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1. Israel, Hamas agree to ceasefire deal to stop fighting and return hostages

   

2. Dozens of bodies retrieved from South Africa mine after months-long police standoff

   

   First responders pulled dozens of bodies and hundreds of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, bringing a grisly end to a months-long standoff with illegal miners and their families.

3. Migrants brace for Trump's mass deportation threat with panic buttons, long-term babysitters

   

   The most immediate risk after next week's U.S. presidential transition isn't to residents of those nations Donald Trump has mused about invading. It's to the millions of undocumented migrants he vows to deport, including young people who don't remember life anywhere else.

4. Barrick Gold suspends operations in Mali after government seizes gold stocks

   

   Barrick Gold Corporation has halted its operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks worth $245 million Cdn from the company's Loulo-Gounkoto complex.

5. Red dye No. 3 banned from foods, U.S. regulator says

   

   U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the additive called red dye No. 3 from the nation's food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk.