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The death toll from a wildfire in Almeria in southern Spain rose to 12 after six more victims were found, authorities said Friday.

US President Donald Trump briefed Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about US operations in the Gulf, the Israeli Prime Minister's office said, said, after Iran reported fresh American strikes.

Former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was buried Friday in his home city of Mashhad, state television reported, following a ceremony at which his son and successor was not seen.

A Syrian security official said Thursday that the cell responsible for two bomb blasts during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Damascus this week was affiliated with the Islamic State group.

British political commentator Piers Morgan lamented having written that Trump is a "changed man" after seeing him wage war in Iran.During an episode of The Bulwark Podcast, Morgan spoke about the New York Post column he wrote after Trump was re-elected. In the column, Morgan said that Trump is a "changed man" and could become "one of America's great presidents."Host Tim Miller, a former GOP operative, asked Morgan how those words are looking now that Trump is more than a year into his second administration."Not great," Morgan admitted. "He, unfortunately, has reverted to type."Morgan said, "More worryingly, I think, for his legacy," Trump has "begun to do things which he specifically campaigned on the opposite."The main broken campaign promise identified by Morgan was "not going into war in the Middle East." Trump also campaigned on "focusing on America first and getting inflation down," Morgan pointed out."Why would you launch a global trade war, and why would you go to war with Iran if actually those campaign aims were your priority?" Morgan wondered. "It's the opposite. It's going to have the opposite effect as we've seen."Morgan was hoping to see "Trump Mark 2, particularly after he survived several assassination attempts," and added, "It's unfortunate" that's not what he's seeing."I felt, talking to him, he was a bit of a changed character, but you know, there's also the reality check," Morgan said. "He's just turned 80. There aren't many people who turn 80 who suddenly become different people."Morgan added that if he were advising Trump, he'd say, "It's looking more likely than not he might lose control of the House and the Senate in the midterms," which are only a few months away. "He'll become a lame duck, which will be for him about as bad as life gets."

Vicki Brady grilled at first public appearance since returning from overseas as SA police say call to triple zero failed before deathFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTelstra has admitted it knew of the dangers of a failure of its time systems and is now investigating why backup measures failed to stop this weeks outage, as its chief executive says she’s “deeply sorry” about its impacts.It came as South Australian police said an investigation was under way into whether a death during the outage can be linked to problems in calling triple zero, despite Telstra claiming it has no record of any failed call from family members. Continue reading...

Agents seeking different person when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Mexican who had lived in US for 35 yearsLorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the “enforcement operation”, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the United States for 35 years, the New York Times reported. Continue reading...

This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailFormer Olympic canoeist David Hearn has pleaded not guilty to vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.Hearn, 67, from Maryland, was arrested last month after stopping by the pool on a bike ride. He told several outlets that he was detained for almost five hours after he reached into the water to inspect what he described a piece of the blue liner that was partially detached from the bottom of the pool as he was curious what it felt like. Continue reading...