Top news updates of the day
1. Scores of people were feared dead after a tragic mid-air collision near Reagan Washington National Airport. An American Airlines regional passenger jet, carrying 64 people, crashed into the frigid Potomac River after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.

2. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he would direct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
The facility is expected to hold up to 30,000 migrants. Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba, already has a migrant facility separate from the high-security prison for terrorism suspects.

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3. India is set to make a major leap in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by developing its own large language model (LLM), similar to ChatGPT and DeepSeek. Union Minister of Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, announced that the AI model would be ready in 10 months, marking a significant step toward self-reliance in AI.

4. A Canadian commission report has stated that no "definitive link" to a "foreign state" was proven in the killing of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. This finding undermines Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations of Indian involvement. In September 2023, Trudeau claimed that Canada had credible evidence suggesting Indian government agents were involved in Nijjar's murder in British Columbia.

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5. The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Kerala High Court’s order for state authorities to take over six churches from the Jacobite faction.
The court directed that these churches be handed over to the Malankara Orthodox faction.

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