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UK leader Starmer makes formal government apology for decades of forced adoptions of babies born to unwed mothers

By The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — UK leader Starmer makes formal government apology for decades of forced adoptions of babies born to unwed mothers.

A 2:47 a.m. alert, a rabbit and 220,000 evacuees as France’s wildfire rages on

By The Associated Press
BORDEAUX, France (AP) — The mobile phone alert message marked “URGENT” came with a beeeeeeep in the dead of night. “Evacuate now,” it said. Suddenly awake, Morgane Bonichot scrambled. She grabbed her 9-year-old daughter, their rabbit and their dog but didn't think to pack underwear. The 40-year-old childcare worker found herself swept up in one of the biggest evacuations Europe has seen since World War II, forced with more than 220,000 other people to flee a monster wildfire in southwest France that has consumed an area four times the size of Paris and is defying a massive effort, involving a dozen countries, to bring it under control.
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