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14-year-old held with gun at Georgia's Apalachee high school after shooting

The Barrow County Sheriff's Office said school resource officers arrested the boy without incident Wednesday afternoon

Man carrying machete, knives held at US Capitol ahead of Trump visit

The machete was detected by an X-ray machine at the entrance to the visitor centre, according to a statement released by Capitol Police

UAE launches education campaign in Gaza under Operation Chivalrous Knight 3

The campaign includes sending school bags and educational supplies to children

Antony Blinken rejects a Trump Greenland grab as 'not going to happen'

In a free-form news conference in Florida on Tuesday, Trump called for the US to absorb Canada and declined to rule out using military force to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland

Biden admin rushes to finish cybersecurity order after China hacks

Among the measures, it directs the government to implement "strong identity authentication and encryption" across communications, according to an undated draft

AstraZeneca and Merck drugs set to shake up treatment of liver cancer

Two late-stage studies published Wednesday in The Lancet show that Astra's Imfinzi and Merck's Keytruda delayed the progress of liver cancer when combined with other drugs and a local treatment

Morgan Stanley plans to hire more Asia wealth relationship managers

The firm's 140 relationship managers in the region could grow to 200 over the next few years, said Vincent Chui, head of wealth management for Asia Pacific

US troops need to stay in Syria to counter Islamic State: Defence secy

According to estimates, there are as many as 8,000-10,000 IS fighters in the camps, and at least 2,000 of them are considered to be very dangerous

Amid concerns, WHO official says HMPV virus 'expected during winter'

WHO official said that the pathogens are known ones and can be tackled, including the pathogens of Covid-19

Russian missile attack in southern Ukraine killed at least 13: Officials

Footage posted on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Telegram channel shows civilians lying in a city street littered with debris

Donald Trump blames California Guv Newsom for Los Angeles wildfires

Trump said that Newsom wanted to protect a fish called a smelt by giving it less water instead of caring about the people of California

US Army carries out airstrikes against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels

The US military says it carried out a wave of strikes against what it said were underground arms facilities of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Trump's talk about Canada becoming 51st state isn't funny: Canadian leaders

The joke is over, said LeBlanc; it's a way for him, I think, to sow confusion, to agitate people, to create chaos

B'desh's ex-PM Khaleda Zia in London for treatment, meets son after 7 years

Earlier, the 79-year-old chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had an emotional reunion with her eldest son

Ceasefire, hostage deal between Israel and Hamas very close: Blinken

Blinken said that even if the Biden administration's plans for a ceasefire and hostage deal don't come to fruition before Trump's inauguration, he thinks they'll be put into practice afterward

Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites elections as catalyst

The changes are worrying advocates for vulnerable groups, who say Meta's decision to scale back content moderation could lead to real-word harms

5 killed as wildfires burn out of control across LA, thousands flee homes

Three major blazes were burning in the metropolitan area, from the Pacific Coast inland to Pasadena, home of the famed Rose Parade

Mexican President Sheinbaum responds to Trump's 'Gulf of America' comment

Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed Amrica Mexicana, or Mexican America

Meta to let some FB users view eBay listings as way to resolve EU charges

Meta is carrying out the trial after Brussels slapped the company in November with a penalty of nearly 800 million euros ($824 million) for what it called abusive practices involving Marketplace

US Congressman challenges Biden admin's decision to investigate Adani

Instead of pursuing cases with tenuous jurisdiction and limited relevance to the US interests, the DOJ should focus on punishing bad actors at home, rather than chasing rumours abroad, he said