Bushfires rage across four Australian states
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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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Wildfires raged across the western United States on Sunday as firefighters scrambled to prevent flames from spreading across rugged terrain thick with tinder turned bone-dry by scorching weather.
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Tornadoes rip across four US states, causing death and destruction
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Firefighters try to stop a blaze spreading as three homes in one street are alight and four people are reported injured.
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More than 3,000 firefighters are battling to contain some of Australia's worst wildfires in 70 years,  as flames fanned by strong winds threatened homes in Victoria state.
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protesting against the death of a man in custody burnt down a police station, police residence and a courthouse. northeast coast, said Queensland state police minister Judy Spence.
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Some 35,000 people have fled their homes as forest wildfires force a state of emergency in southern California.
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Deadly tornadoes tear across four Southern states in a deadly spasm of rare violent winter weather.
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Fires in southern Greece blamed on high temperatures, drought and arsonists.
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Blistering heat and hot dry winds have fanned the fires. Forests fires that have ravaged southern Europe during the past month were some of the worst on record, the European Commission has said. via Jackaranda
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ADELAIDE, Australia  - 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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Forest fires that have killed at least 46 people continued to burn out of control, leaving some villages trapped within walls of flames.
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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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Heavy rains caused flooding across parts  of eastern Australia on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of  hundreds of people as rural towns throughout the area were put  on flood alert.
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Hundreds of thousands of native  Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been  killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Australia  in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
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Three people remain missing as Australia begins  a massive cleanup operation after its worst bushfires in more than 20 years killed at least nine, among them children, police said.