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He's now considering a 2027 presidential campaign, in hopes of fending off rising far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

With snowboarding goggles fending off the intense heat, they watched as a backyard eucalyptus tree burst into fire.

They were to aid Kuomintang troops who were fending off a Communist siege by Mao Zedong's army.

But Knight threw Filer the ball for a short burst before lunch and it produced the desired result, with Dercksen fending off a short ball to slip where Ecclestone took a cracking one-handed rebound catch.

The nonprofit hopes the new trees can rejuvenate the struggling population of existing oaks and slow fires by creating a natural buffer and fending off the invasive grasses that have replaced the native chaparral ecosystem.