US Vice President Mike Pence will attend president-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, a senior administration official said on Saturday.
President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that he would not attend the inauguration of his successor on January 20 - one of the two tweets Twitter cited as inculpatory evidence for banning him from the platform.
With the 45th US president deprived of his favourite mode of communication, US Democrats were gearing up on Saturday to imply the coup de grace - his impeachment.
The charge of "incitement of insurrection" is set to be introduced by House Democrats on Monday, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would move forward with impeachment if Mr Trump did not resign immediately.
They accuse him of encouraging a riot in Congress in which five people died.
President-elect Joe Biden said impeachment was for Congress to decide but said he had thought "for a long time President Trump was not fit to hold the job".
Despite there being only two weeks before Mr Trump is due to leave the White House, there are also those within the Republican Party who want to see him gone sooner.
Lisa Murkowski, Republican senator for Alaska, also told the Anchorage Daily News that Mr Trump "needs to get out".
The US Justice Department does not plan to seek incitement charges against the president or any of the others who spoke at a rally in Washington just before protesters began Wednesday's violent siege, ABC reported.
Fifty-five of the insurrectionists were charged by the department on Friday, however, including Richard Barnett who broke into Ms Pelosi's office and posed for pictures with his feet on her desk.
Some Democrats suggested that Mr Trump and others should potentially face criminal charges over the fatal riot.
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By separating the graphite fragments repeatedly, they managed to create flakes that were just one atom thick. Their experiment led to graphene being isolated for the very first time.
In 2010, Geim and Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Sheikh Zayed's poem
When it is unveiled at Abu Dhabi Art, the Standing Tall exhibition will appear as an interplay of poetry and art. The 100 scarves are 100 fragments surrounding five, figurative, female sculptures, and both sculptures and scarves are hand-embroidered by a group of refugee women artisans, who used the Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery art of tatreez. Fragments of Sheikh Zayed’s poem Your Love is Ruling My Heart, written in Arabic as a love poem to his nation, are embroidered onto both the sculptures and the scarves. Here is the English translation.
Your love is ruling over my heart
Your love is ruling over my heart, even a mountain can’t bear all of it
Woe for my heart of such a love, if it befell it and made it its home
You came on me like a gleaming sun, you are the cure for my soul of its sickness
Be lenient on me, oh tender one, and have mercy on who because of you is in ruins
You are like the Ajeed Al-reem [leader of the gazelle herd] for my country, the source of all of its knowledge
You waddle even when you stand still, with feet white like the blooming of the dates of the palm
Oh, who wishes to deprive me of sleep, the night has ended and I still have not seen you
You are the cure for my sickness and my support, you dried my throat up let me go and damp it
Help me, oh children of mine, for in his love my life will pass me by.
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Two-step truce
The UN-brokered ceasefire deal for Hodeidah will be implemented in two stages, with the first to be completed before the New Year begins, according to the Arab Coalition supporting the Yemeni government.
By midnight on December 31, the Houthi rebels will have to withdraw from the ports of Hodeidah, Ras Issa and Al Saqef, coalition officials told The National.
The second stage will be the complete withdrawal of all pro-government forces and rebels from Hodeidah city, to be completed by midnight on January 7.
The process is to be overseen by a Redeployment Co-ordination Committee (RCC) comprising UN monitors and representatives of the government and the rebels.
The agreement also calls the deployment of UN-supervised neutral forces in the city and the establishment of humanitarian corridors to ensure distribution of aid across the country.
Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
