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Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighbourhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 122. Hundreds of people remain missing.  At least 122 dead, at least 3,000 homes burned down in Valparaiso …

Antony Blinken  Palestinian Territories – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will kick off another Mideast crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in fighting. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October …

The second of back-to-back storms battered California on Sunday, flooding roadways and knocking out power to more than 845,000 people and prompting a rare warning for hurricane-force winds as the state braced for what could be days of heavy rains.  Nearly 846,000 customers without electricity statewide, according to poweroutage.us. The …

At least 64 people have died from forest fires raging in Chile — an increase of 13 in the past day, President Gabriel Boric said on Sunday, adding that the death toll is likely to increase further.  ‘We will have to work rigorously to find who is responsible,’ says regional …

The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.  Latest bombardment carried out by fighter jets and warships in …

The Gaza War has seen Israel claim that the high death toll among civilians is due to Hamas’s use of “human shields.” But that term has never been properly defined in the laws of armed conflict. When is a human a ‘human shield’? And does that mean they can be …

Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, Chile’s president said Saturday evening, and officials said at least 1,100 homes had been destroyed. 92 blazes in central region have burned through at least 8,000 hectares, minister says Intense forest fires …

Sixteen people were killed, among them civilians, and 25 injured in overnight U.S. airstrikes on pro-Iran targets in Iraq, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s office said on Saturday.  Iraq summons U.S. chargé d’affaires in protest over airstrikes, state media says. Sixteen people were killed and 25 injured, civilians among them, …

The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.  Strikes ‘will continue at …

Ocean temperatures are rising so dramatically that the organization that monitors threats to coral reefs worldwide has added three new alert categories.  Alert Level 5 means ‘risk of near-complete mortality’ from coral bleaching, says Coral Reef Watch. Ocean temperatures are rising so dramatically that the organization that monitors threats to …