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The US President Donald Trump has sent 1,500 troops to the US-Mexico border to install barriers as part of his immigration crackdown.

Up to 10,000 troops could be ordered there, while a military source says they won't be involved in "law enforcement”.

Donald Trump has been highly critical of the Biden administration's approach to immigration, pledging to address "record" illegal border crossings and casting current migration as an "invasion".

Crossings did reach record levels under President Biden, but numbers began dropping significantly even before Trump won the election.

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We look at Prince Harry’s settlement with the publisher of The Sun newspaper for intrusion into his private life over a 15 year period.

Adam is joined by media editor Katie Razzall and home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani to discuss the significance behind the News Group Newspapers’ “full and unequivocal apology” to the Duke of Sussex.

And a Russian spy ship has been tracked by the Royal Navy operating near British waters. Adam speaks to diplomatic correspondent James Landale about the risks to undersea infrastructure and “growing Russian aggression”.

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More than a thousand LGBTQ couples across Thailand will marry today as same-sex unions become legal in the country.

The law kicked into effect on Thursday after a sustained campaign that one activist described as a "long fight full of tears”.

LGBTQ couples now have the same rights as other couples to manage assets, inherit, adopt and take decisions about their partner's medical treatment.

But activists say they are fighting for more changes because many laws are still not gender-neutral.

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The Royal Navy has been monitoring a Russian spy ship after it entered British waters earlier this week, the defence secretary has told MPs.

John Healey said the vessel, Yantar, was used for gathering intelligence and mapping the UK's critical underwater infrastructure.

He said the incident was "another example of growing Russian aggression".

Russia describes Yantar as an oceanic research vessel and it is operated by the country's Ministry of Defence.

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US President Donald Trump has said he is considering imposing a 10% tariff on imports of Chinese-made goods as soon as 1 February.

Trump said discussions with his administration were "based on the fact that they're sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada".

Trump's comments followed his threats to levy import taxes of 25% on Mexico and Canada, accusing them of allowing undocumented migrants and drugs to come into the US.

In a press conference in Washington on Tuesday, Trump also vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs.

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At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 40 injured by Israeli forces during a major operation in the Jenin area in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says.

There were several air strikes on Tuesday as a large number of troops entered the city and its refugee camp, backed by drones, helicopters and armoured bulldozers, according to Palestinian media.

Israel's prime minister said it launched an "extensive and significant" operation to "defeat terrorism" in Jenin, long seen as a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups.

It comes three days after the start of a ceasefire in Gaza and highlights the threat of more violence in the West Bank.

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BBC News Middle East Correspondent Lina Sinjab has returned to the Palestine Branch Prison in Damascus, Syria, where she was interrogated repeatedly.

Lina had to leave Syria in 2013 after she was repeatedly arrested and threatened by the regime.

She had been reporting on then President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

After the Assad regime’s fall in December, she went back to Palestine Branch Prison in Damascus where she was last investigated, looking for her files.

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The creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI, is teaming up with another US tech giant, a Japanese investment firm and an Emirati sovereign wealth fund to build $500bn (£405bn) of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the United States.

The new company, called The Stargate Project, was announced at the White House by Donald Trump who billed it "the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history."

The venture, which began before Trump took office, announced $100bn of funding was being made available immediately, with the rest to come over four years, creating an estimated 100,000 jobs.

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