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Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Syrian resettled in Uruguay in 2014 after being held by the U.S. for 12 years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is planning a hunger strike to demand that he be allowed to leave the country to meet his family, said his Uruguayan liaison, Christian Mirza.

Marine Le Pen, who is running for France’s presidency as leader of the National Front, said in a rally in Brachay that, if elected in the spring, she will organize a nationwide vote on France’s membership in the European Union.

Amber Briggle of Denton, Texas, had Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is suing over a White House directive on transgender students’ choice of public school bathrooms, over for dinner to meet her 8-year-old transgender son, MG, and said Paxton and MG mostly swapped jokes and magic tricks, and the dinner conversation staying mostly away from politics.

Hayley Murphy, a veterinarian at Zoo Atlanta, announced that the zoo’s 19-year-old giant panda, Lun Lun, has given birth to twins, her sixth and seventh offspring with 18-year-old Yang Yang.

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous antivirus computer program now owned by Intel Corp., is suing the company for the right to use his own name in a future business venture, which Intel claims will infringe on its trademark.

David Dinkins, 89, New York City’s former mayor, in a response to a lawsuit filed by Rodrigo Garcia, a bicycle deliveryman who says Dinkins’ car clipped his bike, causing him to fall and break an ankle, said he was driving his wife to the hospital and was not aware of striking a cyclist.

Anthony Weiner, the former New York congressman, confirmed that he has received a letter from the New York City Administration for Children’s Services about an investigation into photos that he reportedly sent to a woman, including one of himself in his underwear lying on a bed with his 4-year-old son.

Russell Terrence Smith, a janitor at Tavares High School in Florida, has been charged, accused by head custodian Jackie Rocket-Smart Hansell of putting floor wax remover in her soda after they argued over her recent promotion.

Leo Mask, sheriff of Pontotoc County, Miss., said prison inmates were summoned to clean up money that was scattered along a road, but found that the $100 bills were fake and emblazoned with the words “For Motion Picture Use Only.”