Building Fire in Eastern China Kills 17
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BEIJING - A fire swept through a two-story building of shops and apartments in eastern China on Sunday, killing at least 17 people, state media reported.
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More than 17,000 people were urged to flee their homes on the outskirts of Raleigh early Friday after a thunderous series of explosions and a raging fire at a hazardous-waste disposal plant released a plume of thick black smoke and a yellow cloud of noxious gases.
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A fire at a hotel in China's Zhejiang province leaves 11 people dead and four more injured.
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A fire destroyed an apartment building in the southern Russian region of Tuva Wednesday, killing 18 people and injuring at least 18 others, an emergency official said.
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Two wildfires in Hunan Province in central China killed at least seven people.  One fire was set by villagers burning weeds in Hengyang to allow trees to grow back, Xinhua, the official government news agency, reported.
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A fire at an illegal shoe factory in southeastern China killed 36 people and injured at least 20, authorities said Monday
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Forest fires raced across southern Greece on Friday, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 17 people, two found locked in an embrace and others outside cars overtaken by the flames.
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MOSCOW  - The death toll from a devastating fire stood at 26 after emergency workers finished clearing up the ruins of a wooden apartment building that burned to the ground in Siberia, officials said Saturday.
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A fire at a detention center killed 10 people and injured 17 others, mostly Chinese, who were waiting deportation for illegal entry to the country, a fire department official said Sunday.
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Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 26 people and left 17 missing in southwest China's Sichuan province in the last week, state media reported Sunday.
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MULHOUSE, France: A gas explosion tore through a five-storey apartment building, killing 17 people and injuring another 15 in eastern France, authorities said yesterday.
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The death toll from a fire that swept  through an iron mine complex in the northern Chinese province  of Hebei rose to 57, with three miners still missing, Xinhua  news agency said on Monday.
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The most severe attack happened near the Oil Ministry building and a nearby police academy, killing 17 people. Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said most of the casualties were passersby, including seven women.
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A gas explosion Sunday killed 17 people and injured at least 40 others in eastern Algeria, the official APS news agency reported.
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Several explosions struck a field in the eastern part of Gaza City, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, hospital officials said.
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A tornado swept across eastern China,  killing 14 people and injuring 146, state media reported on  Wednesday, the latest casualties from bad weather that has  devastated parts of the country this summer.
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57 miners have died in a fire at five connected iron ore mines in northern China. The fire started last Saturday in a privately run mine in Shahe city, and rapidly spread to four other mines nearby, trapping 106 people working underground.