Nine dead in Australia's deadliest bushfires for 20 years
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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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Thousands of firefighters rushed to contain more than a dozen wildfires burning across southern Australia on Friday amid fears that high temperatures and gusty winds forecast this weekend could further stoke the blazes, threatening farms and towns.
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PETER CAVE: Ten Australian citizens and permanent residents have been confirmed dead, a dozen are officially missing, while as many as 5,000 are still unaccounted for since the tsunamis hit on Boxing Day.
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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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SHAHE, CHINA - Nine people were confirmed dead and 57 remained missing late Sunday after a fire swept through five iron ore mines in northern China, the Xinhau news agency said.
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Firefighters brought Australia's  deadliest bushfires in 20 years under control on Wednesday  after nine people died in the blazes.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., June 19 -- Fire swept through a furniture warehouse, collapsing its roof and killing nine firefighters inside in the nation's deadliest single disaster for firefighters since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Australia's worst storm in 30 years has lashed the country's east coast, killing at least seven people and leaving a trail of destruction, writes Barbara McMahon in Sydney.
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Firefighters brought Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years under control on Wednesday after nine people died in the blazes.
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At least five people are now confirmed dead as wild storms continue to batter eastern Australia, officials say.
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Two adults and one child are killed as bushfires engulf a convoy of trucks in Western Australia.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - At least nine people  were killed and 200 injured when a fire erupted in a crowded  nightclub in central Buenos Aires, police said on Friday.
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Thousands of Australian firefighters are battling to save three small towns from bushfires that have ravaged an area larger than Luxembourg and destroyed 18 homes.
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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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A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital  killed nine people and wounded 16, local media reported on  Sunday, just over a day after a blaze at a hospital in Moscow  killed 45 women.
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AT least nine miners were confirmed dead and rescue teams were battling to reach a further 57 trapped underground after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China, officials and media said today.
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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.