The Cameron Peak wildfire has become the largest fire in state history, burning over 200,000 acres.
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The mosque, which shared videos condemning Samuel Paty before his killing, must shut for six months.
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Peter Madsen was jailed for life in 2018 for murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
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The oil giant distances itself from the President’s “hypothetical” funds-for-contracts phone call.
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The New Yorker magazine suspends Jeffrey Toobin who apologises for “an embarrassingly stupid mistake”.
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Australia to join India, US, Japan in large naval exercises
Australia will join India, the United States and Japan in next month’s Malabar naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, in a move that is expected to strengthen the military relationship between the four democracies amid increased tensions with China.
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The UK government has signed a contract for the first human challenge studies for the novel coronavirus, in which healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with the virus in a controlled setting, and some receive an experimental vaccine.
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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered another large cache of unopened sarcophagi in Saqqara, adding to the trove of almost 60 coffins recently recovered from the ancient necropolis.
Read More »France teacher attack: Four pupils held over beheading
In all, 15 people are now in custody after the murder of teacher Samuel Paty near Paris.
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