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President-elect Donald Trump dances with The Village People at a rally ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration. Picture: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

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An image taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a smoke plume rising from explosions above destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

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US President Joe Biden's failure to provide Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky with vital military equipment like Himars missiles, advanced tanks and warplanes quickly enough has seen the conflict drag on for too long, testing American taxpayers' patience (Picture: Samuel Corum)

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Keir Starmer attends the second day of the G20 Summit in Rio De Janeiro yesterday (Picture: Saul Loeb/ POOL / AFP)

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Russian president Vladimir Putin has revised his country’s nuclear doctrine. Picture: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pose for a group photo at an event concerning the recovery and reconstruction of Ukrainian. PIC: Leon Neal/PA Wire

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Joe Biden welcomed US President-elect Donald Trump to the White House in a traditional meeting to symbolise the peaceful transfer of power (Picture: Alex Wong)

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Donald Trump addresses supporters in Florida after his projected election win.

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Donald Trump arrives on stage with his wife Melania and their son Barron.

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The polls are tightening in the election contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Picture: Chris duMond/Getty

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People climb on the debris of an Iranian missile intercepted by Israel, near Arad, southern Israel, on 2 October

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A supporter of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump shows his allegiance outside a campaign rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year (Picture: Giorgio Viera)

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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Harry Reid International Airport to board a plane after a campaign trip. Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

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People watch the ABC News presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at a debate watch party (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich, Radio Free Europe journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, and former US Marine Paul Whelan pose with an American flag in Ankara airport after being freed in a prisoner swap between Russia and the West (Picture US Government/Getty Images)

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US Vice President Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump according to the poll

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Sir Keir Starmer visits Baltic Street Food Hub and Adventure Playground in Glasgow to highlight the cost of living crisis in January, but reader isn't convinced the now Prime Minister cares about worse-off families (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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US president Joe Biden ends White House re-election bid

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Former US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Butler Farm Show in Pennsylvania shortly before he was shot and wounded (Picture: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

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Republican candidate Donald Trump with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents following an assassination attempt at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. PIC: Rebecca Droke /AFP/Getty Images

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Alan Cumming taking a selfie with Kirsty Wark as she presented her last BBC Newsnight

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US President Joe Biden needs to realise he cannot stand for another term (Picture: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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Potholes are a regular source of complaint for drivers on Scotland's roads (Picture: John Devlin)

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (left) meeting President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, for a bilateral meeting at a hotel in Washington DC, US, ahead of the Nato summit.

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First Minister John Swinney yesterday after the SNP's general election humiliation (Picture: Michael Boyd/Getty Images)

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The Exorcist House, Washington DC, where film tourism is a big draw. Pic: Graham Falk

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A protest against the National Rally party in France, where attempts are being made to form a united front against the far-right (Picture: Laure Boyer/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

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The CNN presidential debate (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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The sun shines behind the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer, France. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on Friday (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Donald Trump tries to turn his guilty verdict into campaign fuel

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Rescue workers wheel Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured, to a hospital in the town of Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia. Photo: Jan Kroslak/TASR via AP

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David Cameron on tour in Uzbekistan. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

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Marijuana is set to be downgraded to a less dangerous drug by the US.

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A boy sits atop a concrete barrier in al-Zahra in the central Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

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