknowledged its war aims "haven't been fully achieved yet" and said it intended to continue attacking Ukraine.

The BBC's Lucy Hockings presents this special programme from Kyiv, with reporters on the ground and around the world, looking at the impact that this devastating conflict has had and assess where it could be headed.

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Today, Adam and Chris speak to the deputy prime minister David Lammy about his justice reforms. He acknowledged the court backlog will continue to rise and may be at the same level as it is today at the next general election despite the government’s planned reforms. He also said that Labour would be “out on their bums” if they haven’t delivered the change the public want by the time of the next election.

00:00 - 06:01 David Lammy on Justice Reforms

06:02 - 09:32 - Will the courts backlog go down?

09:33 - 13:28 - What are some of the issues with the Justice system?

13:29 - 15:17 - Prison buses to skip traffic lights

15:18 - 17:48 - Lammy on supermarkets protecting chocolate

17:49 - 19:04 - Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

19:05 - 22:09 - Peter Mandelson arrested

22:09 - 26:53 - Reflections on the interview