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LOS ANGELES — If you have a bag of sunflower seeds, throw it to the sky. Teo is back. Break out three giant claps, a dazzling smile and a deafening scream. Teo is back. The Dodgers' heartbeat still pumps. The Dodgers' soul still stirs. The Dodgers are still the Dodgers. A front office that respects the team culture while listening to its fans made certain of this Friday when the Dodgers agreed to re-sign Teoscar Hernández to a three-year, $66 million contract, keeping last season's championship hero where he belongs. In the dugout, showering fellow home-run hitters with sunflower seeds. In the clubhouse, smoothing the path for Shohei Ohtani. And, of course, at the plate, delivering huge hits all summer capped by season-tilting drives in the National League Division Series and World Series. Teo is back, and your sigh is as big as his personality, and your relief is as palpable as one of his late-inning swings. Because, admit it, you were worried. You were even worse than worried. After the final bus had sped past, the final inspirational speech had been delivered, and the last of the hoarse cheers had been uttered, you barely had time to savor November's title celebration before you began waiting for the other blue shoe to drop. Teo was a free agent, and that meant this band of ring bearers could be broken up, and, oh no! The Dodgers couldn't let such a giant presence walk, could they? They weren't really going to be blinded by analytics and age and contract length and fail to sign everybody's newest favorite player, were they? In the past, they might have. In the past, there was actually little chance they would have rewarded a 32-year-old playing for his fourth team with a lucrative three-year deal based partially on intangibles. You knew all this, and you were scared, and it shaded your every perception of what had been an otherwise wildly successful offseason. Signing two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell was nice, but what about Teo? Extending October hero Tommy Edman was a boss move, but hey, where's Teo? Adding smart-swinging lefty outfielder Michael Conforto was cool, but what does this mean for Teo? Blake Treinen was brought back, and Japanese star pitcher Roki Sasaki could be coming but ... hello? Teo? All those fears were erased Friday afternoon in what is usually a time for sports teams to dump their bad news in hopes that it gets lost in the weekend. This was the opposite of that. Teo is back, and the New Year's party starts now. It turns out, while negotiations were painfully protracted, the end result was always obvious in what is pretty close to a perfect relationship between a star and a team. Hernández wanted to stay, something he had been openly expressing by the end of the championship parade. And the Dodgers, in valuing him as not only an All-Star player but a standout leader, wanted him to stay. It was all pretty simple, really, and now, for the rest of baseball, it's downright suffocating. The Dodgers don't need to do anything else this winter and already they're better than last season. By keeping their title core together while essentially adding two ace pitchers — Snell and the mound return of Ohtani — the Dodgers are a lock to win the National League West for the 12th time in 13 seasons and should be heavy favorites to become the first team to win consecutive World Series since the New York Yankees from 25 years ago. Andrew Friedman and the Dodger ownership group understands this team and this market as well as any front office in franchise history. In bringing back a guy who had 33 homers and 99 RBIs and arguably the team's exciting personality, they have continued to maintain a monster. Look at their lineup, rich with regular-season MVPs, National League Championship Series MVPs, World Series MVPs and, oh yeah, a home-run derby champion. Check out their rotation, led by four aces in Ohtani, Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Then there's the bullpen, which could be anchored by the veteran who shut down the New York Yankees for 2 1/3 innings in the World Series clincher, the retention of Treinen being a sneaky good move. If possible, Friedman has had a winter that rivaled Hernández's Game 5 division series homer for excitement. As crazy as it sounds, Friedman has worked an offseason that could come close to matching Hernández's Game 5 World Series two-run double for impact. It all became clear Friday afternoon with two words that appeared on Hernández's Instagram story. "I'm Back," he wrote. Run it back, you shouted. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Suddenly defensive Alabama looks to keep rolling against South Dakota State

Hyderabad: Three notorious criminals who are allegedly involved in a spate of robbery cases here were arrested by the Kulsumpura police on Saturday, December 28. The accused persons have been identified as Syed Abul Hasan, 32; Syed Taleb Ali, 23 and Saif Ali Mirza, 19. According to deputy commissioner of police (DCP) for south west zone G Chandra Mohan, on December 24, the trio threatened a labourer with a knife and robbed his phone and motorcycle at the 100 feet road Kulsumpura. Following a complaint by the labourer, R Krishna, a case was booked and a search operation was launched. After four days, the police finally caught Hasan, Ali and Mirza. Two motorcycles, a country-made pistol with two live bullets 11 mobile phones, two knives and a knuckle duster were seized.

Caracas, December 5, 2024 ( ) — Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez is in China on an official visit to “review and strengthen” the cooperation map established last year when the countries elevated their relationship to an Upon her arrival in Beijing on Wednesday, Rodríguez stated that the allies nations will revise cooperation agreements in “multiple strategic areas,” including politics, energy, economy, finance and technology. “We will strengthen our framework for cooperation as well as ties of complementarity and mutual development in different areas to continue solidifying a historical relationship and deep friendship that reached in 2024,” Rodríguez on social media. Rodríguez went on to add that China and Venezuela have a “shared vision” regarding a new multipolar world “where the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of the Global South are respected.” She remarked that the BRICS organization would play a key role in advancing multipolarity. On Thursday, the Venezuelan vice president met with her Chinese counterpart Han Zheng, with both officials reportedly committing to achieve “greater progress” in bilateral relations. According to the , Han said China is eager to fully implement the “all-weather strategic partnership” reached last year as well as “strengthen practical cooperation.” For her part, Rodríguez reiterated Venezuela’s respect for the one-China principle and emphasized the need to strengthen multilateral coordination to “oppose unilateral illegal sanctions, safeguard national security and development, and international fairness and justice.” In recent years, Venezuela and China have deepened their strategic political and economic ties as both governments aim to counteract Western hegemony and unilateral coercive measures. Since 2017, the Caribbean nation has faced severe hardships caused by the US-led economic blockade which has particularly targeted the crucial . In September 2023, Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Xi Jinping the countries’ relations to an “all-weather strategic partnership” and signed 31 agreements to boost collaboration in areas such as oil, scientific development, healthcare, and space exploration. The new level of bilateral partnership was considered historic with Venezuela being the first Latin American country to enter the “all-weather” category reserved by Beijing for its closest allies. The upgrade reflects China’s growing role as Venezuela’s primary trading partner in Asia, particularly in crude oil purchases. On the eve of her trip to China, Vice President Rodríguez the country’s 2025 budget proposal to the National Assembly (AN), estimated at USD $22.7 billion. The figure represents an increase of nearly 11 percent from this year’s $20.5 billion budget and nearly doubles the $11.6 billion allocated in 2023. It still stands at around a fifth of the government’s $118 billion budget for 2015. Rodríguez attributed the recent sustained increase to “consistent ” since 2021, citing an 8.5 percent GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2024 as measured by Venezuela’s Central Bank. The Caribbean nation is set for a fourth consecutive year of economic improvement, though GDP remains below 30 percent of its high mark in 2014. “This budget reflects the victorious resilience of the Venezuelan economy amid adversity and economic suffocation that have targeted our workers and production processes,” she told lawmakers on Tuesday. “In these challenging conditions, Venezuela is now one of the fastest-growing countries in Latin America.” The vice president detailed that 77.6 percent of next year’s budget will be dedicated to social investment, focusing on education, healthcare, security, science and technology, public infrastructure, and housing. The spending plan incorporates input gathered from thousands of popular assemblies held across the country. Rodríguez also highlighted that the budget includes a special fund for chosen and managed directly by the Venezuelan people through communal circuits, as well as an additional allocation for the Essequibo region. According to , tax revenues are expected to contribute $5.25 billion to the budget, financing 28 percent of total spending. Venezuelan authorities have praised tax collection, which has more than doubled year-on-year in 2024. In contrast, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA will cover 53 percent of expenditures, amounting to $10.1 billion, down from an estimated $11.9 billion this year. The remainder of the country’s annual financing will come from mining, loans, and debt issuances. On Thursday, Parliament President Jorge Rodríguez that the 2025 budget proposal had been approved by the legislature and sent to the Maduro government for its promulgation.

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Great politicians seem to have two main things in common: they pick the right time to be born and they pick the right time to leave office. Everything in between will be recast in their favour if they only get these two things right. Former German chancellor Angela Merkel recently released her memoir . She, without a doubt, picked the right time to be born. She was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell, creating a cause – an East German voice and self-determination in reunifying with the West – that impelled her into politics. She was undeniably smart, but also the right age and the right symbolic vehicle to catch chancellor Helmut Kohl’s eye and become his protegee. In just under 15 years, she became chancellor. If she’d left after one term – two at most – her greatness would never have been questioned. But after that, her legacy as a crucial advocate for East Germans in the process of unification and her historic ascent was overwritten by a series of decisions that have turned out to be disastrous for Germany, economically and geostrategically. A shadow has fallen over Anthony Albanese’s prime ministership in 2024. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen US presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton could also be said to have picked the right time to be born and, thanks to term limits in the US, also the right time to leave office. Reagan performed a necessary service in deregulating a sclerotic US economy, mired in stagflation, while presiding over the end of the Cold War. Clinton presided over a peaceful age of free trade and international co-operation. While neither was a flawless leader and the numerous mistakes they made can easily be identified, they avoided leading their nations into catastrophe. Anthony Albanese also picked the right time to be born: at the beginning of the ’60s, as the fruits of a social revolution against the rigid morality of the war generation were ripe and not yet spoiled. He was a beneficiary of the blossoming of the self-actualisation century, in which the chains of the traditional family were being rejected, to be replaced by a paternal social welfare state. As the child of a single mother, his timing was especially fortuitous; he and his mother were poor, but in highly relative terms historically. They lived in government-owned housing and his mother was entitled to (and received) a disability pension, as she was unable to work. His own university degree – nominally in political economy, mainly in ruthless campus politics – was free (to him, but of course not the taxpayer). Loading Albanese was, as it were, born into a cause: to call for more of this, which made him possible: more social solidarity delivered by the state to replace the sticky ties of family and community obligation that had been found to be unreasonably oppressive by his generation and some in the one before it. Though it wasn’t visible at the time – transformations of this kind are mostly visible only with the benefit of hindsight – Albanese was in on the ground floor of the transformation of Labor from the party of the worker to the party of the left-liberal, the party of welfare. Operating the politics of this movement, Albanese gained the respect of his colleagues and parts of the public. In retrospect, his ideal moment to leave, with this legacy at its zenith, might have been the day in 2013 when he fronted cameras to lament the self-harm playing out within the Labor Party during yet another spill of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era. Had he left then, he would have gone out channelling the disgust of Australians at the shenanigans of self-absorbed politicians, an avatar and hero of the people. Or maybe he could even have drawn it out a little longer and left a few years later, at the height of his “everyman” identity (according to The Daily Telegraph , which campaigned to “Save our Albo” in the face of a challenge to his seat from a group of further-left candidates). In either scenario, he would have been remembered as a likeable character in the soap opera of politics – good for future cameos to rally the faithful, positioned for a plum public role. Instead, he became prime minister. And the times have not suited him at all. Loading I could talk about inflation and the cost of living, misjudging the mood of the nation over the Voice referendum, the war in the Middle East and antisemitism at home. Or his approach to change, which has been deemed too incremental by some, too radical by others. I could point to the grip in which he finds himself pinioned, between the forefinger of his younger self in Green-on-the-outside, red-on-the-inside ideologist Max Chandler-Mather and the thumb of John Setka loyalists and the rebellious union movement. But none of these things are as fatal to his legacy as the luck of timing, because Albanese is a man built for an era of liberal gentility, who became PM just as the liberal era was drawing to an end. Albanese can, at least in part, blame Merkel for ending it. The post-Cold War leader of Germany, which, as the largest European economy, has an outsized role in underwriting the European Union, placed her faith in diplomacy over energy security and military deterrence. Germany and Europe are now less able to stand up against Russian strongman Vladimir Putin ’s attempt to seize Ukraine because of her miscalculations. The chief foreign affairs columnist at the Financial Times , Gideon Rachman , also implicates former US President Barack Obama for compounding Merkel’s mistakes by responding weakly or seeking to appease dictators. He concludes that “decisions taken by the two leaders – or often the decisions not taken by them – had a damaging, if delayed, impact on global stability”. Loading When even liberals like Rachman recognise that liberal heroes have made the world more dangerous, it is no wonder that voters around the world (who are usually quicker than FT columnists to sniff approaching dangers) are choosing a rougher cut of leader to champion them into the second quarter of the 21st century. Albanese will never be that. His political tradition is liberal largess, not protective menace. With the bad luck of timing hanging over him, whether he scrapes over the line at the coming election is moot. The politician he might have been remembered as has been overwritten. The question now is only whether his career is ended by his friends or his foes – with a bang, or with a long, drawn-out whimper. Parnell Palme McGuinness is managing director at campaigns firm Agenda C. She has done work for the Liberal Party and the German Greens. Get a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. Sign up for our Opinion newsletter . Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article Political leadership Anthony Albanese Angela Merkel Barack Obama Putin's Russia Vladimir Putin More... Parnell Palme McGuinness is managing director at campaigns firm Agenda C. She has done work for the Liberal Party and the German Greens. Most Viewed in Politics LoadingNoneShoppers slam Tesco as supermarket replaces Christmas treats with 'ridiculous' item

NoneHungary must go its own way, and Brusselsites will not tell Hungarian companies with whom to do business, said Istvan Hollik, MP of the Christian Democrats, in his year-end video message published on the party's Facebook page on Friday. "The year 2024 brought many challenges for Hungary: both the war and the misguided sanctions made it difficult to restart economic growth," the politician of the co-ruling Christian Democrats (KDNP) said in the video. We, Christian Democrats, believe that Hungary's success rests on peace and the preservation of our neutrality, which stems from our economic sovereignty, he stressed, adding that therefore, Hungary will continue to resist pressure from Brussels in 2025. It is not the Brusselsites who will tell Hungarian companies who they can and cannot do business with, he underlined. Hungary must go its own way, he added. "We would like Hungary to become a meeting point for Eastern and Western technologies, as this is how the greatest economic growth can be achieved, argued Istvan Hollik. To this end, Hungarian small and medium-sized businesses will receive special attention and support next year through the Demjan Sandor program, he pointed out. We have agreed with employers and employees on a three-year wage increase so that all Hungarian workers can benefit from economic growth, he said, highlighting that the goal is to make the average wage of one million forints a reality in Hungary. The year 2025 will bring challenges, but we can face the new year full of hope, the politician from the co-ruling party summed up. One thing is certain: the Christian Democratic People's Party will continue to work for Hungary and the Hungarian people in 2025, Istvan Hollik said in conclusion. A téma legfrissebb hírei Hungary's EU Affairs Minister: Let's Make Europe Great Together! The adoption of the Budapest Declaration was one of the greatest successes of Hungary's EU presidency. Terrorists and Extremists Lurk Amid Migrants Fear of migrants is palpable in the Balkans. Peacetime Budget If all goes well, domestic consumption can pick up again, people will finally stop preparing for the worst and everyone can take another step forward. Hungary's Government Makes Huge Efforts to Spend 2.1 Percent of GDP on Defense Hungary is engaged in the second most dynamic military development in Europe. Veszélyes útszakaszra figyelmeztetnek Tolna vármegyében Petíciót indít Brüsszel magyarellenes politikája miatt a Nemzeti Ellenállás Mozgalom Rossz hírünk van: ezek a csillagjegyek lesznek 2025 elejének nagy vesztesei Magyarra még nem mondtak ilyet: ő az új Cristiano Ronaldo Így mutatja meg a gyűrűsujjad, hogy mennyire vagy rabja az alkoholnak Amikor a TEK-es azon aggódik, hogy jól vagy-e Bayer Zsolt: Ki miért felelős ma? 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Azbej Tristan: Syrian Christians Can Count on Hungary The state secretary in charge of programs assisting persecuted Christians stressed that Hungary will continue to stand by Christians in the Middle East. Potential Draftees Seized for Zelensky's War, Even at Christmas In Zelensky’s so-called “model democracy,” the brutal abductions of potential darftees from the streets have continued even during the holidays. A „kicsi” népszerűbb, mint Donald Trump. Feltámad a Vészhelyzet és érkezik az új Trónok harca-előzménysorozat az HBO-n Az elmúlt évek legizgalmasabb és legváltozatosabb tartalomkínálatával készül 2025-re a Warner Bros. Discovery streamingplatformja, a Max. Kína légiereje bemutatta hatodik generációs vadászgépét + videó Kína újabb mérföldkőhöz érkezett a légitechnológiai fejlesztések terén. A „vénember” továbbjutott, óriási csata a darts-vb-n Luke Humphries simán, Gerwyn Price óriási csata után jutott tovább a darts-világbajnokságon. 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