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Venezuela's state financial controller declared opposition leader and self-declared "president" Juan Guaido ineligible to hold public office for 15 years because his personal financial statements contained odd inconsistencies.  This comes days after authorities arrested Guaido's chief of staff in a raid on his office that yielded cash and weapons.  Guaido, with the backing of the US and some of its allies, has for several weeks tried to lead an uprising against Socialist President Nicolas Maduro - that hasn't happened, the military has remained loyal to the democratically-elected government, and the Russians just unloaded a bunch of troops and gear to support Maduro.

The UK House of Commons will take a third crack at the government's plan to pull the country out of the European Union.  But this time, the only things under consideration will be the three things the UK negotiated with the EU to get a Brexit deal:  The Irish "backstop", the divorce bill, and citizens' rights.  Stripping it down to this bare minimum apparently gets around Commons Speaker John Bercow's ban on a third vote on PM Theresa May's full Brexit package.  However, it is not clear that even a fraction of the May plan would pass - Northern Ireland's DUP says nothing changed to alter its opposition and Labour's Jeremy Corbyn says one part can't be separated from the rest, and thus Labour still rejects it.

After nearly a week of totally-not-massaging the vote totals, Thailand's electoral authority announced that the pro-military junta party won last weekend's election, the first poll since the 2014 coup.  The junta and the democratic opposition are both claiming mandates to form a government.

More than 10,000 travelers were stranded on either side of the Atlantic Ocean when the Iceland discount carrier Wow Air suddenly went belly-up.  The airline announced the closure on its website on Thursday, advising passengers to book new flights on other airlines.  Which caused much consternation to people who'd already checked in and were waiting to board their flights.  "They didn't even notify any of us directly, had to find out from twitter and reddit," said one upset traveler in Toronto.  Wow had gained a reputation as a thrifty carrier for offering flights from eastern North America to Europe via a stopover in Iceland.

At least 19 people died and at least 73 are injured in a huge fire in a 22-storey office building in an upmarket commercial area of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.  Firefighters warn the death toll might be worse because many people may have been trapped inside.  Although this was a modern building, Bangladesh is notorious from high fire death tolls because of lax enforcement of fire codes.

A Turkish man is lucky to be alive, although some people might attempt to call him Mary Poppins.  A powerful storm blew through the town of Kadirli, and outdoor market worker Sadik Kocadalli jumped on an umbrella stand to secure it.  It didn't work.  "It went up three, four metres and I thought, 'this won't work' so I jumped down," said Sadik, "Thankfully, I am OK.  The umbrella hit a pole and fell back down."  Naturally, social media had fun with it with one person calling Sadik the Turkish space agency's "first #AstroNOT".  Another congratulated him on his moon landing.