Iraq sulphur fire breaks records
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A fire at an Iraqi sulphur plant has caused the largest man-made release of sulphur ever recorded, scientists say.
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A fire broke out at Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, triggering explosions at a depot storing chemicals, a Dubai civil defence official said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  -- Alaska&#39;s spreading wildfires broke the 5 million-acre mark and were poised Tuesday to make the 2004 state wildfire season the worst ever recorded.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 22--The number of civilians killed in Iraq last month reached a record 3,709, most of them the result of sectarian violence, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
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A large fire was blazing in Najaf Saturday after a series of blasts and gunfire as a U.S. AC-130 plane circled overhead, a Reuters witness said.
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Roadside bombs in Iraq escalated to record levels this summer -- to  about four times the number of January 2004 -- as tips from Iraqi citizens warning of the bombs and other attacks have dropped sharply amid a flaring of sectarian violence, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
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In a story July 13 about a fire on a tanker unloading at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, The Associated Press erroneously reported the vessel's cargo based on information from a port official. The vessel was carrying liquefied petroleum gas, not liquefied natural gas.
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Iraq continued to export oil at one  million barrels per day on Friday after an attack on the South  Oil Company headquarters took sabotage operations to a new  level, an official at the state-owned entity said.
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Firefighters extinguished a blaze that tore through a chemical storage depot at Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the second fire in two weeks at a cargo port in the Gulf Arab oil exporter.
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Saboteurs have blown up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in northern Iraq. The blast has caused a fire that could take three days to extinguish.
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Â· State accused of bungling as flames claim 57 lives Â· Prime minister admits local forces cannot cope
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BASRA, Iraq  - A pipeline exploded in Iraq's south  Rumaila oil field on Sunday, days after several pipelines in  the same area were sabotaged, a Reuters witness said.
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WASHINGTON -- The number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq in one month surged to its highest level in nearly two years as Americans fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of sectarian violence that US commanders warn could lead to civil war.
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Six Iraqi national guards, 10 civilians wounded in Mosul bomb attacks, mortar shells land near Italian embassy in Baghdad. MOSUL, Iraq - Six Iraqi national guardsmen and 10 civilians were wounded in two bomb
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The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of sectarian violence that U.S. commanders warn could lead to civil war.
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It took fire crews nearly an hour to fight the flames at the pipeline that connects the oil fields in Kirkuk with a refinery. Officials with the oil company&#39;s protection services don&#39;t yet have an estimate of the impact on exports.
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Oil prices set a new record today on concerns over tight winter heating fuel supplies and news that a strike in Nigeria could put some crude exports on hold.