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The fire brigade said it was called on Wednesday evening to a house in an isolated hamlet in the Haute-Vienne department of France.

Julian Castro, who launched his campaign in January, dropped out after failing to garner enough support in the polls or donations to make recent Democratic debates.

The case being heard by the employment tribunal in the eastern England city of Norwich on Thursday and Friday will determine whether ethical veganism is a 'philosophical or religious belief'.

Nineteen-month-old Harvey Keaton stood quietly, sucking on a pacifier, as the fire service commissioner pinned a posthumous commendation for bravery and service to his neatly pressed, oversized Rural Fire Services (RFS) shirt.

Lifelong friends, Hale and Eliot exchanged letters for about 25 years beginning in 1930. The two met in 1912 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but did not rekindle their friendship until 1927.

According to police, traffic police constable Amir, who was posted at Zaman Town traffic section, tried to prevent the Chinese national from parking his car there, which was a no-parking zone.

The attack in Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold Syria, was part of an ongoing offensive in which Syrian troops have captured more than 40 villages and hamlets over the past two weeks.

The blaze destroyed the monkey enclosure, which opened in 1975, shortly before midnight. But firefighters prevented the flames from spreading to other buildings at the zoo in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Venezuelan authorities have not said anything about a toll from the rioting, which the NGO said broke out at a jail which serves as a holding pen at a regional police headquarters.

His legal team in Japan had sought to have the case against him thrown out, claiming several missteps by the prosecution.

At least 25 fighters were killed in Sunday night's attacks, which were in retaliation for the death last week of a US civilian contractor.

The bombing was the deadliest in more than two years in a country wrecked by nearly three decades of Islamist violence and clan warfare.

The conflict, lasting from roughly 1968 to 1998, claimed some 3,700 lives and was ended by a power-sharing system called Good Friday Agreement.

There has been a public push to close the centres ever since China's top legislative committee abolished its system of 're-education through labour camps' in 2013.

After the 18-day ordeal came to an end last June — with the entire team emerging safely from Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand — he was under close supervision by doctors during his yearlong illness.

This year is set to be the second hottest year in history and each of the disasters in the report has a link with climate change.