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India and Indonesia have taken a significant step forward in their strategic partnership, strengthening defence and maritime cooperation through key agreements and initiatives. The two nations reaffirmed their commitment to deepening ties with the ratification of the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and agreed to enhance collaboration through cadet exchanges between their Naval Academies.

Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he's zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for criticism: State water policy.

When Calls the Heart continues its twelfth season. Episode 3, All That Glitters, debuts on January 19, 2025.

Despite a weekend reprieve from the dangerously high winds that have fanned wildfires in Los Angeles and surrounding California areas over the past week, officials say the winds are set to return this week and will jeopardize efforts to extinguish two massive fires that have already levelled entire neighbourhoods and killed at least two dozen people.

 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles star Josh Flagg discusses evacuating Los Angeles amid the flames on The Claman Countdown.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Dear reader, Hello and welcome to the first edition of 2025 of Climate Change And You. It’s been two months since Sayantan and I started the newsletter, and it has been a busy time in terms of climate news.

‘Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles’ star Josh Flagg discusses evacuating Los Angeles amid the flames on ‘The Claman Countdown.’

Ben Affleck returns to his unharmed Pacific Palisades home after fleeing to his ex-wife Jennifer Garner's home. Although the neighborhood where the actor's «bachelor pad» is located is still vulnerable to potential new fires, it was one of the few locations that survived the tragedy. ALSO READ Malibu: Once dotted with gleaming beachfront villas, now looks like a ghost town; the devastation looks apocalyptic. Here are details

Gary Hall Jr. claims that fires in California destroyed everything he owned, including his ten medals. Gary Hall Jr., a former American Olympic swimmer, described the apocalyptic destruction and his own losses caused by the devastating wildfires that are still destroying Los Angeles. With the exception of a few personal belongings he hastily packed before leaving, the 50-year-old athlete told the Sydney Morning Herald that the consuming fires destroyed his rented home in the Pacific Palisades, his ten Olympic medals, the swimming pool where he taught his kids to swim, and most of his possessions, as quoted in a report by The Independent. ALSO READ Lost Angeles! Pacific Palisades totally devasted; these A-list celebrities' homes have burned to the ground

A-list celebrities like John Goodman, Anthony Hopkins, and Billy Crystal have had their homes in the Pacific Palisades destroyed by fire. The toll on the entertainment industry grew as firefighters battled in vain Wednesday to stop the spread of a raging fire that destroyed the Pacific Palisades. Billy Crystal, Anna Faris, John Goodman, Anthony Hopkins, Eugene Levy, and Miles Teller were among the more than six celebrities who lost their homes in the community perched above the Pacific Ocean as a result of the Santa Ana wind-fueled fire by the afternoon, according to social media posts and Page Six reporting.

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Los Angeles wildfires. The company, through its nonprofit arm Airbnb.org, is partnering with 211 LA, a nonprofit that serves Los Angeles County for a variety of resources and services, such as food assistance and shelter, to «provide free, temporary housing for people who have been displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires.»

Pacific rivals, state media reported Tuesday, as Washington's top diplomat visited the region.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s President Xi Jinping had a message for Taiwan in his New Year’s speech. “We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same family," he said.

Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture, Kotaro Nagasaki, expressed his admiration for India during his meeting with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday, highlighting the strong diplomatic and historical ties between the two nations.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Veterans at Wipro Ltd are steadily rising to the top in Srinivas Pallia's eight months in the corner office, at a time when India's fourth largest technology services firm is working to recover from a full-year revenue decline. Chief marketing officer Laura Langdon resigned earlier this week and will be succeeded by Asia business CMO Ranjita Ghosh.

Cloud computing solution provider AceCloud on Tuesday announced a new cloud region in Noida in partnership with data solution provider firms NetApp and Quantum. A cloud region is a specific geographic area containing multiple data centres owned by a service provider. The cloud region will offer low-latency access to advanced cloud technologies with enterprise-level reliability, integrated security, and disaster recovery features, a company statement said. It will offer affordable pricing plans for high-performance cloud services. The pricing for compute for GPU will start from $ 0.03/hour and object storage at $ 7/TB/month, it said.

To determine the busiest international and domestic flight routes, OAG analyzed the volume of scheduled airline seats from January to December 2024. The routes listed reflect round trip flights rather than one-ways in a single direction. “With the Asia Pacific region very close to a full recovery, the busiest routes are concentrated in the familiar major hubs of Hong Kong, Seoul Incheon and Singapore,” said John Grant, chief analyst at OAG, in a release.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Drones have revolutionized modern warfare in the sky. Now defense companies and navies are betting they can do the same underwater.

Boeing is resuming production of its bestselling plane, the 737 Max