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Record-breaking heat wave grips western United States

A record early heat wave striking the western United States on Friday is a one-in-500-year event and almost certainly the result of human-caused climate change, experts say. The heat has been toppling records this week and is set to continue into the weekend across western cities while expanding eastward. Four locations in the desert area near the California-Arizona border registered 44.4 degrees Celsius on Friday, a US national record for March. The readings were recorded near Yuma and Martinez Lake in Arizona, and around Winterhaven and Ogilby in California. Read: Intense heatwave grips US, triggering record-breaking temperatures Already, 65 cities have recorded new March highs, ranging from Arizona and California to Idaho, Weather.com reported. Death Valley reached 40°C on Thursday, while typically cool and foggy San Francisco tied its historic March record at 29°C. In Colorado, skiers were seen hitting the slopes shirtless. The National Weather Service issued extreme heat warni...
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Trump lauds British troops ‘brave warriors’ after Europe criticism

United States President Donald Trump on Saturday praised "brave" British soldiers, calling them warriors, a day after remarks he made about NATO troops in Afghanistan were described as "insulting and appalling" by Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Trump provoked widespread anger in Britain and across Europe after he said European troops had stayed off the front lines in Afghanistan. Britain lost 457 service personnel in Afghanistan, its deadliest overseas war since the 1950s. For several of the war's most intense years, it led the allied campaign in Helmand, Afghanistan's biggest and most violent province, while also fighting as the main US battlefield ally in Iraq. "The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. He added, "In Afghanistan, 457 died, many were badly injured, and they were among the greatest of all warriors. It's a bond too strong to ever be broken". The Sun on Sunday newspaper reported that King Charles' concern over Trump's initial remarks had been relayed to the president, who last year expressed his admiration for the monarch during a state visit to Britain. Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the report. Read: Romancing Trump Trump had also provoked an unusually strong reaction from Starmer, who has tended to avoid direct criticism of the president in public. The British leader's office stated that the prime minister had spoken to the president on Saturday about the issue. "The prime minister raised the brave and heroic British and American soldiers who fought side by side in Afghanistan, many of whom never returned home," the statement said. "We must never forget their sacrifice," he said. Read More: Joined Trump's Board of Peace after cabinet's nod: PM Veterans in Britain and elsewhere have been lining up to condemn the US president's comments to Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria" on Thursday, in which he said that the US had "never needed" the transatlantic alliance and accused allies of staying "a little off the front lines" in Afghanistan. Among them was King Charles' younger son, Prince Harry, who served two tours in Afghanistan. "Those sacrifices deserve to be spoken about truthfully and with respect," he said in a statement.

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