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There are still more than a hundred people missing at the scene of a 17-storey apartment block that fell over in an earthquake in Tainan City, Taiwan.  Authorities confirmed that 14 people died and more than 200 (and a dog) were rescued.  What is striking about the disaster is the limited scope of the damage; that practically every other building in the area is unscathed, except for the ones that caught the Golden Dragon Apartments' debris as it fell over and a handful of others.  Construction codes in Taiwan mandate that buildings should be able to withstand a quake even stronger than yesterday's magnitude 6.4 temblor.  The investigation will determine what it was about the design, construction, or other factors that went wrong.

North Korea is moving up its planned "satellite" launch, starting the countdown today.  Pyongyang now says it will happen sometime between 7 and 14 February, up from the original window of 8 to 25 February.  The US, South Korea, Japan, and most of the rest of the world condemn the launch as a cover story for an illegal ballistic missile test.

A Turkish official says that the number of Syrians piled up at a closed border crossing has rapidly swelled to 35,000, up from 20,000 at the start of the weekend.  The EU is urging Ankara to open the border, but Turkey says there are no plans to let the refugees through, although it will send help across the frontier in the form of food, blankets, and shelters.  The people are fleeing a Syrian government troop advance, backed by Russian air power.  NATO accuses Moscow of undermining the peace process with such air strikes.

Ecuador called in the Turkish ambassador and registered a formal protest with Ankara after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's personal guards roughed up some protesters at a speech in Quito.  Erdogan and his thugs quickly left the country after the incident, before authorities could ask the guards to surrender their passports and face justice for their violence.  This happened during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip promoting trade between the two countries.  The protesters blasted Erdogan for the high civilian death toll from Turkey's crackdown on Kurdish groups.  One of the injured Ecuadorians is lawmaker who posted photos of his injuries to social media.

El Salvador police arrested four former soldiers in the notorious 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests and their housekeepers.  A fifth was already under arrest in Florida and a US judge last week ruled he can be sent to Spain for trial.  The Jesuits were scholars, recognized for their work in theology, psychology, and social anthropology.  Five of the six were Spanish, and thus Madrid wants to put the killers on trial.  The Roman Catholic priests' "crime" was to pressure the fascist government to seek a peaceful resolution to its war with the FLMN Leftist guerrillas. 

British campaigner Peter Saunders is leaving the Vatican advisory commission on sexual abuse by the clergy.  He's one of only two people on the panel who are actual survivors of abuse by Roman Catholic priests.  Saunders campaigned against Australian cardinal George Pell, who was accused of  ignoring a complaint of child abuse.  He also spoke out against Chilean bishop Juan de La Cruz Barros, who is suspected of having protected a pedophile priest.  Last week, Saunders said, "People in Chile now see the commission as a laughing stock, and I cannot pretend the commission means anything unless he (Pope Francis) sacks Barros." 

A big avalanche in the Austrian Alps killed five Czech skiers.  This happened south of Innsbruck, on the Junsjoch mountain near the Wattental valley. 

Somali authorities confirm that the explosion on a crowded passenger jet last week was an act of terrorism.  "It was a bomb that exploded in the Daallo Airlines flight," said Transport Minister Ali Ahmed Jamac, "It was meant to kill all aboard."  The pilot managed to bring the damaged Airbus 321 back to the Mogadishu airport.  Only one passenger appears to have been sucked out of the gaping hole in the fuselage, and some reports suggest that person was the bomber.