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A mysterious fever in Jakarta’s wet market ricochets through currency desks, factory floors, and protest squares, proving that global health and economic stability now move as one.
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A mysterious fever in Jakarta’s wet market ricochets through currency desks, factory floors, and protest squares, proving that global health and economic stability now move as one.

New York has logged more than 71,000 flu cases—smashing prior records—prompting emergency orders, mobile clinics, and a statewide mask mandate as hospitals buckle under the surge.
A fiery semi-truck crash on the 5 Freeway in Boyle Heights killed one and injured 15, snarling traffic for miles as crews battled flames and investigated the wreckage.
President Jeffrey R. Holland, 85, leader of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, has died, triggering global mourning and questions about succession in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Ukraine’s president lands in Florida for unannounced talks with Donald Trump on a possible cease-fire plan, upending U.S. politics and European diplomacy.
A Midland father tracked his kidnapped daughter’s phone for 20 miles, then sprinted the final three on foot to bring her home.

A ruptured gas main shuttered the 405 freeway and forced thousands to shelter indoors, exposing the hidden dangers beneath L.A.’s concrete arteries.

Kosovo’s snap election draws record turnout as voters seek to break a year-long political stalemate that has stunted EU talks and economic growth.

Brigitte Bardot, the French screen siren who turned international sex symbol into a lifelong crusade for animals, has died at 91 in her Saint-Tropez home.

Myanmar’s junta stage-managed an election as gunfire echoed nearby, offering voters only military proxies and threatening dissenters with jail.
Yin Paung Taung’s school-turned-polling site reveals how Myanmar’s election unfolded under military guns, with voters coerced, opposition absent, and bombs falling upcountry.

Myanmar’s military stages nationwide polls while civil war rages, turnout plummets, and rebels deride the exercise as wartime propaganda.