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He had managed to swoop from his cage when the keeper who cleaned out the enclosure was a little lax in ensuring he'd closed the door properly.

Every year, Indigenous people set small low-intensity fires to manage the landscape and clean out low-lying brush — a process that magnified the yield of their plants for medicine and craft-making.

The president spoke of "cleaning out" Gaza and resettling Palestinians in remarks to reporters on Air Force One just days after his inauguration.

Trump has previously called for a "clean out" of Gaza, saying Palestinians should be permanently resettled.

When US President Donald Trump began speaking 10 days ago of Gaza as a demolition site, calling to "clean out that whole thing", it wasn't clear how far these were off-the-cuff remarks.