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Families laid to rest Wednesday victims of a fuel tank blast that killed at least 28 people in northern Lebanon amid anger and sorrow over the crisis-hit country's latest tragedyhttp://u.afp.com/UKyH 

"With everything going on in Haiti (her father's homeland) and Afghanistan, things are really crazy," Naomi Osaka said after her comeback win in Cincinnati. "It's crazy for me to be in the US hitting a tennis ball and people come and watch me play"http://u.afp.com/UKyr 

Geronimo the alpaca, whose fight for life after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis has dominated British media in recent weeks, will be put down, a judge ruledhttp://u.afp.com/UKy8 

A wildfire that erupted outside California's state capital just a few days ago had exploded to cover more than 53,000 acres by Wednesdayhttp://u.afp.com/UKyh 

The Taliban, who have pledged a different sort of rule in Afghanistan from their brutal regime two decades ago, met with former president Hamid Karzai and senior official Abdullah Abdullah Wednesday as they seek to form a governmenthttp://u.afp.com/UKy7 

Two US senators requested a federal investigation of Tesla's statements about its Autopilot driver assistance system Wednesday, asserting in the wake of multiple crashes that the automaker's exaggerations have put consumers at riskhttp://u.afp.com/UKyn 

Tropical storm Grace strengthened to a hurricane on Wednesday as it barreled toward Mexico's Caribbean coast, threatening to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and large waves, meteorologists saidhttp://u.afp.com/UKyW