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Mutations are rare but have been reported in some cases in other countries and most often in extreme infectionsThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from an infected backyard flock on the patient’s property.The CDC said the...

Kathy Hochul calls for ousting of correction officers and nurse allegedly involved in death of Robert Brooks, 43The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, has directed 14 workers at a state prison to be fired after they were allegedly involved in an attack that resulted in the death of an incarcerated man.Robert Brooks, 43, died in a local hospital a day after a 9 December...

Head of the World Health Organization and other UN staff reportedly safe after strikes on Sana’a airport in YemenFive Palestinian journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle in central Gaza, their employer has said, while Israel has also struck several areas in Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen in air raids.Faisal Abu al-Qumsan, Ayman al-Jadi, Ibrahim al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed al-Lada’a were...

At least one dead and three missing amid storm that has split wharf, wrecked boat and piled up debrisCalifornia residents are being warned to stay off wharves, piers and other waterside structures as 20-30ft waves are expected to batter the northern Pacific coast for the rest of the week.The National Weather Service advisory comes after a 150ft section of the wharf in Santa Cruz...

Police chief says 33 prisoners dead and 15 others injured after confrontation with security forcesAt least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the chief of police has said, as widespread post-election riots and violence continue to engulf the country.The police general commander, Bernardino Rafael, said 33 prisoners had died and 15 others were...

Northwest Naturals has told customers to throw out Feline Turkey Recipe pet food after batch tested positive for virusA voluntary recall of raw and frozen cat food has been issued in Oregon after a cat that died of bird flu was linked to the product, state officials have said.Northwest Naturals has instructed customers of its Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food to throw...

On Truth Social, president-elect also lashes out at Chinese troops in Panama Canal and Canadian PM Justin TrudeauDonald Trump has told 37 people on death row who had their sentences commuted by Joe Biden to “go to hell” in a lacerating Christmas Day social media post.The president-elect – long a vocal advocate of capital punishment – lashed out at Biden’s decision on his Truth...

The ex-politician was admitted to hospital on Thursday after his health deterioratedManmohan Singh, India’s first Sikh prime minister and the architect of the big-bang economic reforms that set the stage for the country’s emergence as a global powerhouse, has died aged 92.A hospital statement attributed Singh’s death to “age-related medical conditions”. Continue reading...

Cook Islands-registered Eagle S was carrying Russian oil in the Baltic SeaFinnish authorities have seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, and that it also damaged or broke four internet lines.A Finnish coastguard crew boarded the Cook Islands-registered ship, named by authorities as...

Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island’s most important historical textsWork has begun to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.The ecclesiastical register, which dates back to the medieval period, is about 650 years old. It belonged to the former archbishop of Armagh Milo Sweteman. Continue reading...

Ukraine official also says crash caused by Russian air defence fire, while Russia plays down involvementRussia and Kazakhstan have sought to play down speculation about the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash, as a US official said there were early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the plane.The assertion comes after a Ukrainian national security official and several sources in Azerbaijan claimed that...

Family plans to livestream memorial service for teenage actor who died two days after getting hurt in Vestavia Hills, AlabamaThe teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said.Meek, 16, was hurt on December 19 while on a street in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham. He died two days later, according to the Jefferson...

Tom Homan also said that undocumented parents of US-born children will be deported, with or without their kidsUS immigration authorities will resume the controversial policy of putting families with children in detention centres as part of a drive to deport undocumented immigrants, the incoming Trump administration’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, has said.Homan, regarded as the “architect” of the widely vilified family separation policy applied...

Waves towering up to 30 metres killed more than 220,000 people in 15 countries in deadliest tsunami in historyCeremonies have been held in countries across Asia to remember the more than 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago in the Indian Ocean tsunami, the most deadly tsunami in history.On 26 December 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sumatra island, triggering huge waves that...

Former prisoners endured hearing fellow inmates being executed – but they are the lucky ones, with 100,000 people still missingOf all the horrors Mohammed Ammar Hamami remembers from his time in the Assad regime’s notorious Sednaya prison, the most vivid is the clanging of metal execution tables being moved around on the floor below.About once every 40 days, prison guards would drag the tables...

Book banned since 1988 is ‘selling out’ after import bar was overturned due to missing paperworkSalman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses – which led to a fatwa threatening his life, forcing him into hiding for a decade – has finally returned to bookshops in India, the land of his birth.The novel, inspired by the life of the prophet Muhammad, became the focus of...

Announcement comes as Trump has threatened to reassert control over canal, which US handed to Panama in 1999President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated the Miami-Dade county commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera to serve as ambassador to Panama.Trump described Cabrera as “a fierce fighter for America First principles” who he said has been instrumental in driving economic growth and fostering international partnerships. Continue reading...

If motion is successful, it would be country’s second impeachment of a head of state in less than two weeksSouth Korea’s opposition has said it has filed an impeachment motion against the acting president, Han Duck-soo, in an escalating row over the composition of the constitutional court which will decide whether to remove his predecessor from office.South Korea fell into a political crisis when...

11 ‘imitator drones’ did not reach their targets after active engagement from the Ukrainian military, it saidRussia thinks a weak ceasefire to freeze the war in Ukraine would be futile and counterproductive, and instead would rather a legally binding deal for a lasting peace that would ensure the security of both Russia and its neighbours, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.He said he suspected...

Sun Chanthy also barred from running for office, in latest case to target critics of governmentThe leader of a Cambodian opposition party has been sentenced to two years in jail and banned from running for office after he was found guilty of inciting social disorder, in the latest legal case to target government critics.Sun Chanthy, the president of the Nation Power party, was found...

Security personnel and three armed men killed in Tartous province after forces sought to arrest officer linked to Sednaya prison, says Syrian Observatory for Human RightsHello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and developments in the Middle East more widely.Fourteen security personnel from Syria’s new authorities and three armed men were killed in clashes in Tartous province when...

Potential IPCC rule changes could award planned carbon savings from burning US wood pellets to the exporter, not the importerThe UK government is gambling with its own climate targets on claims that the Drax power plant will create “negative emissions” because new rules could hand the carbon savings to the US, campaigners say.The owners of the North Yorkshire power plant have promised ministers that...

Residents in some areas warned it is too late to leave as authorities brace for dangerous winds overnightVictoria bushfires: blazes threaten Grampians, Bullengarook, the Gurdies and Creswick – in picturesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictorians have been on high alert as the state faced one of its most dangerous fire days in years and firefighters worked to contain multiple...

YouGov survey finds negotiated end to war with Russia is preferred option in four out of seven countriesReadiness to support Ukraine “until it wins” has fallen sharply across western Europe at a critical time for the country, a survey suggests, as Donald Trump’s forthcoming return to the White House raises questions over the future of US military assistance to Kyiv.December polling by YouGov in...