SAN FRANCISCO -- A bomb cyclone hit the U.S. state of Washington Tuesday night and early Wednesday, causing one person dead and some half a million without power.

Damage from fallen trees and downed wires was reported throughout the region. A woman died after a large tree fell onto a homeless encampment in Lynnwood during Tuesday night's storm, according to the South County Fire. (US-Washington State-Weather-Damage)

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BAMAKO -- Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and his government were dismissed on Wednesday, according to a decree issued by President Assimi Goita.

"The duties of the prime minister and the members of the government are terminated," said the decree, which was read out by the secretary general of the presidency on state television station ORTM. (Mali-PM)

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LOS ANGELES -- NASA intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will deliver large pieces of equipment and infrastructure to the lunar surface, the agency said on Wednesday.

NASA expects to assign demonstration missions to current human landing system providers, SpaceX and Blue Origin, to mature designs of their large cargo landers following successful design certification reviews. (U.S.-NASA-lunar mission)

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DAMASCUS -- The death toll from an Israeli missile attack that hit sites in and around the city of Palmyra in central Syria on Wednesday has risen to 49, with over 50 others wounded, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Britain-based watchdog group reported that among the fatalities were 24 Syrian nationals affiliated with Iranian militias, including officers in the Syrian government forces-one of whom was a brigadier general loyal to Lebanon's Hezbollah. (Syria-Israel-Attack) Enditem

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