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8 killed, 2 missing, many hurt in tissue factory fire
News, Online Reporters, Published on 01/07/2025
» SARABURI - Eight people were reported dead in the tissue-paper factory fire in Nong Khae district on Monday, with search and rescue teams still looking for two missing workers.
France expecting peak temperatures as heatwave hits Europe
AFP, Published on 01/07/2025
» PARIS - Paris was on red alert for high temperatures on Tuesday, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and speed restrictions in place as a searing heatwave gripped Europe.
Southern Europe roasts as temperatures soar
AFP, Published on 30/06/2025
» ROME - Spain and Portugal reported record temperatures Monday as Italy and France braced for several more days of a punishing heatwave that has gripped southern Europe and Britain, sparking health and wildfire warnings.
Workers injured, missing as paper factory burns in Saraburi
News, Online Reporters, Published on 30/06/2025
» SARABURI – Twenty-two workers were reported injured, and others were unaccounted for, after fire raced through a large tissue-paper factory at the Hemaraj industrial estate in Nong Khae district on Monday. The number of injured was later reduced to seven.
Cold baths, climate shelters as Southern Europe heatwave intensifies
AFP, Published on 29/06/2025
» ROME - Authorities across Southern Europe urged people to seek shelter Sunday and protect the most vulnerable as punishing temperatures from Spain to Portugal, Italy and France climbed higher in the summer's first major heatwave.
Europe bakes in summer’s first heatwave
AFP, Published on 28/06/2025
» MARSEILLE - Southern Europeans braced on Saturday for the first heatwave of the northern hemisphere summer, as climate change pushes thermometers on the world’s fastest-warming continent increasingly into the red.
Heatwave across Mediterranean sparks fire warnings
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» PARIS - Southern European countries braced on Friday for a punishing weekend heatwave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and beyond, prompting health warnings for residents and tourists plus fears of wildfires.
Ship carrying EVs abandoned in Pacific after catching fire
Bloomberg News, Published on 04/06/2025
» NEW YORK -- A ship carrying about 3,000 cars to Mexico has been abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after catching fire on Tuesday.
Thousands flee Manitoba wildfires in Canada
AFP, Published on 29/05/2025
» OTTAWA - More than 17,000 people in the midwestern Canadian province of Manitoba were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to a wildfire season in years.
Fire continues to rage at Bangkok furniture plant
Online Reporters, Published on 12/05/2025
» A fire that began on Sunday evening continued to burn at a large furniture plant in Bangkok's Lat Krabang district on Monday. Nearby communities have been evacuated.