Thursday, July 24, 2008
In this photo taken with a mobile phone, South Korean fire fighters examine the wreckage of a crashed helicopter carrying the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, in ...
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Three Firefighters Die, Nine Injured In Shanghai Plastics Factory Fire
An overhead beam crushed three firefighters to death and injured nine others as they fought a fire at a plastic packaging factory on... July 18, 2008 | Topix - Line Of Duty Death | Written By Xinhua News Agency - CEIS |
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Furniture Market Fire Kills Nine, Injures One In N. China
A fire in a furniture market in north China's Hebei Province on Monday killed at least nine people and left one other injured, the l... July 15, 2008 | Topix - Fire | Written By Xinhua News Agency - CEIS |
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Blasts At Uzbek Ammunition Depot Kill 3
A fire at a Soviet-era military base in Uzbekistan spread to an ammunition depot Thursday, igniting a series of powerful explosions t... July 10, 2008 | Topix - Fire | Written By Associated Press |
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Two People Killed In Forest Fire In Turkey
Two Turks were killed in forest fire that broke out in the southern Turkey on Monday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported... July 9, 2008 | Topix - Wildland | Written By Xinhua News Agency - CEIS |
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Japanese Man Drives Car Into City Hall
A man angered by a western Japanese city's welfare policy rammed a car loaded with gas canisters and kerosene into city hall Monday,... June 30, 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Associated Press |
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Forest Fire Burns Near Athens
Greece - A large forest fire on the outskirts of Athens is sending a cloud of smoke over the Greek capital just as power in part of t... June 25, 2008 | Topix - Wildland | Written By Associated Press |
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Japan Quake Death Toll Rises To 12
Police say rescue workers have recovered another body from a landslide triggered by a powerful earthquake in northern Japan, bringing... June 21, 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Associated Press |
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Large Fire Burns 47 Trucks In Spanish Island
A large fire that erupted Saturday in a transportation company in Ibiza, an island 100 km off the east coast of the Spanish mainland,... June 16, 2008 | Topix - Fire | Written By Xinhua News Agency - CEIS |
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Japan Quake Rescuers Fight Aftershocks
Soldiers fought their way through a torrent of mud and rocks at a hot spring Sunday, where several people were believed buried after... June 15, 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Associated Press |
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Fire Burns Down 154 Houses In China's Inner Mongolia
Local authorities said 154 houses were burned down and 390 people affected by a fire that broke out Friday in a state-level protected... June 14, 2008 | Topix - Fire | Written By BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific |
