1. The UN envoy for Yemen calls for a ceasefire in that country as fighting pushes the Arab nation closer to famine and deeper into humanitarian crisis.
2. France passes a new spying law, granting sweeping powers to snoop on citizens on the same day news about US espionage against French leaders caused an uproar.
3. Russia extends the ban on food imports from the West in retaliation for the extension of European sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
4. Eurozone finance ministers suspend crunch talks on Greece’s debt crisis as rifts remain between Athens and its European creditors over the issue.
5. British police forcibly drag a group of disabled anti-austerity protesters, some in wheelchairs, out of the House of Commons.