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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.
Canada far north city ordered to evacuate as wildfires advance
AFP, Published on 17/08/2023
» OTTAWA - Residents of one of the largest cities in Canada's far north were ordered Wednesday to flee amid warnings that raging wildfires could reach it by the weekend.
Military airlifts provide escape as wildfires sweep Canada's far north
AFP, Published on 16/08/2023
» MONTREAL - Jordan Evoy's escape from wildfires raging in Canada's far north was the "scariest moment" of his life as flareups closed roads, forcing him to backtrack to catch a military flight out in the Northwest Territories' largest ever evacuation.
Chileans who survived deadly forest fire fear flames will return
AFP, Published on 06/02/2023
» SANTA JUANA (CHILE) - Maria Ines Hernandez described forest fires ravaging central Chile with the death so far of 24 people as hell on earth.
Mexican migrant tragedy: A Guatemalan mother's grief
AFP, Published on 14/12/2021
» CHAJUL (GUATEMALA) - Giovani Raymundo, 18, kissed his mother goodbye last week, setting off before sunrise from their remote Guatemalan village on a dangerous journey in search of work and a better future.
Raging wildfire forces evacuation of major US tourist spot
AFP, Published on 31/08/2021
» SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (UNITED STATES) - Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate Monday as a huge wildfire loomed over a major US tourist spot, filling the air with choking smoke.
Two dead in Australia bushfires
AFP, Published on 09/11/2019
» FORSTER, Australia: Catastrophic bushfires have killed at least two people and forced thousands from their homes in eastern Australia, with the death toll expected to rise as firefighters struggle toward hard-to-reach communities.
Duterte allies seek to dominate Philippine midterm polls
Associated Press, Published on 12/05/2019
» MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's name is not on the ballot but Monday's midterm elections are seen as a crucial referendum on his rise to power with a brutal crackdown on illegal drugs, unorthodox style and contentious embrace of China.
Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia's farmers fight debt bondage
AFP, Published on 02/01/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty of Cambodia's farmers.
'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights' star Burt Reynolds dies
AFP, Published on 07/09/2018
» LOS ANGELES - Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed heart-throb of 1970s cinema who won acclaim in "Deliverance" and a host of awards later in his career for "Boogie Nights," died on Thursday, his family announced.