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Hughes Fire sets thousands of acres ablaze prompting more evacuations: See map
The bushfire started northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and spread from Los Angeles County to Ventura County and prompted evacuations.
AFP
Palestinian official says hundreds leave Jenin as Israel presses raid
A Palestinian official said hundreds of people began leaving their homes in a flashpoint area of the West Bank on Thursday as Israeli forces pressed a deadly operation there.Israeli forces have also detained several Palestinians from the Jenin area, with an AFP photographer seeing a row of blindfolded men in white jumpsuits being transported out of the West Bank.
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Mayotte's students are returning to school amid cyclone devastation
Students in the French territory of Mayotte are preparing to return to school on Monday, just over six weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the islands off Africa in nearly a century laid waste to entire neighborhoods and villages and left widespread devastation in its wake. It remains unclear how many students will have a table and chair to sit at when they head back to learning. At the Lycée de Petite Terre high school in the town of Pamandzi, locals and firefighters are busy working to consolidate the framework of some of the main buildings, covering the gaping holes in the roofs with clear tarpaulin.
Reuters
Germany working hard to deport more criminals to Afghanistan, says interior minister
Germany is working intensively to deport more criminals to Afghanistan, said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in Berlin on Thursday, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for a deadly knife attack. The interior minister also took aim at the EU's Dublin rules, under which someone's asylum application has to be processed in their first country of arrival. The suspected attacker in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg had come to Germany via Bulgaria.
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The Latest: California Republicans uneasy over Trump’s threat to condition wildfire aid
President Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, asserting unprecedented executive power and daring anyone to stop him. The response from the Kremlin came Thursday after the US president threatened Moscow with further sanctions if an agreement isn’t reached to end the fighting in Ukraine. In a post to his Truth Social site on Wednesday, Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “settle now and stop this ridiculous war.”
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Tips on overcoming the loss of cherished, personal belongings in disasters
Losing important sentimental belongings — those items that represented who you are — can be traumatic for those who go through disasters that destroy homes. Grief can be hard on the body, says Mary-Frances O’Connor, a psychology professor at the University of Arizona and author of “The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing.” “Our body is reacting to not having habits, to uncertainty,” O'Connor says.
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How to cope when disasters strip away photos, heirlooms and other pieces of the past
The hand-knit Christmas stockings. When disasters strike, these artifacts of your own rich history might be the toughest belongings to lose. “It still hits me now — a picture of my dad that my grandmother painted, which was hanging on the wall by the piano," says Martha Tecca, whose house in Lyme, New Hampshire, burned to the ground 10 years ago.
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Man shoots 7 police officers called to 'suicide in progress' in San Antonio
At least seven police officers were shot during an hourslong armed standoff after responding to a "suicide in progress" call in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday night.
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Humanoid robots may upend economy, warns Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini
Noted economist and NYU professor Nouriel Roubini sounded the alarm on the impact of AI on the jobs market.
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For the first time in months, there's hope and joy in Israel and Gaza
On the first full day of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, 3 Israeli hostages and 90 Palestinian prisoners are back with their loved ones.
AFP
UK to make case to Trump against whisky tariff: finance minister
Britain will make the case to US President Donald Trump that Scotch whisky and other goods should be spared from any tariffs by the new administration, UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said Thursday."We're not part of the problem that President Trump and the new administration are trying to address and we'll make that case," she said.
CNN
International Criminal Court seeks warrants for Taliban leaders for gender-based crimes
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group continues to crack down on women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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UK watchdog targets Apple, Google mobile ecosystems with new digital market powers
Google's Android and Apple's iOS are facing fresh scrutiny from Britain's competition watchdog, which announced investigations Thursday targeting the two tech giants' mobile phone ecosystems under new powers to crack down on digital market abuses. The Competition and Markets Authority said it launched separate investigations to determine whether the mobile ecosystems controlled by Apple and Google should be given “strategic market status” that would mandate changes in the companies' practices.
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Police in Hungary investigate bomb threats affecting over 240 schools
Police in Hungary said Thursday they were investigating bomb threats that were sent to more than 240 schools across the country, resulting in classes being cancelled at some schools. No explosives or explosive devices were found in the buildings inspected so far, police added. Gergely Gulyás, chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said that “education in most schools in the country proceeds smoothly,” and that school administrators could decide for themselves whether to send students home.
AFP
After Musk gesture, activists project 'Heil' on Tesla plant
Political activists in Germany said Thursday they had projected an image of Elon Musk's infamous raised-arm salute and the word "Heil" onto the outside of his Tesla plant.The word "heil" is seen projected onto the factory near Berlin in the font of the automaker's logo, to spell the message "Heil Tesla", a reference to the Nazi greeting that honoured Adolf Hitler.
CNN
Trump is imposing MAGA rule on the government hour-by-hour
President Donald Trump is acting on his campaign promises at the fastest clip in modern memory — sending almost hourly shockwaves through the government, the legal system, the science community and around the world.
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Screen breaks and the right desk setup offer relief from work-related eye strain
The trouble started every day at around 3 p.m., after Cathy Higgins had spent five or six hours staring at an array of computer screens at her desk. “My vision was so blurry, I couldn’t even see what was on the screen, and I was squinting so much that I could not function,” Higgins said. When her eyesight got bad, Higgins walked around and spoke with members of her staff.
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Trump says China controls the Panama Canal — but here’s how it really works
Experts dispute President Donald Trump’s claims that the Panama Canal is controlled by China and overcharging U.S. ships.
AFP
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Taliban leaders over persecution of women
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity.Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to suspect that Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani "bear criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds".
CNN
Columbia University ‘expediting’ investigation into Israeli history class disruption
The Ivy League university, an epicenter for protests last year, says it is “expediting” its investigation into a group who disrupted a class on Israeli history Tuesday.

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