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A close aid of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reported to be on his way to the United States amid a flurry of diplomacy ahead of possible summit. The South Korean news agency says Kim Yong-chol is due to arrive in Washington on Wednesday. Here's our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. He's a very experienced adviser. He's a former spy chief. He's a former general and he accompanied Kim Jong-un on both of his recent trips to China to meet with President Xi Jinping. He accompanied Kim Jong-un's younger sister when she came to the winter Olympics in South Korea. The fact that he's now heading to the United States suggests that he is going to have some sort of meeting with senior US officials. And that suggests that things are picking up although that is no guaranette at all that the summit will take place.

Financial markets have reacted negatively to the political uncertainty in Italy where the radical parties the League and Five Star have said they'll vote down a technocrat government in the making. The far-right League has warned its ally in the March elections Silvio Berlusconi not to back the interim government that the former IMF economist Carlo Cottarelli is trying to put together. A conference aimed to agree a road map to reunify Libya is being held in Paris today. Here's the BBC's North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad. One of the key aims as to reignite a momentum for a proposed UN plan to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in the conflict trodden state before the end of the year. The meeting brings together four rival Libyan delegations headed by the country's prime minister who sits in the capital Tripoli, the military strongman Khalifa Haftar who commands forces in East Libya as well as the heads of two rival parliamentary assemblies. Libya fractured along regional, political, military and tribal lines since the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi from power in 2011.

The long search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has formally ended. A deep-sea search vessel has now completed its 90-day operation in the southern Indian Ocean. The survey by the US-based Ocean Infinity was conducted over a new zone of 80,000 square kilometres. The plane went missing in March 2014 with 239 people on board. You're listening world news from the BBC.