The BBC’s Emma Vardy saw bullets strewn over streets while touring the fire damage in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday. Some were spent cartridges while other bullets remained live. When fires were burning the BBC heard bangs, pops and explosions, sounds which may have been bullets going off in the heat.
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As the war enters its 707th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Fighting Four people in two villages in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region near the Russian border were killed in Russian shelling, while a woman died in a new assault on…
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