Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 24

DAMASCUS -- A car bomb exploded Thursday in the city of Manbij in Aleppo province in northern Syria, killing three people and wounding five others, a war monitor reported.

The car bomb went off near the Zidan Hanizal School in Manbij, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Car-Explosion)

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LOS ANGELES -- The most recent wildfire, the Laguna Fire, was reported in Ventura