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Two dead in fire in S.Africa Covid ward

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) -- Two patients died on Tuesday after a fire broke out in the coronavirus ward of…

Iraq health minister resigns over deadly hospital fire

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) -- Iraq's health minister resigned on Tuesday, ten days after a fire in a Baghdad Covid-19 hospital…

Controlled bushfire cloaks Sydney in hazardous smoke

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Sydney was enveloped in a thick bank of hazardous bushfire smoke Monday, forcing authorities in Australia's…

India hospital fire kills 16 Covid patients, 2 nurses

  AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) -- At least 16 Covid-19 patients and two nurses died Saturday in the latest in a…

Record infections overwhelm India’s hospitals

by Bhuvan Bagga with Ammu Kannampilly in Mumbai NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- Delhi hospitals issued desperate appeals for oxygen…

South Africa’s Cape Town blaze ‘under control’

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) -- South Africa's Table Mountain smouldered on Tuesday after a fire swept the iconic site,…

Cape Town blaze almost contained: parks agency

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) -- A sweeping fire on South Africa's iconic Table Mountain that choked Cape Town with…

Residents evacuated as firefighters battle Table Mountain blaze

by Linda GIVETASH CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) -- A blaze advanced along South Africa's iconic Table Mountain toward central…

Cape Town fire guts library, moves closer to city

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) -- A fire in Cape Town has ravaged part of a university library housing a…

12 die, dozens of houses burnt in Nigeria fuel tanker fire

LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP) -- Twelve people were killed and dozens of houses burnt when a fuel tanker overturned, spilled its…

Russia detains two after huge Saint Petersburg fire

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) -- Russia on Tuesday detained two people after a huge fire gutted a historic factory in…

Nepal hit by worst wildfires in almost a decade

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) -- Nepal is experiencing its worst fire season in almost a decade, officials said Tuesday, as huge…

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