1. Turkey dismisses an Iraqi government deadline to withdraw its soldiers from the country’s north. Russia calls for a UN Security Council meeting over Ankara’s actions in Iraq and Syria.
2. US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump calls for a ban on Muslims entering the country. A Muslim rights group says it shows the US is entering the fascist realm.
3. The leader of France’s National Front, Marine Le Pen, hails record-breaking regional elections results as her far-right group tops polls in the wake of the Paris attacks.
4. Yemen’s Ansarullah movement rejects the UN-brokered talks with the Saudi-backed fugitive government due next week, unless Riyadh stops its invasion of the country.
5. Venezuela's opposition wins control of the National Assembly by a landslide, altering the balance of power 17 years after late leader Hugo Chavez rose to power.