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Firefighters were on Tuesday battling Japan’s worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the evacuation of nearly 4,000 local residents. White smoke billowed from…

At least 17 children died after a fire ripped through their primary school dormitory overnight in central Kenya, police said Friday. The blaze in Nyeri County’s Hillside Endarasha Academy broke…

Firefighters are battling a strong forest fire in the Aegean resort city of Izmir for a third day, Turkish officials said Saturday, with hundreds more people evacuated overnight. Helicopters and…

The fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant comes less than a week after Ukraine’s forces launched their largest incursion into Russian territory since the war started in 2022. Russian…

At least 40 migrants have died and several others were injured after a boat they were traveling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said…