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At least seven people have died due to the blazes in Portugal's Aveiro and Viseu districts, with dozens of houses destroyed and tens of thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland consumed reut.rs/3ZqcfeJ

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LIVE: View of Beirut following reports of various explosions across Lebanon https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OyJAZlmBPOxb

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NextEra's FPL gets 20-year license extension for Turkey Point nuclear plant reut.rs/4e5Uc1W

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VIDEO: A kind of rice pudding made with turmeric, tahini sesame paste, sugar and pine nuts, mufataka is traditional in Beirut but less known even outside the city. The dessert, which takes hours to make, is now being preserved by a family-run shop in the capital.
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#UPDATE South Korea recorded its highest average summertime temperature since such records began half a century ago, the weather agency said Thursday, nearly two degrees higher than the historic average.

From June to August, the average temperature in the country was 25.6 degrees Celsius (78.08 Fahrenheit), the Korea Meteorological Administration said.

That is the highest figure since the agency set up nationwide observation posts to gather such data in 1973

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#BREAKING Putin says Russia's 'primary objective' is to capture Ukraine's Donbas region

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Asian cuisine-themed brunch restaurants in the U.S. have become a popular outing for Gen Z diners, especially in areas with large Asian American and Pacific Islander populations.