Here are today's top stories:

- U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to ensure the U.S. nuclear arsenal is at the 'top of the pack', Reuters reports.

- In his first public appearance since the President was sworn in, Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon, said that the 'deconstruction of the administrative state' has just begun, The New York Times reports.

- Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn defends the 'unconditional right' of Europeans to remain in the U.K. in an interview with the Leading European Newspaper Alliance and maintains that 'the problem is not controlling immigration, but exploitation '.

- Presidential candidates in Ecuador started to explain their strategies to gain support from other parties and political organizations Reuters reports.

- Kim Jong-nam, the oldest brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was assassinated with a chemical weapon, nerve agent VX, El País reports.

- The Washington Post reports that a Texas student discovered a Walt Whitman novel titled the 'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle', which was lost 165 years ago.

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