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Prince Harry has been issued a "full and unequivocal apology" from Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Sun newspaper, for "serious intrusion" into his private life.

It settles a long-running legal battle between the prince and the newspaper group, after eleventh-hour negotiations.

The Sun also apologised for serious intrusion into the private life of his late mother, Princess Diana, and agreed to pay substantial damages.

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Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters serving jail sentences for taking part in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 have been freed, after the new President issued 1,500 pardons.

Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a riot following his false claims that the 2020 presidential election had been rigged against him. Five people died, including a police officer and many more were injured.

Trump's sweeping pardon went further than expected by including those convicted of violence and drew condemnation from police and US lawmakers including some of the president's fellow Republicans. The blanket pardon effectively freed all the rioters and erased the work of the largest criminal investigation in US history.

Fourteen people convicted of some of the most serious crimes had their sentences commuted, meaning their offences will remain on the record but they will still be released from prison.

Leaders of the riots celebrated Mr Trump’s decision. Among them were Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and self-proclaimed "QAnon shaman" Jake Angeli-Chansley. They have long described the sentences handed out to people they call "J6 hostages" and "political prisoners" as being politically motivated and harsh.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Emma Vardy.

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There are several diplomatic challenges looming for the UK government in its engagement with the new administration, including proposed trade tariffs and growing tensions over the UK's proposed Chagos Islands deal.

Sir Keir Starmer will visit Washington for talks with Donald Trump within weeks, the foreign secretary has suggested.

President-elect Donald Trump will want to do a good deal with the UK, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has insisted.

The prime minister has said he believes the "special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States will continue to flourish" under Trump.

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At least 66 people have been killed in a fire that engulfed a popular Turkish ski resort hotel, leaving some to jump out of windows.

The fire broke out at the 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there, taking 12 hours to be put out.

Four people have been arrested, including the owner, the justice minister says, as prosecutors had been allocated to investigate the blaze.

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Donald Trump’s first day as the US president is underway and began with a national prayer service at Washington National Cathedral.

The newly confirmed Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, became the first of the cabinet nominees to take his oath of office in a ceremony overseen by the vice president.

Rubio delivered a speech at the state department, thanking his family for their support, saying “it is an honour to lead this agency”.

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Today, we look at the prime minister’s pledge to fight “the changing face of terrorism” in light of Britain facing a “new and dangerous threat” from extreme violence.

In an address from Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer announced a public inquiry into the state failure that allowed Axel Rudakubana to fatally stab three young girls in Southport last summer.

Plus we discuss President Trump’s first actions back in the White House, including the pardoning of nearly 1,600 people in connection with the Capitol riots on 6th of January 2021, with Caitriona Perry, Chief Presenter for BBC News.

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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said Europe needs to step up and learn how to take care of itself, in an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, an international organisation that shapes global agendas.

Mr Zelensky said everyone was now waiting to see what President Trump would do next, but no one was looking to Europe.

Ukraine's leader insisted Europe needed a united security and defence policy, and should be willing to increase spending to guarantee its own security from emerging threats.

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Humanitarian volunteers in Sudan say sixteen civilians have been killed after paramilitary forces shelled a displacement camp close to El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.

The army and paramilitary forces have been accused of indiscriminately bombing civilians and medical facilities, attacking residential areas and using mass starvation as a weapon of war.

This comes more than a week after the eastern city of Wad Madani was recaptured by the army from its rival, the Rapid Support Forces or RSF.

Sudan's troops and RSF militia have been fighting for control of Sudan for close to two years, affecting many regions and cities who have limited international aid.

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The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been held for a third day.

Hamas has confirmed it’ll release the next Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian’s held by Israel.

The UN said more than 900 aid trucks had entered the Gaza strip on Monday.

US President Donald Trump expressed doubt that the truce will hold through all three phases and one of his executive orders reverse sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

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The UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said the UK faces a "new threat" after the Southport murders, and that "terrorism has changed".

This comes after Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to murdering three girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last year.

Starmer said the threat comes from "extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms" and that the state's failure to prevent Rudakubana's murders "leaps off the page".

After the violent events in Southport, riots erupted across the UK, with some social media posts wrongly claiming that Rudakubana, who was born in Cardiff, was actually an asylum seeker.

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