WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, a scaled-down version of the massive "Build Back Better" package he and many Democrats envisioned last year.

Touting it as a "historic bill," Biden said at the White House that it will lower costs for American families, combat the climate crisis, reduct the deficit, and finally make the largest corporations pay their fair share in taxes. (US-Inflation Act-Tax-Climate)

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MADRID -- A wildfire in the Alicante Province of Spain's Valencian Community continued to rage on Monday, after burning over 9,500 hectares of land and evacuating almost 2,000 people from their homes, civil protection agencies said.

The fire in Vall d'Ebo has affected a radius of around 75 kilometers, where strong winds, high temperatures and complicated geographic conditions in the hilly terrains have dampened firefighters' efforts to put out the flames, the Valencian regional government said. (Spain-Environment)

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TOKYO -- Many Japanese citizens have staged anti-war protests in Tokyo on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of Japan's defeat and unconditional surrender in World War II.

Local demonstrators on Monday took to the streets and raised their voices against war and the amendment of Japan's current pacifist Constitution, expressing their desire to maintain peace. (Japan-Anti-war protest)

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KHARTOUM -- A total of 66 people were killed during torrential rains that hit wide areas of Sudan in the past week, a Sudanese official said on Tuesday.

Abdul-Jalil Abdul-Rahim, spokesman of Sudan's National Council for Civil Defense, said 66 people were killed and 28 others were wounded in the heavy rains, which destroyed 8,993 homes and damaged 14,953 others. (Sudan-Heavy rains-Deaths)

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ABUJA -- Nine people were killed and 13 others seriously injured following a head-on collision involving a bus and a truck in Nigeria's northeastern state of Bauchi, the traffic police said on Tuesday.

The incident involving 22 people occurred on Monday night on a road near the Kwana Shettu village in Bauchi, Yusuf Abdullahi, a commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, told reporters in Bauchi, the state's capital. (Nigeria-Road accident) Enditem

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