News Headlines - 13 February 2016

▽Tokyo stocks plunge as financial sector fears turn global markets bearish - Xinhua

Tokyo stocks plunged Friday with the benchmark Nikkei average falling below the 15,000 line for the first time in 16 months.

▽Barack Obama plans intervention in Britain's EU referendum | The Guardian

Barack Obama is planning to make “a big, public reach-out” to persuade British voters to stay inside the European Union, the chair of the US Senate foreign relations committee has revealed.

▽Poland Seeks Punishment for Use of 'Polish Death Camps' Phrase - Jewish World News - Haaretz

Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase "Polish death camps" when referring to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Saturday.

▽Four billion people face severe water scarcity, new research finds | The Guardian

At least two-thirds of the global population, over 4 billion people, live with severe water scarcity for at least one month every year, according to a major new analysis... The new research also reveals that 500m people live in places where water consumption is double the amount replenished by rain for the entire year, leaving them extremely vulnerable as underground aquifers run down.

▽Six Nations: Wales and Scotland fans face tighter checks - BBC News

Rugby fans heading to Cardiff have been told to expect longer queues due to enhanced security ahead of Saturday's Six Nations game.
The Wales v Scotland showdown is the first major match at the renamed Principality Stadium since the Paris attacks in November.