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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Friday, the 6th of January, these are our main stories.

Violence has spread across Sinolua State following the arrest of a powerful Mexican narco traffic.

President Putin's announcement of an orthodox Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine has been dismissed as a stunt.

Voting for a Republican speaker of the House of Representatives has gone into a third day,

paralysing the work of government.

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We find out why that means Cameroon's youth football team is in real trouble.

Don't go outside.

That is the message the authorities have for people in parts of the northern Mexican state of Sinolua

as violence their spreads.

It follows the arrest of a powerful Mexican narco trafficor,

video Guzman in the state capital, Juliacán.

Gunman loyal to him and his father El Chapo Guzman, who is in a US prison,

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