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• Rudy Giuliani reaches settlement deal to end $146 million defamation case

  16-01-2025 23:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement agreement with the former Georgia election workers he owed almost $150 million to, according to a court filing Thursday.
  
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• US imposes sanctions on Sudan’s army chief over tactics in deadly civil war

  16-01-2025 23:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Measures come a week after Washington also sanctioned Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s rival, Mohamed Hamdan DagaloThe United States has imposed sanctions on Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of choosing war over negotiations to bring an end to the conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes.The US treasury department said in a statement that under Burhan’s leadership, the army’s war tactics have included indisc
  
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• Georgia senator arrested after he tried to defy a ban on entering the House chamber

  16-01-2025 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Georgia state senator who was previously banned from the state House chamber was arrested when he tried to enter the chamber for the governor’s state of the state speech and got into a shoving match with House employees.
  
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• Goodbye, Joe: Biden's Legacy (Part 1)

  16-01-2025 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How will he be remembered on the world stage?
  
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• Elon Musk to speak at Trump's inauguration weekend rally

  16-01-2025 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk is among the speakers who will precede President-elect Donald Trump at his pre-inaugural rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, according to a source familiar with the planning.
  
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• Biden administration has no plans to fine companies if TikTok ban goes into effect

  16-01-2025 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Biden administration does not plan to levy billions of dollars in fines against companies that allow access to TikTok in the U.S.
  
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• Brazilian court denies Bolsonaro’s request to travel to Trump’s inauguration

  16-01-2025 22:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request by former President Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily restore his passport so that he could attend the inauguration in Washington of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump next week.Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who Bolsonaro frequently has called his personal foe, said in the ruling that Bolsonaro currently holds no position that would allow him to represent Brazil at the event and that the former president did not adequately prove to the court th
  
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• Garland stresses importance of 'independent Justice Department' in farewell speech

  16-01-2025 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered his farewell address to the Department of Justice and emphasized the importance of the department's independence and reflected on his years of service.
  
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• Barbie doll of Aaliyah sells out on late R&B star's birthday

  16-01-2025 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Interest in the Barbie doll of Aaliyah is truly “One in a Million” — and it shows, as the doll has already sold out.
  
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• Bob Uecker, beloved baseball announcer and 'Major League' actor, dies at 90

  16-01-2025 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Beloved baseball broadcaster and actor Bob Uecker, who parlayed an unremarkable playing career into a decadeslong stint behind the mic and in front of the camera, died Thursday, officials said.
  
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• Justin Baldoni sues Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400 million in damages

  16-01-2025 21:34 via nbcnews.com
  Justin Baldoni has sued his "It Ends With Us" co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for defamation, seeking $400 million in damages. NBC News' Chloe Melas reports on the latest development in the bitter legal battle between the stars.
  
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• Mike Johnson picks Rep. Rick Crawford as next intel chairman after ousting previous chair

  16-01-2025 21:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson selected Rep. Rick Crawford to serve as the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee after ousting Rep. Mike Turner.
  
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• UK leader Starmer signs ‘100-year partnership’ agreement with Ukraine during trip to Kyiv

  16-01-2025 21:22 via foxnews.com
  
  U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a 100-year partnership agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday, part of a European show of support and promises to keep helping Ukraine endure in its nearly three-year war with Russia.The announcement came days before Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president with skepticism of America’s military burden in Europe and what he says is a plan to end the continent’s biggest conflict since World War II.UK PM STARMER HITS
  
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• Key events that led to Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza

  16-01-2025 21:12 via bbc.com
  
  The ceasefire agreement in the Gaza war follows 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
  
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• Here's what we know about the Americans set to be released in first phase of the hostage deal

  16-01-2025 20:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sagui Dekel-Chen, an American-Israeli who refurbished old buses into mobile tech classrooms, has not met his third daughter, who was bornafter he was taken hostage.
  
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• Scott Bessent believes federal minimum wage should not be increased

  16-01-2025 20:37 via nbcnews.com
  Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump's pick to serve as treasury secretary, told Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that the minimum wage is "more of a statewide" issue and that he believes there should not be an increase to the federal minimum wage.
  
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• Montana House endorses transgender bathroom ban affecting fellow lawmakers

  16-01-2025 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Montana’s Republican-controlled House endorsed a ban on transgender people using bathrooms in public buildings that do not align with their sex assigned at birth — a change that would complicate daily life for two fellow lawmakers.
  
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• Israel, Hamas cease-fire held up over renewed debate over Philadelphi security corridor, terrorist exchange

  16-01-2025 20:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Disputes over the now infamous Philadelphi security corridor are once again plaguing efforts to secure a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, an Israeli spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News Digital on Thursday. Hopes of cease-fire and hostage exchange deal first confirmed by the U.S. and Qatar on Wednesday appeared to be quelled by the time Americans were waking up on Thursday morning."The terrorist organization Hamas repeatedly raises new demands at the last minute
  
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• David Lynch, visionary filmmaker who specialized in the surreal, dies at 78

  16-01-2025 19:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  David Lynch, the surrealist artist who plumbed the darkness lurking underneath American normalcy in the landmark television series "Twin Peaks" and the dreamlike films "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive," has died.
  
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• Wendy Williams says she's not cognitively impaired and feels trapped in guardianship

  16-01-2025 19:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former talk show host Wendy Williams told “The Breakfast Club” radio show Thursday morning that she’s not cognitively impaired as her guardian has alleged, saying through tears that she’s being kept in a “luxury prison” with only limited contact with her family.
  
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• Hamas knows it hasn't achieved its aims - but still claims victory

  16-01-2025 19:13 via bbc.com
  
  Hamas officials insist that Israel's failure to eliminate the group constitutes a victory.
  
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• Weekly Quiz: Which fast food chain told people to pay up or get out?

  16-01-2025 19:11 via bbc.com
  
  How much attention did you pay to what has been going on in the world over the past seven days?
  
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• Ron DeSantis picks Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill Marco Rubio's Senate seat

  16-01-2025 19:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday appointed state Attorney General Ashley Moody to the U.S. Senate, setting her up to fill Sen. Marco Rubio's seat when he joins the Trump administraiton.
  
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• Democrats concerned after Mike Johnson fires top Republican from House committee reportedly at Trump’s request – live

  16-01-2025 18:43 via theguardian.com
  
  House speaker removed intelligence committee chair Mike Turner, whose stances have run afoul with TrumpHere’s what Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, wrote on X about his decision to name the state’s attorney general, Ashley Moody, to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate:Florida deserves a senator who stands unapologetically for conservative principles, supports law enforcement, has a strong record of combatting illegal immigration, and is ready to deliver on President Trump’
  
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• Islamist groups in Middle East will emerge from Gaza war weakened

  16-01-2025 18:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Hamas, Hezbollah and other militia are enfeebled – but Palestine is likely to stay at forefront of global politicsMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe ceasefire due to come into force on Sunday, barring a major last-minute problem, will cement massive and rapid changes across the Middle East and may seal a significant defeat for the Islamist militant groups that have been powerful actors in the region for years.Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and assorted Shia Muslim militia in I
  
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• US says it is ‘confident’ ceasefire will go into effect on Sunday as Israeli cabinet due to vote on Friday – live

  16-01-2025 18:36 via theguardian.com
  US secretary of state Antony Blinken says he is confident ceasefire will happen; Israeli cabinet to convene on Friday morning to ratify the dealThe devastating impact of 15 months of war on GazaHow Trump loomed over Gaza ceasefire negotiationsKey mediator Qatar said that 33 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza would be released in the first stage of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the war in the Palestinian territory.Israel earlier said it would release about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in the first
  
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• Brazil court rejects Jair Bolsonaro’s bid to attend Trump’s inauguration

  16-01-2025 18:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Judge rules former president’s passport will not be returned in case he uses it to flee abroad amid coup investigationBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro – who is under investigation for allegedly plotting a coup – has seen his hopes of attending Donald Trump’s inauguration dashed after a judge ruled his confiscated passport would not be returned in case the disgraced politician used it to flee abroad.Bolsonaro’s travel document was seized by federal poli
  
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• Woman with ‘distorted notion of revenge’ sentenced for stabbing transgender woman

  16-01-2025 18:33 via theguardian.com
  Summer Betts-Ramseyand three others given youth detention for attack on victim who had misled one of the defendants over gender identityA woman who carried out a transphobic stabbing attack motivated by a “distorted notion of revenge” has been sentenced to more than eight years in youth detention.The victim, a transgender woman who was 18 at the time, was stabbed nine times in Harrow last February in an attack involving five young people wearing masks, the Old Bailey heard. Continue
  
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• UK politics live: Kemi Badenoch describes Rachel Reeves as a ‘woman problem’ for Keir Starmer

  16-01-2025 18:32 via theguardian.com
  Opposition leader says PM’s ‘woman problem is not my concern’ when asked jokingly if she would back Starmer if he sacked the chancellorRichard Adams is the Guardian’s education editor.Thirty-two sixth form colleges across England will be hit by more strikes over a pay disparity between staff employed by academies and those in standalone colleges.We will never accept a situation in which college teachers in non-academised colleagues are paid less than their academised peer
  
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• Russian diplomats accessed private area of UK parliament in security breach

  16-01-2025 18:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: MPs warned not to invite Russian diplomats to parliament after incident said to have alarmed ministersRussian diplomats accessed a private area of parliament in a major security breach just before Christmas that has alarmed security officials and prompted private warnings from the speakers of both houses, the Guardian understands.The small group of diplomats joined a public tour of the Houses of Parliament and then broke off to enter a part of the House of Lords that was out of bounds
  
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• Adopted wild boar Rillette can stay with her owner, French court rules

  16-01-2025 18:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Authorities had threatened to remove and even euthanise the animal farmer Elodie Cappe had taken in as a pigletA wild boar adopted by a French horse breeder can remain with her owner, a court has ruled, after authorities’ threats to remove and even euthanise her triggered a storm of protest.Found as a tiny piglet near rubbish bins outside a horse farm in Chaource, central France, in April 2023, Rillette has grown into a large sow who runs around with the horses and dogs on the farm. Contin
  
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• Teenager guilty of murdering Elianne Andam in Croydon after row over teddy

  16-01-2025 18:22 via theguardian.com
  Hassan Sentamu stabbed Elianne, 15, in neck outside shopping centre in September 2023A teenager has been found guilty of the murder of a 15-year-old girl after a row over a teddy bear.Hassan Sentamu, who is now 18, admitted manslaughter after stabbing Elianne Andam in the neck outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London, in September 2023. Continue reading...
  
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• Polarized reactions to Biden’s farewell speech validate divisions he highlighted

  16-01-2025 18:20 via theguardian.com
  Responses from lawmakers underlined the very democratic fragility the president looked to highlightJoe Biden’s farewell address warning that “an oligarchy is taking shape” which threatens American democracy sparked polarized reactions from lawmakers that seemed to validate the very democratic fragility the president looked to highlight.Speaking from the Oval Office for the final time before president-elect Donald Trump’s return to power, on Wednesday Biden sounded an alar
  
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• LA fires live updates: California weather eases up as firefighters report gains against massive wildfires

  16-01-2025 18:20 via theguardian.com
  Improved conditions should help fire crews and allow residents to return to their neighborhoodsEasing of extreme winds expected to strengthen efforts to put out blazesAs officials answered reporters’ questions, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone, said that it is still unsafe for people to return to their homes, even for those who want to view the conditions of their houses for even 15 minutes.“We just don’t want anybody to come in and for it to not be safe,” he
  
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• ‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Trump Jr event in Greenland

  16-01-2025 18:07 via theguardian.com
  
  People in Maga hats at meal last week did not know Donald Trump’s son and were invited off the street, hotel boss saysA group of Greenlanders who attended a lunch hosted by Donald Trump Jr wearing Make America Great Again caps were not dedicated supporters of the US president-elect but homeless people enticed by the prospect of free food, it has been claimed.Trump Jnr visited the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk, last week, shortly after his father declared it was an “absolute necessity&rdq
  
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• Ron DeSantis picks Florida attorney general to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

  16-01-2025 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Ashley Moody, Trump loyalist with conservative track record, will replace president-elect’s secretary of state pickThe Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has announced he is appointing Ashley Moody, the state’s attorney general, to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat. Rubio is Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.Moody has been Florida’s attorney general since 2019, having replaced Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for US attorney general. Rubio had been in the Senate sin
  
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• Plans for Bible reading and Latin in Italian schools criticised as ‘retrograde’

  16-01-2025 17:57 via theguardian.com
  Education minister reveals revamp of national curriculum guidelines and says children must ‘learn to write better’Bible reading, Latin and learning poetry by heart could return to Italian primary and middle schools as part of a revamp of national curriculum guidelines criticised as “retrograde” and “nostalgic”.The education minister, Giuseppe Valditara, unveiled the guidelines, which predominantly affect children aged three to 14 and are expected to take effec
  
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• Avanti West Coast train staff cancel two strike days to allow for ‘intensive talks’

  16-01-2025 17:51 via theguardian.com
  
  RMT union says ‘suspension reflects our goodwill’ though Sunday strikes until June remain in place for nowStrikes by Avanti West Coast train staff scheduled for the next two Sundays have been suspended to allow for “intensive talks”, raising hopes that a run of planned disruption every weekend until June could be called off.The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said that the next two dates in the series of Sunday strikes by onboard train managers would be called of
  
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• American college rape suspect is being extradited to the US

  16-01-2025 17:43 via foxnews.com
  
  A California resident is being extradited back to the U.S. Thursday after allegedly sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and then reportedly messaging her on Facebook "So I raped you" years later. Ian Cleary, who was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service, was handed over to American authorities today at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, prosecutors told The Associated Press. Cleary, 31, of Saratoga, California, was detained in April in Metz after a three-y
  
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• Pope Francis injured as Vatican confirms 2nd fall in matter of weeks

  16-01-2025 17:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis' arm is in a sling Thursday after the Vatican confirmed he was injured in a fall, the second such incident in a matter of weeks.The Vatican said Francis fell inside his residence Thursday morning and said he is now using a cloth sling to support his right arm. Francis also fell and injured his face just six weeks ago in December."This morning, due to a fall at the Santa Marta house, Pope Francis suffered a contusion on his right forearm, without fractures. The arm was immo
  
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• Yvette Cooper announces urgent national review on grooming gangs

  16-01-2025 17:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials say review is not national inquiry ministers have been pressed for after series of X posts by Elon MuskYvette Cooper has announced an urgent national review of the scale of grooming gangs as part of a range of new measures to tackle the issue, following sustained political pressure.The review, intended to last three months and led by Louise Casey, who led a report into sexual abuse in Rotherham, is not the full national inquiry demanded by the Conservatives but does mark a notable shif
  
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• Sibling rivalry: parents favour older children and daughters, study finds

  16-01-2025 17:28 via theguardian.com
  
  International research also reveals conscientious or agreeable children are likely to receive preferential treatmentAs Philip Larkin once noted, your mum and dad have a lasting effect on you. Now, researchers have revealed which siblings in a family are more likely to be favoured: it is bad news for sons.Researchers have found daughters, older children and those who are more conscientious or agreeable are likely to receive preferential treatment. Continue reading...
  
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• Up to 50 people on small boat bound for Canary Islands feared drowned

  16-01-2025 16:51 via theguardian.com
  Migration NGO says at least 10,457 people died while trying to reach Spain by sea last yearAs many as 50 people are thought to have died after a boat bound for the Canary Islands got into difficulties after a 13-day voyage along the perilous Atlantic migration route from west Africa.The migration NGO Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders) said the boat set off from Mauritania on 2 January carrying 86 people. It said it alerted the Moroccan and Spanish authorities after receiving reports that the
  
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• Arctic blast to bring dangerously cold temperatures to much of US

  16-01-2025 16:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Inauguration on track to be coldest in 40 years as more than 300 million people could be hit by below-average freezeArctic air is expected to sweep across much of the United States later this week and into next week, bringing dangerously cold temperatures and severe wind chills.The National Weather Service has warned that this frigid air will move over the Rockies and Great Plains on Friday, and by Saturday night it will head toward the Gulf coast and the midwest, reaching the east coast by Sund
  
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• What we know about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, and what it means for Gaza and the hostages

  16-01-2025 16:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas could end 15 months of war in Gaza that has seen tens of thousands of people killed and left hostages in limbo.
  
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• Wendy Williams speaks out against guardianship in rare interview: ‘I feel like I’m in prison’

  16-01-2025 16:38 via theguardian.com
  
  TV host claims in Breakfast Club interview she is experiencing ‘emotional abuse’ after entering care facilityWendy Williams has spoken out about her court-mandated guardianship in a rare interview on Thursday morning, saying that it makes her “feel like I’m in prison”.The longtime TV host and personality called into the popular Breakfast Club radio show for an interview, in which she discussed her current situation living in a care facility. Williams has largely bee
  
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• Kirby 'confident' Americans in Gaza will be freed Sunday amid reports of Israel, Hamas deal holdup

  16-01-2025 16:36 via foxnews.com
  
  White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said Thursday morning that he is "confident" that a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal can still be "implemented" Sunday as families of two Americans slated for immediate release await answers. "There's a deal," Kirby told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. "We're confident that we're going to be able to start implementing it on Sunday. There are some implementing details that still need to be ironed out. We're working w
  
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• UK to back Ukraine ‘beyond this terrible war’ with 100-year pact, says Starmer

  16-01-2025 16:21 via theguardian.com
  
  PM visits Kyiv to agree partnership and says Putin shows no signs of wanting to stop ‘unrelenting aggression’Keir Starmer has announced a “historic” 100-year partnership with Ukraine, saying the UK would support the country “beyond this terrible war” and into a future where it is “free and thriving again”.Speaking during his first trip to Kyiv as prime minister, Starmer said the unprecedented agreement reflected the “huge affection between ou
  
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• Santa Ana winds die down as crews try to contain the wildfires

  16-01-2025 16:21 via nbcnews.com
  As fire crews continue to work to contain the ongoing wildfires, NBC News’ Steve Patterson reports from a hard hit Altadena, Calif., on the favorable weather conditions that are helping firefighters.
  
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• Gaza deal should benefit Netanyahu in short term, but he is critically exposed

  16-01-2025 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli PM must appease his coalition to avoid fresh elections, as well as reckoning with unpredictable TrumpMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe nature of Israel’s febrile coalition politics has long favoured theatrics. The standing and psychology of its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, adds a further element of panic and cynical calculation.All those characteristics were in evidence as Israel and Hamas edged towards a ceasefire deal, particularly in Netanyahu’s struggle to
  
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