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Wildfire on Spain's popular tourist island of Tenerife was started deliberately, official says 08/22/2023 12:41am • SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — Canary Islands regional President Fernando Clavijo said Sunday that police have confirmed that a wildfire raging on the Spanish tourist island of Tenerife was started deliberately. Clavijo said police had opened three lines of investigation but did no Mass shootings spur divergent laws as states split between gun rights and control 08/22/2023 12:07am • Tennessee's Republican-led Legislature is meeting in special session this week to consider a package of public safety proposals, including some stemming from a deadly shooting at a Nashville elementary school earlier this year. Though the session is not expected to result in any new firearms restri Immigrant workers’ lives, livelihoods and documents in limbo after the Hawaii fire 08/21/2023 11:52pm • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Freddy Tomas was working in his yard in Lahaina when the fire advanced with stunning speed right up to his fence. He rushed to save valuables from a safe inside his house but realized he didn't have time and fled, his face blackened with soot. Days after fleeing in his picku Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams Facebook for blocking Canada wildfire news 08/21/2023 11:43pm • TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday accused Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during the emergencies created by Canada’s record wildfire season. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced earlier this summer it would keep its promi Biden says federal government will help Maui 'for as long as it takes' to recover from wildfire 08/21/2023 11:40pm • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of Hawaii’s wildfires that the nation “grieves with you” and promised that the federal government will help “for as long as it takes” Maui to recover from damage caused by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a centu 'We could have done things differently': 911 call center director on the deadly District Dogs flood 08/21/2023 11:25pm • The delay in alerting first responders to the flooding at a pet day care in Northeast D.C. last week was the result of a miscommunication between D.C.'s 911 call center and D.C. Fire and EMS about the situation's severity, according to the call center director at a news conference Monday. Ten do Canadian firefighters prevent more wildfire losses and step up defense of territorial capital 08/21/2023 09:44pm • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian firefighters prevented wildfires from destroying more structures in a scenic region of British Columbia and stepped up their defense of a territorial capital threatened by flames, authorities said Monday as the prospect of rain raised hopes for the effor 2nd person found dead in eastern Washington wildfires, hundreds of structures burned 08/21/2023 09:17pm • A second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that ignited on Friday, burning hundreds of structures and closing a section of a major interstate for days, fire officials said. A body was found in the area burned by the Oregon fire north of Spokane on Sunday afternoon, fire offici Russia, China look to advance agendas at BRICS summit of developing countries in South Africa 08/21/2023 08:31pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit in South Africa this week, when an expected joint dose of anti-West grumbling from them may take on a sharper edge with a formal move to bring Saudi Arabia closer. Leaders U.N. calls unauthorized construction by Turkish Cypriots a violation of the status quo on Cyprus 08/21/2023 08:12pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday called unauthorized construction by Turkish Cypriots inside the U.N. buffer zone dividing Cyrus a violation of the status quo that is contrary to council resolutions and it condemned their assault on U.N. peacekeepers. 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