Eight Dead in Australia Fire, Others Forced Into Sea
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At least eight people were killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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Tens of thousands of iconic Australian creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Australia this week, environmentalists say.
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A firestorm razed up to 15 houses and led to the death of a man as bushfires raging across thousands of square kilometers of Australia began overrunning country hamlets, officials said.
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Eight people were confirmed dead and at least seven others were still missing after Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years swept parts of two southern states.
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Eight people are now known to have died in Tuesday's speedboat accident off the eastern coast of Thailand.
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At least 88 people die in a fire at a crowded nightclub in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, officials say.
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Carcasses of dead dolphins and pilot whales strewn on a beach on Australia&#39;s King Island, off Tasmania state on Sunday. A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming onto a beach on the island where
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Thirty-eight people died and 200 were  injured Monday when a faulty electrical heater started a blaze  in a Tehran mosque crowded with worshippers for a major Shi'ite  Muslim festival, Iranian state media reported.
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Eight coal miners were killed after a suspected gas explosion in a mine in southern Poland on Tuesday, and fears were growing as rescuers tried to reach 15 others trapped more than 3,000 underground.Comment
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BEIJING Eight miners have been killed in a fire that broke out in a complex of iron mines in northern China. State media says Chinese rescuers are struggling to find 79 more miners still trapped.
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Bushfires burned across four  Australian states on Tuesday, destroying houses and blackening  an area larger than Luxembourg, with one major fire front  stretching 250 km (155 miles).
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Australians fled to a beach on Thursday to escape a "fireball" burning through their small town toward the sea, as firefighters battled major bushfires across three states and marked homes which could not be saved.
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Crying relatives greeted eight miners rescued Saturday from a burning Siberian gold mine after a raging fire killed at least 21 of their colleagues. Four others were missing and workers searched for them in smoke-filled tunnels.
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Nine people were confirmed dead and 15 unaccounted for in Australia's deadliest bushfires for 20 years as firefighters battled blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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Scores of firefighters Friday contained two bushfires which have destroyed four homes and burned through about 1,000 hectares of land in west Australia, emergency officials said.
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Three people died in two trucks when they apparently were caught in a huge wildfire in western Australia's Outback hours after authorities reopened the highway running through the affected area, police said Monday.
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A firefighter died and more than a dozen houses in two states were razed by wildfires that flared across south-eastern Australia yesterday as high temperatures and blustery winds whipped up massive firestorms.