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Thursday February 5th, 2026 evening edition

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The Coca-Cola Company said it is discontinuing Minute Maid’s cans of frozen orange juice concentrate in the U.S. and Canada.

The iconic, slush-filled tubes of orange juice concentrate, which have been around for 80 years, sit in the freezer section of most supermarkets, where they’ve waited patiently to be used for party punches, smoothies and Orange Juliuses — but not for long.

“We are discontinuing our frozen products and exiting the frozen can category in response to shifting consumer preferences,” a Coca-Cola spokesperson said.

“With the juice category growing strongly, we’re focusing on products that better match what our consumers want.

The process to make juice concentrate was invented by the research team C. D. Atkins, Edwin Moore and Louis MacDowell in the 1940s.

According to the Minute Maid website, back in 1946, the then-called Vacuum Foods Corporation shipped the first frozen concentrated orange juice product in the U.S., which the company named Minute Maid.

And now, Minute Maid’s cans of frozen concentrate are history, too. »

North Carolina man broke into Little Caesars after closing time and started making and selling pizzas, cops say

Authored by the-independent.com
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A man in North Carolina has been charged with multiple felonies after he allegedly broke into a Little Caesars pizza shop after it had closed and began making and selling pizzas.

“The Kinston Police Department ... responded to Little Caesars in reference to a breaking and entering.

open image in gallery A former employee of the Little Caesars in Kinston, North Carolina, allegedly broke into the store to bake and sell pizzas. »

Mount Fuji cherry blossom festival cancelled over fears of visitors behaving badly

Authored by uk.news.yahoo.com
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The city government in Yamanashi prefecture said on 3 February that it would not stage the annual Arakurayama Sengen Park Cherry Blossom Festival this year.

The festival, which has been organised for about a decade, typically draws around 200,000 visitors who come to photograph Mount Fuji framed by blooming cherry blossoms and a five-storey pagoda.

Mount Fuji is seen from the Arakura Fuji Sengen Shrine in Fujiyoshida city, Yamanashi prefecture, on 22 April 2021 (AFP via Getty). »

North Korea: teenagers ‘executed for watching Squid Game’ as regime wages war on K-Drama and K-Pop

Authored by amnesty.org.uk
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“These testimonies show how North Korea is enforcing dystopian laws that mean watching a South Korean TV show can cost you your life – unless you can afford to pay.

“The authorities criminalise access to information in violation of international law, then allow officials to profit off those fearing punishment.

In 2021, The Korea Times reported that North Korean teenagers were caught and punished for listening to BTS. »