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A trio of British hunger strikers is taking food again last week, after claiming victory in a standoff with the U.K. government over the group Palestine Action. The activist group, best known for vandalizing British companies associated with Israel, has been proscribed as a terrorist organization by the government. Source link

Tens of thousands of Instagram users appear to have been duped by an account purporting to belong to Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding. Instead, a CBC News analysis finds the page features content generated by AI, including images showing a helicopter, a statuette of Wedding and an autographed motorbike. Source link

Shovelling hit new extremes in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula after heavy snow buried cars and buildings, reaching a height of up to four metres in some areas, according to Russia’s national weather service. Source link

Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country’s exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,” online video showed early Monday, the latest disruption to follow nationwide protests in the country. Source link

Wildfires in Chile have killed at least 19 people, officials said Monday, with tens of thousands forced from their homes and firefighters battling intense heat and high winds. Before and after satellite images from Jan. 17 and two days later show the scale of devastation from the fires in the coastal Biobio region. Source link

“It’s time to speak the language that President Trump understands,” Swedish MEP Karin Karlsbro tells As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. Source link

An explosion at a restaurant in downtown Kabul on Monday killed at least seven people and wounded about a dozen more, according to police and an Italian charity running a surgical unit in the city. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. Source link

Experts probing the cause of Sunday’s derailment of a high-speed train in Spain, which killed at least 39 people, found a broken joint on the rails, according to a source briefed on initial investigations into the disaster. Source link

Pakistani firefighters began pulling bodies from the smoldering remains of a sprawling Karachi shopping mall on Monday, where more than 60 people were still missing after a massive fire that killed at least 19 people. Source link

Donald Trump said he was “100 per cent” committed to following through on his threat to tariff eight countries as exasperated Danish and European officials stiffened their resistance while hoping for a diplomatic offramp for the U.S. president’s designs on Greenland. Source link