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Lisbon (AFP) Sept 8, 2016 - Portugal's Algarve tourist region was the latest to be hit by violent forest fires Thursday, prompting the evacuation of a luxury hotel and three hamlets, officials said.
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Lisbon (AFP) Sept 6, 2025 - Hundreds of firefighters battled fresh wildfires in Portugal and Spain on Saturday, civil protection authorities said, following a summer of devastating blazes in the region.
Jun 26, 2026
Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 1, 2022 - Hundreds of firefighters endured triple-digit temperatures Thursday battling against a wildfire along a major highway, as the western United States bakes under a fearsome heat dome.
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Windhoek (AFP) Sept 29, 2025 - A massive fire that has scorched through more than a third of Namibia's best-known national park has been contained, the environment minister said Monday.
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Lytton, Canada (AFP) Sept 14, 2021 - On the front lines of global warming, evacuees from Lytton, a western Canadian village destroyed by wildfires in June, are detached and bitter about the upcoming September 20 snap elections.
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Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 14, 2015 - Devastating wildfires laid waste to miles of land around California's scenic wine country, reducing hundreds of homes and businesses to smoldering ruins and leaving one person feared dead.
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Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP) Sept 13, 2008 - At least six people have been killed in southern Nepal in rampages by wild elephants in the last two days, police said Saturday.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 14, 2012 - Wild animals including bears, wolves and jackals are on the increase in Switzerland, a government agency said Friday, as it reported a spike in the figures across the country.
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Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 - The co-founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, on Tuesday slammed whistleblower WikiLeaks over its release of Afghan war documents which he said could get people killed.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2017 - Liu Xia, the widow of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo who died in detention in July, is back in Beijing but still under house arrest, a Hong Kong NGO said Sunday.
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Taipei (AFP) Sept 10, 2017 - The wife of a Taiwanese rights activist being held in China flew to the mainland Sunday on the eve of his trial in a case that has further soured cross-strait relations.
Jun 26, 2026
Mexico City (AFP) Sept 21, 2020 - Protests over a decades-old water-sharing treaty have shaken northern Mexico, where farmers seized a dam to try to prevent the country from supplying the neighboring United States.
Jun 26, 2026
New York (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 - Pakistan's catastrophic floods have led to renewed calls for rich polluting nations, which grew their economies through heavy use of fossil fuels, to compensate developing countries for the devastating impacts caused by the climate crisis.
Jun 26, 2026
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 11, 2020 - The Pantanal, the world's biggest tropical wetlands, is burning at record-shattering pace this year as drought-fueled fires devastate its vegetation and celebrated wildlife in an environmental catastrophe.
Jun 26, 2026
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 27, 2024 - A record wave of wildfires, fueled by severe drought linked to climate change and deforestation, is causing havoc across South America.
Jun 26, 2026
Houston - Sept. 4, 2001 - It is difficult to speculate where this new biology may lead. We may learn to apply universal principles of biology to better understand our own type of life and to do such things as develop artificial cells, tissues and organs that might be better suited for certain purposes as compared to those that can be engineered based only on terrestrial principles.
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