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Perth bushfire: Australia tells thousands to leave homes

03 Feb 2021

Strong winds threatening to fan a bushfire prompted Australia on Wednesday to urge thousands of people to leave their homes in the provincial capital of Perth, complicating a lockdown after...

Residents flee, find shelter as bushfire nears South Australian town

11 Jan 2021

Residents of a small town in South Australia state were warned to seek shelter on Monday as firefighters were called in to battle a fast-moving grassfire. Locals in Lucindale, a...

Southern California fire forces nearly 8,000 to evacuate

02 Aug 2020

Nearly 8,000 residents of Riverside County in Southern California were forced to evacuate their homes on Saturday as a wildfire spread uncontained across more than 4,000 acres, the...

Estimated 3 billion animals affected by Australia bushfires: Study

28 Jul 2020

Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia's unprecedented 2019-20 wildfires in "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history", according to a report released Tuesday. ...

Chaotic Barcelona trying to make up for Messi’s lost time

07 Feb 2020

Lionel Messi admitted in December he could soon retire but Barcelona’s frenzied attempts to make the most of his final years appear to be having the opposite effect. As...

Heatwave renews bushfire worries for Australia

30 Jan 2020

Australia was bracing for a heatwave to sweep across the country's fire-ravaged southeast in the coming days, with the forecast stoking fears the soaring temperatures could inflame bushfires. Australia firefighters...

Why is Prince Harry being singled out for making a decision that ordinary people make as part of their lives?

28 Jan 2020

Agnelo Rodrigues, Staff Reporter At 35, has Prince Harry erred in leaving the abode of his ancestors to make a ‘better life’ with his wife and son? Seriously, has he?...

Three dead US fire bombers retrieved from Australian forest

25 Jan 2020

The bodies of three US flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire crisis were retrieved on Saturday as...

Australia bushfires contribute to big rise in global CO2 levels

24 Jan 2020

Australia's bushfires are contributing to one of the biggest annual increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere since record-keeping began more than 60 years ago, according...

Humanitarian situation in Syria is overwhelming

22 Jan 2020

Zaher Sahloul, The Independent I stood in the muddy field of one of the 1,150 camps for the internally displaced people in Idlib. It was raining and the mud was...

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