Hollyoaks confirms tense return scenes for Sienna as she confronts Brody and Liberty

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Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader to speak with Biden, visit US
Venezuelan opposition politician Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who fled the country after a tumultuous election and subsequent police crackdown, said Saturday he has plans to speak with US President Joe Biden.Speaking in Argentina, where he met with President Javier Milei, Gonzalez Urrutia added that he was traveling to the United States on Sunday, though it was unclear when the conversation with Biden would take place.
Time
What We Know About the New Orleans Attack That Killed 15
"The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened," Biden said in a filmed address to the nation.
AFP
Elaborate military tunnel complex linked to Assad's palace
On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links a military complex, tasked with defending the Syrian capital, to the presidential palace facing it."We found a vast network of tunnels which lead to the presidential palace" on a neighbouring hill, Salim said.
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Justice Department enters proposed consent decree over conditions at Georgia’s troubled Fulton County Jail
The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.
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Austrian Chancellor Nehammer says he will resign after talks on forming a new government fail
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. The announcement came after the People’s Party and the Social Democrats continued coalition talks a day after the liberal Neos party’s surprise withdrawal from discussions. “Unfortunately I have to tell you today that the negotiations have ended and will not be continued by the People’s Party,” Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer from the conservative People’s Party said in a statement on social media.
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Johnson tells Republicans Trump wants one big policy bill as party charts course on agenda
House Speaker Mike Johnson informed Republicans at a closed-door meeting Saturday that Donald Trump favored moving his agenda as one sweeping package, according to sources in attendance — a key announcement fraught with risk but one that sets the stage for advancing the president-elect’s ambitious plans.
Politico
The fragile Israel-Hezbollah truce is holding so far, despite violations
The diminished Lebanese militant group has threatened to resume fighting if Israel does not withdraw its forces by the 60-day deadline.
NBC News
What we know about the victims of the New Orleans truck attack
A University of Alabama engineering student, a former wide receiver at Princeton University, a recent high school graduate, a doting father, a Brit with royal connections and a first-year college student were among the those who died on New Year's Day when a pickup truck barreled into crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
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World's oldest person dies at 116 in Japan
The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city of Ashiya where she lived announced on Saturday.After Itooka's death, the world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born on June 8, 1908, according to the US Gerontological Research Group and LongeviQuest. hih/bjt/mlm
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Biden to block new offshore drilling along most US coastline
The move may complicate Republican efforts to speed lease sales for oil and gas exploration in federal waters.
AFP
Cartoonist quits Washington Post over rejected sketch mocking owner, Trump
An award-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post has announced her resignation after a cartoon depicting the newspaper's billionaire owner groveling before Donald Trump was rejected.The cartoon -- which she included in her post -- depicts Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, as well as Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and other media and tech moguls, kneeling and holding up bags of money before a massive Trump.
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Royal family pays tribute to New Orleans attack victim, stepson of nanny to Prince William and Harry
The royal family paid tribute Saturday to Alexander Pettifer, the British man killed in the New Orleans attack, whose stepmother Tiggy Legge-Bourke was a nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry.
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Thousands without heating in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, after Russian gas supplies cut
The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.
Politico
Johnson tells House Republicans that Trump wants one ‘big beautiful’ reconciliation package
Trump’s decision is a win for House Ways & Means Chair Jason Smith.
USA TODAY
Hundreds line streets of Plains to honor Jimmy Carter's funeral procession
Carter’s ride through Plains marks the beginning of one last journey, a trip that will mirror the path of his storied life.
USA TODAY
Congress readies a no-drama certification of Trump's win, 4 years after the Capitol riot
Monday's meeting to certify the election comes amid efforts by President-elect Trump to downplay the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
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Pope Francis says bullying at school prepares students for war, not peace
Pope Francis warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace, in a speech to Catholic educators gathered at the Vatican on Saturday. Speaking to about 2,000 Italian teachers, educators and parents, Francis stressed his message against bullying, asking the audience to pledge to fight against it both at school and at home. The pontiff praised educational efforts at schools to promote peace, noting that “imagining peace” lays the foundations for “a more just and fraternal world” through “every subject taught and through the creativity of children and young people.”
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Central American troops arrive in Haiti to reinforce mission to restore order
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — About 150 military police officers from Central America have arrived in Haiti to reinforce the embattled government's fight against violent gangs that have upended daily life for millions in the Caribbean country. The deployment of around 75 security officers, mostly from Guatemala, was greeted Saturday at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince by the Kenyan commander of the U.N.-backed mission that for months has been struggling to restore order. “The gangs have only two choices: surrender, lay down their weapons, and face justice, or face us in the field,” the officer, Godfrey Otunge, said in remarks at a welcoming ceremony.
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Dangerous and expansive cold pattern jolting the central, eastern half of the United States
AccuWeather forecasters warn that the waves of Arctic air spilling into the Plains and East will continue to expand southward across the nation, yielding notably cooler conditions as far south as the Southeast coast throughout the upcoming week. This week, the cold pattern will be periodically rejuvenated as additional shots of energy pulse southward across the country, ushering in more brisk, Canadian air with temperatures well below the historical average. Through at least Jan. 12, widespread
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39 bell tolls begin final national sendoff for Jimmy Carter
Mourners began paying their respects to Jimmy Carter on Saturday, as a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for America's longest-lived president got underway.From there he will be escorted to the Carter Presidential Center where he will lie in repose from 7:00 pm on Saturday (0000 GMT Sunday) to 6:00 am Tuesday to allow the public to pay their respects.

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