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A huge, fast-moving and rapidly growing wildfire in northern California is damaging homes and has forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate as firefighters battle gusty winds and perilously dry conditions, authorities have said. Fueled by a crushing heatwave, the so-called Park Fire -- the most intense wildfire to hit the state this summer -- has rapidly devoured nearly 240,000 acres (97,000 hectares) as of Friday night and is continuing to gain strength. IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
The United States says that Russia's drone strikes on Ukraine's Danube infrastructure show that President Vladimir Putin does not care about food supply for the developing world. "It is unacceptable. Putin simply does not care about global food security," US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters during a press briefing. SOUNDBITE
Images of San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in intensive care for heart problems, according to a member of his entourage. Italian news agency Ansa says he was admitted early Wednesday and that his current condition is "stable". IMAGES
À la fin des années 1990, dans l'état d'Orissa, Manav, un journaliste indien, est chargé d'enquêter sur Graham Staines, un missionnaire australien soupçonné d'acheter la conversion des pauvres au christianisme.
Police cars are near the scene where a bus crashed into a day care center in a Montreal suburb, leaving eight people seriously injured, including children, according to authorities. IMAGES