January 24, 2021: NATO jets to eastern Europe, Burkina Faso, Sarah Palin, Capitol probe, White House

January 24, 2021: NATO sends jets to eastern Europe, Burkina Faso, Sarah Palin, Capitol probe, White House

1. NATO said it was putting forces on standby and reinforcing eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets, in what Russia denounced as an escalation of tensions over Ukraine.

2. Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, four security sources and a West African diplomat said, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou.

3. Sarah Palin and the New York Times are set to face off in a New York courtroom on Monday at a trial in which the 2008 Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor seeks to hold the newspaper liable for defamation.

4. The U.S. House probe of the deadly assault on the Capitol will share with federal prosecutors any evidence of potential crimes aimed at pushing phony Republican electors in states won by Democratic President Joe Biden, the committee's chairman said.

5. The White House is set to hold the second meeting of its Competition Council, federal agencies said on Sunday.

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