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President Biden appointed an emergency relief manager to coordinate the federal government's response in Hawaii.

The announcement reported from Air Force One came as Mr. Biden travelled to Maui, his first visit since wildfires killed at least 114 people there.

Meanwhile, tropical storm Hillary brought record-breaking rainfall to Los Angeles, San Diego and other parts of southern California, causing flooding and mudslides.

Officials in Los Angeles said that no deaths were reported.

In Mexico, earlier hit by storm Hillary, at least one person died.

Donald Trump's lawyers reached an agreement with the prosecutor's office in Georgia setting his bond at $200,000.

Mr. Trump is due to appear at the courthouse in Atlanta by Friday to be arraigned on record-tearing charges.

He denies wrongdoing.

The indictment is the second to alleged election interference and the first to seemingly require the former president to pay a cash bond.

Ecuadorians voted to ban oil drilling in part of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse places on earth.

Environmentalists and indigenous groups applauded the outcome, but others, including a government minister, express concern about losing revenue from the country.

The government must dismantle operations and reforest the impacted area in the coming months.

Bernardo Arevolo, an anti-corruption candidate, won a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential election.

Mr. Arevolo, standing for the left-leaning seed party, won 58% of the vote against his opponent Sandra Torres, a former first lady, with 99% of ballots counted.

But many fear that the Guatemala's conservative establishment may yet try to keep him out of power.

Lucy Letby, a former nurse convicted of killing seven babies and attempting to murder six more, was sentenced to a whole life term with no chance of parole by a court in Manchester.

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