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US sanctions three individuals and two charities over alleged Hamas financing

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The justice and treasury departments said they sent $2m to Hamas through charities and cryptocurrency, while six people were arrested across the US and France The Trump administration on Friday unveiled sanctions against three individuals allegedly related to the Islamist militant group Hamas and against two charities based in France while also announcing six arrests – actions that the government called an “extraordinary counter-terrorism work” to expose “a sophisticated, multi‑year financing architecture”. Investigators alleged that the network moved…

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Hawaii’s picturesque Hōlei Sea Arch collapses into the ocean

The Google Maps red pin for the Hōlei Sea Arch, a rugged, 90-foot bow formed by 550-year-old lava flows and the prolonged sculpture of the salty Pacific, now states, “Permanently closed.” On Thursday, the National Park Service said the picturesque arch at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island had collapsed sometime between Sept. 23 and Sunday, around the time a tropical cyclone sent sizable swell into the coast. “The exact time of the collapse is unknown and could have occurred when the park was temporarily closed during Tropical Storm Nolo,” the park service said in a statement.

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