THE STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS by Jack London Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the centre of the city. Its businesses are gone. The factori

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The U.S. Pacific Northwest is in the midst of what's called wildfire season. The dry, warm summer is coming in the region, make conditions right for fires to flare up and the breezes that blow parts of Oregon in particular can cause the flames to spr

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By Nina Maria Potts Athens 05 September 2007 spared by the recent wildfires. But as the government takes stock of the human and economic cost of the wildfires that ravaged large parts of the country, the question of how many archaeological sites hav

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 02 February 2006 Liberia's new president has fired the entire staff of the country's finance ministry, amid efforts to fight corruption in her post-war administration. Ellen

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By Greg Flakus San Antonio, Texas 06 January 2006 Dry conditions and high winds are making life difficult for firefighters in Texas, where wildfires continue to threaten life and property in various p

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Somalia's prime minister has fired the influential mayor of the country's capital, Mogadishu. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Somalia's president has not publicly signed off on the action, raising concerns about gro

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Fire authorities from around the world have been meeting in Australia to learn from the devastating bush fires in the southern state of Victoria earlier this year. Firefighters using mobile tanker trucks work to keep fire under control at containmen

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Summer wildfires continue to rage across forests on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Spain and Greece are also dealing with blazes. Italian and French authorities have detained a number of people suspected of starting the forest fi

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By Brian Padden Anchorage, Alaska 10 August 2006 watch Alaskans Feel Heat Native Alaskans have seen many changes in the last century. Many have been converted by Christian missionaries. Their hand-made canoes have been replaced by motorboats. And th

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For a country not currently fighting a full-blown war, North Korea fires an awful lot of missiles. Last night, North Korea's military fired a series of missiles into the sea near Japan. NPR's Elise Hu reports. ELISE HU, BYLINE: J

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In an extraordinary move, the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts, has released a statement rebuking President Trump for comments he made yesterday disparaging a federal judge. Within hours, Trump fired back on Twitt

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Northern India has some of the worst air quality in the world. This month, pollution in the capital, New Delhi, hit 20 times what the World Health Organization considers safe. Make a list of the world's 10 most polluted cities an

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Some 500 fires continue to blaze across Russia. The flames have created toxic fumes in the capital of Moscow. Several embassies, including those belonging to the United States and Canada, have evacuated all non-emergency personnel due to the many hea

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By Robert Raffaele Washington, D.C. 04 August 2006 Watch Middle East report Hezbollah fired dozens more rockets into northern Israel Friday, while Israeli warplanes continued to pound southern Lebanon. The latest Israeli offensive is again targeting

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 09 October 2006 Malaysia has issued a hazard warning for ships sailing in the Malacca Strait because of a thick haze from bush fires in Indonesia that is blanketing parts of the region, and cutting visibility. Strait

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 09 August 2007 South African President Thabo Mbeki has fired the outspoken Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge following reports of an unauthorized visit to an AIDS conference in Spain. However, as VOA's D

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By Jeffrey Young Washington 17 April 2007 To most Americans, the governments in their towns and regional areas called counties are the governments they interact with the most. And alongside these local governments are groups of citizens who work on

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 13 October 2006 Collins report - Download 334k Listen to Collins report Environment ministers from ASEAN countries at the beginning of their meeting on the annual haze problem, Oct. 13, 2006 Southeast Asian environmen

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A Trump appointee running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has disbanded a consumer advisory board, and that board helped the bureau identify unfair practices at financial companies. Consumer advocates say they have b

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