Fire ravages South Korea landmark
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A 600-year-old gate considered South Korea's greatest national treasure is partly destroyed by fire.
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A fire has destroyed Namdaemun, South Korea's oldest wooden structure and a national treasure, fire officials said Monday.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday.    The Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified source in Beijing, said the explosion happened Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China...
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A spectacular fire destroyed a vacant, century-old warehouse early Wednesday, injuring three firefighters and forcing some people to evacuate nearby apartments.
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Forty people were killed Monday and ten others injured following a fierce blaze in a South Korean refrigerated warehouse, firefighters and reports said.
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South Korean officials said Tuesday they were trying to verify North Korea&#39;s claim that a huge explosion last week was caused by the demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project.
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Fire and explosions ripped through a nearly completed cold storage warehouse south of Seoul on Monday, killing 40 workers
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.
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The Burning Man effigy, whose torching marks the highlight of the annual eponymous countercultural festival in the Nevada desert, was set on fire prematurely with arson suspected, organizers said on Tuesday.
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Foreign diplomats who visited the site  of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said on Friday it was  a hydroelectric project under heavy construction, but South  Korea insisted the blast took place elsewhere.
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A fire destroys the upper portion of one of the tallest buildings in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Vandals tried to set fire to a giant straw goat in central Sweden but failed to burn down the traditional Christmas monument, which has been soaked with flame-resistant chemicals, officials said Friday.
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Fire swept through a historical downtown church early Friday, collapsing its steeple and flicking off embers that ignited three other buildings. Arson was not suspected, a fire official said.
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A STUBBORN fire raged for more than five hours hours on the 29th floor of a historic downtown Chicago skyscraper, shooting flames from windows and sending at least 37 people
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Fire crews in Londonderry are tackling a huge blaze which has caused extensive damage at a retail park.
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South Korean police said on Tuesday they arrested a man who confessed to burning down a 600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one national treasure because he was angry about a compensation payment.
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A fire damaged Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial office in a building overlooking the White House on Wednesday and forced hundreds of government workers to evacuate.