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What’s the difference between Trump’s inauguration speeches?
This is President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, but are the changes he wants to make in the next four years any different from 2017?
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What do US senators make of Trump’s first day?
Donald Trump is about to meet with top Republicans, and pledged a major announcement on infrastructure – no word of that yet.
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Inside HMP Downview: one of 12 women’s prisons in England & Wales
Criminal justice experts brought together by the government are drawing up a new strategy to cut the number of women being sent to prison – as figures show that two thirds of female prisoners say they’ve been victims of domestic violence.
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Turkey: At least 76 people killed after huge hotel fire
At least 76 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after a large fire ripped through a ski resort hotel in Turkey.
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Debate: Will Trump’s executive action work?
We spoke to Navin Nayak who was director of opinion research for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign; and the Republican strategist Kristin Davison.
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Trump pledges to ‘take back’ Panama Canal – but is it bluster?
Among Mr Trump’s immediate pledges – taking the Panama Canal back under US control, after alleging China is operating the canal and accusing Panama of charging the US too much to use it.
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in occupied West Bank
With a ceasefire holding in Gaza, violence has flared in the occupied West Bank.
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Europe needs to work with US ‘without giving up values’ – expert
We spoke to Dr Comfort Ero, President of the International Crisis Group, and began by asking whether after a ceasefire was agreed in Gaza – could Donald Trump bring peace to Ukraine.
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Davos: Zelenskyy urges leaders to bolster military spending
European leaders have begun their meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos in the shadow of Mr Trump’s first full day in office – and they started with a robust defence of action on climate change.
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Starmer: Southport attack inquiry will answer ‘grave questions’
The Prime Minister says he will change the law to make sure that lone killers with “extreme individualised violence” face terror charges – after Axel Rudakubana murdered three young girls in Southport.
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Trump pardons 1,500 people involved in January 6th riots
The former leader of the extremist Proud Boys group and the founder of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers – have been released from prison as part of President Trump’s sweeping clemency for those convicted over the violent January 6th attack on Capitol Hill.
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Trump second term begins with litany of executive orders
From America’s southern border to the Panama Canal – from the UN’s health agency to electric car makers – welcome to the new age of uncertainty.
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Could Trump’s executive orders totally change America?
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States of America, he signed executive orders to take the US out of the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Accords – then around 1,500 January 6 rioters were freed; a national emergency at the US-Mexico border was declared, he made the designation of two genders an official government policy and the TikTok ban was paused – and that’s before he made off-hand comments on whether the fragile ceasefire in Gaza will last.
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FactCheck: Trump’s birthright citizenship ban explained
In order for Trump’s executive order to be upheld, the US supreme court would have to overturn a century of legal precedent.
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Labour row back on key hospitals pledge made by Conservatives
While the world was watching Donald Trump’s inauguration, the UK government took the opportunity to row back on a key health pledge made by the Conservatives.