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Oppenheimer was the big winner at the Golden Globes - the film about the creation of the atomic bomb won 5 awards.
Succession was the TV winner of the night - in the first awards after a major shake up of the voting panel.
John Bevir (Beaver) reports.
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In a surprise announcement, the EU Council President has said he's running to be an MEP.
Charles Michel has said he'll step down from his current role, if he's successful in June and elected to the European Parliament.
But there are concerns about his successor - as Ishan Garg reports.
Government ministers in the UK are meeting to discuss what's been called the 'most widespread miscarriage of justice' in British history.
More than 700 Post Office branch managers were wrongly convicted of financial crimes due to faulty accounting software. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the government, which wholly owns the Post Office, is reviewing the options to help victims of the scandal.
Those convicted, some of whom were jailed, were found guilty of charges including fraud, theft and false accounting due to problems with a nationally implemented piece of software first introduced in 1999.
A TV drama that aired last week has brought the subject back into the spotlight.
Many of those involved are still fighting to clear their names and have not received full compensation. Conservative peer Lord Arbuthnot wants justice for victims.
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Megumi Lim has more from Kyiv
Air Force authorities in Nigeria say they have killed at least 12 terrorists in Borno state, northeast of the country.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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CUE: China says the head of a foreign consulting company was allegedly spying for the UK's M-I-Six intelligence agency. It says the man stole state secrets while visiting China under the cover of his job.
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In China, the highly indebted property company Evergrande says a director of its electric vehicle business has been detained on suspicion of criminal activity. Shares in the Evergrande New Energy Vehicle group were suspended for several hours in Hong Kong until the announcement was made. Here's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong.
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The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next month over whether Donald Trump should be allowed on the ballot in the state of Colorado.
The outcome will have a major impact on the upcoming presidential election.
Ira Spitzer has more.
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US President Joe Biden says his top rival for the White House, Donald Trump, poses an existential threat to the country.
In a speech on Friday, Mr Biden warned that "democracy is on the ballot" this year and that if Trump wins the vote, he could become "a dictator on day one."
The address, at a historic Revolutionary War site, marked three years since the deadly January 6th assault on the United States Capitol, when a mob of supporters of then-President Trump stormed Congress in an effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Our Washington correspondent Benji Hyer reports.
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