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It Ends With Us. The documents presented in court detail a crisis management strategy, including discussions about manipulating public opinion using references to Taylor Swift and Hailey Bieber. Lively claims the emotional toll has been severe, affecting her mental health and her family, including her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, and their four children.

According to the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Maheshwar Nag, a truck ferrying around 45 people met with the mishap near village Chandameta under Darbha police station limits in Jagdalpur. After learning about the mishap, CRPF rushed to the spot and carried out rescue exercises, said the Police.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit on Saturday slammed the Aam Admi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal after Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to prosecute him in the excise policy case. Expressing his surprise over what he felt was a delayed action, Sandeep Dikshit told ANI, «I wonder why it took so many days for the LG to give permission. They (Delhi ministers) should have been in jail by now....» «The liquor scam has nothing to do with the elections. The probe has been going on for 2-3 years. If the facts are believed to be correct, the Delhi government has suffered huge losses, and the excise policy has only benefited private contractors from South India...,» he said.

The alleged attack Friday evening in Magdeburg, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, killed a 9-year-old and four adults and injured 41 people badly enough that authorities warned the death toll could rise. Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.

Tel Aviv, Israel, early Saturday after air defenses failed to intercept it, the latest in an increasing barrage of Houthi attacks. At least 16 people were lightly wounded by shattered glass in nearby buildings, according to Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency service. It was at least the sixth such attack over the past month. The attack set off air-raid sirens across central Israel ordering hundreds of thousands of residents to enter reinforced bomb shelters. The missile landed in a playground in Tel Aviv in the middle of the night.

Although Iran has one of the biggest supplies of natural gas and crude oil in the world, it is in a full-blown energy crisis that can be attributed to years of sanctions, mismanagement, aging infrastructure, wasteful consumption — and targeted attacks by Israel. «We are facing very dire imbalances in gas, electricity, energy, water, money and environment,» said President Masoud Pezeshkian in a live televised address to the nation this month.

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One example of togetherness: a Chicanukah party hosted Thursday evening by several Jewish organizations in Houston, bringing together members of the city’s Latino and Jewish communities for a “cross cultural holiday celebration." The venue: Houston’s Holocaust museum. The food on offer was a blend of the two cultures — for example a latke bar featuring guacamole, chili con queso and pico de gallo, as well as applesauce and sour cream. The doughnut-like pastries were sufganiyot — a Hanukkah specialty — and buñuelos, And the mariachi band took a crack at playing the Jewish folk song “Hava Nagila.”

However, for many of the city's citizens, all of that craziness has now vanished and transformed into sheer grief. Others are experiencing high levels of tension, and some are wondering if they will be better protected in the future. It is now dark in the Christmas market. It has been cordoned off completely. There is a lot of anger regarding security, and there is a lot of grief among many people right now.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat wants the saffron family to become forward looking and solution oriented rather than hyping the sensitive issues of temple and mosque for political purposes, some Sangh functionaries told ET. The functionaries feel that Bhagwat's latest remarks expressing concern over the resurgence of temple-mosque disputes and advising people against raking up such issues are meant to emphasise the Sangh's belief in coexistence of various communities within India as their DNA is the same. «After Ram temple judgement Mohan ji had made it clear RSS has no plans to lead any new movements similar to the Ram temple in future. And he has been maintaining that,» a senior Sangh functionary told ET.

Northeast India is the biggest work done in the last 10 years, Union home minister Amit Shah claimed on Saturday, citing various peace accords and surrendering of militant outfits in the region. In the last 10 years, Prime minister Narendra Modi has brought Northeast India in focus not only nationally but internationally, Shah said at the 72nd plenary session of the Northeastern Council (NEC) in Agartala. «Northeast India, for a long time, remained only in the speeches from New Delhi,» he said. But tremendous infrastructure development under the Modi government has made the region easily accessible and «lessened the distance of hearts among the people of Northeast India and New Delhi,» he said.

Delhi Police Crime Branch will likely record the statements of two hospitalised MPs, who are admitted to RML hospital, on December 23, sources said on Saturday. Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput got injured on Thursday following a scuffle between the opposition and ruling BJP MPs on the premises of the Parliament. On Thursday, an FIR was registered against Rahul Gandhi at Parliament Street Police Station following a BJP's complaint. Gandhi was accused of physical assault and incitement.

TikTok for at least a year starting at the beginning of 2025. During a meeting in Tirana with Albanian teachers, parents and psychologists Rama said that «TikTok is the thug of the neighbourhood.» «We are going to chase this thug out of our neighbourhood for one year,» Rama said.

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The report said that according to the five-member commission headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, there was a «persistent suggestion in law enforcement circles» that some Bangladeshi prisoners might still be languishing in Indian jails. «We recommend the Ministries of Foreign and Home to extend their best efforts to identify any Bangladeshi citizens who may still remain incarcerated in India. It is beyond the jurisdiction of the commission to follow this trail outside Bangladesh,» the commission said.

Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking review of an order granting bail to Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji in a money laundering case related to a cash-for-jobs scam. A bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih also dismissed a prayer for conducting open hearing on the review petition. «Application seeking oral hearing of the review petition is rejected. The review petition seeks review of judgment and order dated September 26, 2024. Having gone through the review petition and the connected papers, we do not find any ground to review the order sought to be reviewed. There is no error apparent on the face of the record,» the bench said in its order passed on December 17, and uploaded on the apex court website on Saturday. The bench noted that an application for recall of the same order is pending and is being heard by the court.

SpaDeX mission has been integrated and moved to the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, ISRO said on Saturday. This mission is intended to develop and demonstrate a technology needed to dock and undock spacecraft in space, apart from other things. «The launch vehicle has been integrated and now moved to the First Launch Pad, for further integration of satellites and launch preparations,» ISRO said in a post on the social media X. SpaDeX mission is a cost-effective technology demonstrator mission for the demonstration of 'in-space docking' using two small spacecraft launched by PSLV, ISRO said in an explainer on the subject.

UP's Minister of State (Independent Charge) Forest and Environment, Zoological Garden, Climate Change Arun Kumar Saxena credited Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the increase in the green cover with his directions to all stakeholders to plant trees. «And because of the collective efforts, we got positive and good results. We ranked second in the country in increasing the combined forest and tree cover, which is a significant achievement. Only Chhattisgarh is ahead of us,» Saxena told reporters.

As the first programme of his visit to Kuwait, Modi visited a labour camp in Mina Abdullah area of Kuwait with a workforce of around 1,500 Indian nationals. He interacted with a cross-section of Indian workers from different states of India, enquired about their well-being, also sat at a table with some of them at the Gulf Spic Labour Camp when snacks served.

However, for those who need last-minute items or essential services, understanding what’s open and closed can be crucial. Here’s an overview of Christmas Day 2024, covering everything from federal holidays to store hours and garbage pickups.