Eight die in Australia bush fires
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At least eight people die in bush fires sweeping through South Australia
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Two dozen firefighters died last year battling wildfires across the nation, a number that has increased in the face of drier summers and increased job pressures.
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Large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are covered by thick smog from Indonesian bush fires.
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Firefighters contained a wildfire that killed nine people and left three others missing, the nation's deadliest blaze in more than two decades, officials said Thursday.
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Wildfires on the island of Tasmania have destroyed at least 22 houses Monday, a local official said.
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Three firefighters died Wednesday while battling a blaze in a forest on the Greek island of Crete, while the government warned that hot weather could cause more blazes.
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Terrified residents had to leap into the sea to escape a raging wildfire that killed at least 10 people in southern Australia, emergency officials said Wednesday.
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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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Fires raging in the Australian state of Victoria have destroyed more than 20 homes and some blazes merged in a new threat to townships.  The fires have burned about 2,000 square miles of northeast Victoria and the Gippsland area further south.
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Eight people were killed and dozens injured in Australia&#39;s worst rail crash in 30 years Tuesday when a passenger train collided with a huge truck at a level crossing, police said.
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Dozens of wildfires burning Tuesday across southern Australia destroyed more than a dozen homes and a popular ski lodge, while residents in a suburb of the western city of Perth were urged to flee an approaching blaze.
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Eight people, including six police officers, have been treated in hospital after a suspicious fire at a blcok of flats.
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ADELAIDE, Australia  - At least five people were  killed Tuesday when a bushfire burned out of control across a  southern Australia peninsula and an unknown number of others  leapt into the sea to escape the fire, police said.
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The death toll in bushfires sweeping South Australia state rose to 10 after two more bodies were found on the state's Eyre Peninsula, police said.
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Firefighters say they are prepared for the worst in their battle against bushfires burning out of control across the Australian state of Victoria.
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Forest fires sweeping Greece  have killed 44 people in two days and more were feared dead in  villages cut off by towering flames on Saturday in what the  government called a national tragedy.
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A blaze in a crowded nightclub in central Buenos Aires killed at least 88 people and injured 260, the city&#39;s mayor said on Friday.