Natural disasters
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Myanmar Quake Victim Rescued After 5 Days as Aid Calls Grow
Dazed and dusty but conscious, the man was pulled through a hole in the rubble and put on a stretcher, video posted on Facebook by the Myanmar Fire Services Department showed.
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Myanmar Holds Minute of Silence for More Than 2,000 Quake Dead
Outside the Sky Villa apartment complex, one of the city’s worst-hit disaster sites, rescue workers stopped and lined up with hands clasped behind their backs to pay their respects.
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Woman Rescued Alive From Collapsed Mandalay Apartment Block: AFP
Applause rang out as Phyu Lay Khaing, 30, was brought out of the Sky Villa Condominium by rescuers and carefully removed from the rubble by stretcher.
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UK Announces £10 Million for Myanmar Quake Relief
The UK pledged £10 million ($12.9 million) in humanitarian aid for Myanmar on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people and caused widespread damage in the war-torn country.
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Massive Quake Kills Nearly 150 in Myanmar, Thailand
The shallow 7.7-magnitude early afternoon tremor hit northwest of the city of Sagaing in central Myanmar, and was followed minutes later by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock.
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Japan Wildfire Evacution Orders Partially Lifted
The fire had raged in the mountains around the northern city of Ofunato for over a week, killing one person and forcing more than 4,200 residents to flee their homes.
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Gov’t Launches Ksh2.8 Billion Forest Firefighting Initiative To Combat Wildfires
The new equipment includes high-tech fire trucks, drones, and a control hub to help protect key forests like the Mau, Aberdares, and Mt. Kenya.
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Japan’s Worst Wildfire in Half a Century Spreads
As of Tuesday morning, the wildfire had engulfed around 2,600 hectares (6,400 acres), the fire and disaster management agency said — over seven times the area of New York’s Central Park.
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Mamlaka ya hali ya hewa Tanzania yatangaza uwepo wa kimbunga Dikeledi
Kwa sasa, kimbunga hicho hakiashirii uwezekano wa kusababisha athari za moja kwa moja hapa nchini. Hata hivyo, kutokana na ukaribu wa maeneo ambayo kimbunga “DIKELEDI” kipo sambamba na maeneo ya kusini mwa nchi yetu, upo…
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Whole Streets Burn as Fires Rage Around Los Angeles
Up to 1,500 buildings have burned in fires that have broken out around America’s second biggest city, forcing over 100,000 people from their homes.
