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Apple launched its dedicated Apple Store app in India on Friday, deepening its retail presence in the world’s most populous country as the iPhone-maker seeks to capitalize on growing consumer demand. The app, available for download on India’s App Store, lets customers purchase Apple products directly while receiving personalized shopping recommendations, the company said in a statement. Through the app, users can also customize their Mac with more powerful chips, extra memory or additional storage — features long sought by Indian customers — and arrange for delivery or pickup of their purchases. The move comes as Apple works to strengthen…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a meeting of Israel’s political security cabinet on Friday to approve the Gaza cease-fire deal after Israeli and Hamas negotiators worked out their remaining differences.Mr. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement early Friday that he had ordered the meeting to approve the deal for later in the day.Lawmakers would later “convene to approve the deal,” the statement said, without specifying the day.A security cabinet vote that had been expected on Thursday was delayed by last-minute disputes with Hamas and rifts over the agreement that emerged inside Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition.The prime minister’s office said that…

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a “deal to release the hostages” has been agreed.Netanyahu had delayed a cabinet vote to approve the Gaza ceasefire deal, due on Thursday, accusing Hamas of seeking last-minute changes to the agreement.On Friday morning his office said Netanyahu had been informed by the negotiating team that agreements on the deal had been reached. He has ordered the political-security cabinet to convene later on Friday and the government “will then convene to approve the deal”, Netanyahu’s office said. Families of the hostages have been informed, it added. Representatives of Israel, Hamas, the…

President Biden won’t enforce a TikTok ban set to take effect Sunday, a U.S. official told the Associated Press on Thursday.Congress passed a law requiring Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok by Jan. 19 on national security grounds. The official told the AP it would be up to the incoming Trump administration to decide whether to enforce the ban or not.Trump has wavered in his support for the social media app. After previously calling for a ban, he has since pledged to keep it available. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday and be…

A child from the Gaza Strip seeking medical treatment arrived Thursday in Winnipeg, supported in part by the Manitoba government, and a federal cabinet minister called on other provinces to follow suit. The 11-year-old Palestinian boy and his mother were greeted at the airport by Premier Wab Kinew, who said the province is already planning to welcome a second child in the coming weeks.“We have always been a people who stand up during times of conflict and famine and natural disaster to help the innocent,” Kinew said.Kinew did not name the 11-year-old boy or discuss details of his medical condition,…

The California Highway Patrol is searching for two dirt bike riders who started a multi-city police chase Thursday afternoon that garnered more than a dozen other bikers.Two riders are accused of calling up to a dozen additional riders to join them on the chase across Los Angeles, through East Los Angeles, Inglewood, Mid-City, and Pico Union, according to affiliate FOX 11.The original two suspects were on white and purple dirt bikes, both wearing dark clothing, FOX 11 reported. Others joined using the same color bikes and wearing the same color clothing. A dirt bike rider was captured on video doing…

South Korea’s arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, will not attend a new round of questioning by investigators on Friday, his lawyer said, as authorities face an imminent deadline to obtain a warrant to extend his detention or release the embattled leader.In order to hold Yoon in custody for longer, investigators are expected on Friday to ask a court to approve a detention warrant for up to 20 days, legal experts said.On Wednesday, Yoon became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested, over a probe into whether he committed insurrection when he briefly imposed martial law in early December.…

It sold out in four days. The “Aldon Schokolade Dubai Style” was created by patissiers at a fancy hotel in the centre of Berlin. It came in 500g bars with ingredients like home-roasted pistachios and French Valrhona chocolate. Only 50 were made and they went for the princely sum of €69 ($71) apiece in November.

Mr. Ben-Gvir had already proved to be an unreliable and troublesome coalition partner. Demanding wage hikes for the police, he refused to support the government in passing a crucial piece of legislation last month, forcing Mr. Netanyahu to leave his hospital bed as he was recovering from prostate surgery and vote in the assembly to make sure the law passed.Mr. Netanyahu has held frequent and lengthy meetings with Mr. Smotrich in recent days to persuade him to remain in the coalition. After three hours of talks between Mr. Smotrich and his party’s lawmakers on Thursday, the party issued an ultimatum…

Watch: Footage reveals extensive devastation from California wildfiresFirefighters battling two fires that have wreaked destruction across Los Angeles for nine days have had some respite on Thursday from the weather.The near hurricane-strength winds that initially fanned the flames and hampered rescue efforts have weakened into much lighter gusts.Progress has been made in containing the two largest fires burning across a combined total of about 40,000 acres.At least 27 people have been killed and more than 12,000 structures destroyed in some of the worst fires in memory to engulf America’s second biggest city.The two largest fires, Eaton and Palisades, are still…