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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Ukrainian president, Volodymira Sunlinsky, is in Florida. He arrived there late yesterday for today's meeting with President Trump and Mara Lago. The planned end, the war in Ukraine will be on the table. Major differences remain on crucial issues. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is next. He's on his way to the U.S. to meet with President Trump in Florida. He's planning to raise Israel's concerns about Iran, his Blah, and Hamas.

and Pierce Michelle Kellerman reports. Trump's 20-point peace plan for Gaza is still in phase one. The president has yet to name his so-called Board of Peace for Gaza, and there's still no international force there. Israel has set up a yellow line in the territory controlling one side and continuing to carry out strikes on the other. Netanyahu has said the peace plan can't move to the next phase until Hamas returns the body of the last Israeli hostage.

The Hamas, as everyone who knew where that body was, has been killed. Gaza isn't the only thing on Netanyahu's agenda. Israeli officials say that Iran is building up its arsenal of ballistic missiles months after Trump ordered massive strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Jerusalem. French film icon Brigitte Bardot has died. Bardot's Animal Rights Foundation says she died at her home in southern France but did not provide a college. She was 91. Bardo was an international sex symbol in 1950s and 60, starring in dozens of

films. Here she is on the Ed Sullivan Show, promoting her film A Very Private Affair. Don't you think that it will be very difficult for you to retire and have nothing to do as you know? No, it's very easy for me. How? Because it's difficult for me to work. Bordeaux retired from acting in 1973, 20 years after her first. film. She wrote in her autobiography that reviews of her acting and misogynistic views got to her. Another winter storm system forecast to bring more freezing temperatures and snow to parts of the Midwest and Northeast. MPR's Matt Bloom reports it may also cause more travel headaches. Airlines have delayed or canceled more than a thousand flights due to weather this weekend in the

busy post-Christmas travel rush and more could be in store. The next winter system named Ezra is set to bring strong winds and snow to the Great Lakes region and Upper Midwest starting tonight. Impacts could stretch farther south and bring severe thunderstorms to the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. The weather is expected to bring more ice and snow to parts of the Upper Northeast into Monday. Following the storm, a massive cold air is expected to send temperatures falling in much of the eastern and southern U.S. ahead of the New Year's holiday. Matt Bloom and PR News. And from Washington, you're listening to NPR News. And Mars military rulers say the general election that got underway today will bring political stability.

The son of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung Song Suu Kyi says the election is a sham. Kim Err spoke to the BBC, saying the vote is aimed at furthering the military's business relationship with countries including China, Russia, and India. This sort of legitimacy that the elections kind of give them a gloss over will help them to continue to do so and feel like they're somehow being above board about all of this. But we all know that's not true. The election is the first since the 2021 coup that ousted Suu Kyi, who remains into tension, two more rounds of voting are to be held before final results are announced. Voters in the West African nation of Guinea are also casting ballots for the first time. since a coup four years ago. Michael Koloki has more. Nine candidates are on the ballot, including Mamadi Dumbuya, head of the country's military

junta that seized power in a 2021 coup. His main challenger, Yarobaldi, served as education minister in the country's previous government. Two prominent opposition leaders were disqualified from the elections. The vote takes place amid concerns about economic challenges facing the country, with the UN saying, more than how. of Guinea's population face record levels of poverty. Critics of the country's military government have accused it of clamping down on political opposition and suppressing civil rights. For NPR News, I'm Michael Koloki in Nairobi. And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your

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