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Two arrested, charged for deadly Oakland warehouse fire

TwomenwerearrestedMondayandchargedforcriminaloffensesinconnectionwithawarehousefirelatelastyearinOakland,NorthernCalifornia,thatkilled36people.DistrictAttorney(

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Cygnus departs ISS for more in-space experiments

OrbitalATK'sautomatedcargospacecraft,Cygnus,wassuccessfullyunberthedfromtheInternationalSpaceStationonSunday,beginningitsexperimentalmissionsbeforeitreentersEar

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8 dead, 9 injured in petrochemical plant explosion

RescuershaveretrievedafurthersevenbodiesfollowinganexplosionatapetrochemicalcompanyineasternChina'sShandongProvinceMondaymorning,bringingthedeathtolltoeight.Aso

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1 dead, 6 injured, 7 missing in petrochemical plant explosion in China

Onepersonhasbeenconfirmeddead,sixareinjuredandanothersevenmissingafteranexplosionatapetrochemicalcompanyineastChina'sShandongProvinceMondaymorning,accordingtolo

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Driver starts school bus blaze in E China, killing 13

Afatalschoolbusfirethatkilled11childrenandtwoadultsineasternChina'sShandongProvinceonMay9wasallegedlystartedbythebusdriver,whoalsodied,policesaidFriday.The11chi

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Arson suspected in school bus fire that killed 13 in E China

LocalauthoritiesonFridaysaidtheysuspectafatalbusfireineastChina'sShandongProvincewasstartedbythebusdriver,Xinhuareported.Elevenchildren,agedbetweenthreeandsix,a

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Fire put out in north China's Tianjin Port

A fire that was raging at a paper company in north China's Tianjin Port for 12 hours has finally been put out, the authorities said Thursday.

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Fire put out in north China's Tianjin Port

AfirethatwasragingatapapercompanyinnorthChina'sTianjinPortfor12hourshasfinallybeenputout,theauthoritiessaidThursday.Thefirestartedaround7:20p.m.Wednesdayinthego

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Man held for setting fire to magazine on Japan's Shinkansen bullet train

AmanwasheldbythepoliceforsettingfiretoamagazineinaShinkansenbullettraininOkayama,westernJapanonFriday,localmediareported.Theman,inhis70s,putamagazineonhisseaton

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Indonesian rescuers recover lives onboard ship caught by fire

JAKARTA,May20(APD)–Ajointrescueroperationmanagedtosavemorethan100livesonboardapassengershipservingEastJavaandEastKalimantanprovinces’capitalsaftertheshipwascaug

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DPRK supreme leader supervises ballistic rockets launch drills

Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has supervised a ballistic rocket launching drill of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on spot, said the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Tuesday.

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Three killed in fire at abandoned Melbourne factory

Three people have died in a suspicious fire that tore through an abandoned factory in Melbourne, Australia.

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At least 10 dead in east China hotel fire

​At least 10 people were killed in a hotel fire Saturday morning in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, firefighters said.

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Huge fire erupts at waste recycling factory in Sydney, no injuries so far

More than 100 firefighters from 24 different fire crews across Sydney responded to an industrial blaze on Thursday morning, that has left a huge plume of smoke, visible for 25 km across the city.

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Nearly 100 bushfires raging in Australia's New South Wales state

Rural areas of Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state have been evacuated as wildfires rage across the state, threatening homes and closing roads.

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15,000 residents lose homes in Manila shantytown blaze

Authorities say 15,000 residents of a shantytown beside Manila’s port have lost their homes in a fire that raged overnight before being put out Wednesday morning.

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Fire at oil plant in western Japan forces 3,000 people to evacuate

​A fire broke out at an oil refinery in western Japan on Sunday, forcing nearly 3,000 local residents to evacuate, local media reported.