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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the group would ‘get rid of fact-checkers’ and replace them with community-based posts, starting in the US. — AFP pic

Australia warns of disinformation storm after Meta drops fact-checkers in US

A helicopter flies, as smoke rises from the Sunset Fire in the hills overlooking the Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles January 8, 2025. — Reuters pic

Out-of-control Los Angeles wildfires push water supplies to the brink

Doing a Musk? What’s behind Zuckerberg’s surprise Trump pivot

Pope Francis on Thursday stepped up his recent criticisms of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave very serious and shameful. — Reuters pic

Pope Francis condemns Israel’s Gaza campaign, calls humanitarian crisis ‘shameful’

This photograph shows an overturned bus near Hadsel, on December 26, 2024. — AFP pic

Two French, one Chinese citizen killed in Norway coach crash, police reveals

Japan in the last week of December experienced the biggest influenza outbreak since comparable data became available 25 years ago, health authorities said Thursday. — Reuters pic

Japan sees worst flu outbreak in 25 years with over 317,000 cases in last week of December

Meteorologists predicted that Bangkok would experience its coldest weather in nearly four decades this Sunday and Monday, with temperatures expected to drop to 16°C. — AFP pic

Bangkok braces for coldest weather in 40 years as temperatures plunge to 16°C this weekend

More than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate as dry, hurricane-force winds hindered firefighting operations and spread the fires. — Reuters pic

Hollywood is burning: Los Angeles wildfires spiral out of control, at least five dead, over 100,000 evacuated

 File photo of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun arrives in front of the latter’s official residence. — Reuters

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept court decision even if it ends presidency

Chinese health authorities have detected the new mutated mpox strain clade Ib. — Reuters

China discovers cluster of new mpox strain

Masked children, accompanied by adults, wait to be seen by medical staff at the pediatric department of a hospital in Hangzhou, eastern China’s Zhejiang province.

Doctors in China downplay reports claiming ‘surge’ in HMPV cases, pointing instead to the rise of influenza infections

Takeshi Ebisawa poses with a rocket launcher during a meeting with an informant and two undercover Danish police officers at a warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark in Feb. 3, 2021. — Reuters 

Japanese crime leader pleads guilty in US to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

 Smoke from the Palisades Fire is seen over the Pacific Ocean. — AFP

Extreme weather, suburban sprawl fuel LA’s wildfires

An apartment building burns in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county. — AFP

Multi-million Malibu mansions razed as Los Angeles wildfire burns down whole streets

Government health workers test a resident of the Roli Madeira riverside community amid concern over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in the southwest of Marajo Island, in the state of Para, Brazil, on June 1, 2020. — AFP pic

The next pandemic is a matter of when — is the world ready to tackle it amid inequality and disinformation?

Maryland Cremation Services transporter Reggie Elliott brings the remains of a Covid-19 victim to his van from the hospital's morgue in Baltimore, Maryland on December 24, 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. — AFP pic

Forgotten but not gone: Five years on, Covid still infecting and killing humans across the globe