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BREAKING NEWS New forest fires kill three, threaten towns, near French Riviera coast LA GARDE FREINET, France (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 Fast-moving new forest and brush fires killed three people, destroyed several dozen houses and forced the evacuation of thousands from towns near the French Riviera coast, emergency services said on Tuesday, while a local official said that some of the fires may have been set deliberately. France forest blazes kill at least three, thousands evacuated LA GARDE FREINET, France (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 Several thousand people spent the night Tuesday in temporary shelters after raging forest and brush fires in southeastern France killed at least three people and forced the evacuation of two towns, emergency services said. France forest blazes kill four, leading to evacuation of thousands LA GARDE FREINET, France (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 Several thousand people spent the night Tuesday in temporary shelters after raging forest and brush fires in southeastern France killed four people and forced the evacuation of two towns, emergency services said. |
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Chirac promises severe punishment for French forest fire arsonists PAPEETE (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 French President Jacques Chirac said Monday arsonists responsible for deadly forest fires in the south of France that have left four dead would face "exceptionally severe" punishment. Death toll in French forest fires rises to four LA GARDE FREINET, France (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 A fourth victim of brush and forest fires raging in southeastern France has been found by firefighters, an official said. France forest fires kill three, force evacuation of thousands LA GARDE FREINET, France (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 Several thousand people were spending the night Tuesday in temporary shelters after raging forest and brush fires in southeastern France killed three people and forced the evacuation of two towns, emergency services said. Environmentalists take aim at GM's civilian version of US military Humvee WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 US environmentalists launched a Web site Monday targeting General Motors Corp's Hummer H2, the civilian version of the US military's gas-thirsty Humvee vehicle, for its fuel economy and hulking size. US launches new campaign to fight illegal logging in developing world WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 29, 2003 The United States on Monday launched a new initiative to combat illegal logging in the developing world that is said to cost poor countries between 10 billion and 15 billion dollars per year in revenue as well as devastating environmental damage. Forest fire kills three in southeast France, 1,5000 evacuated LA GARDE FREINET, France (AFP) Jul 28, 2003 A forest fire killed three people, two of them Britons, in southeastern France Monday, the first victims of brush fires which have swept across wide swathes of French forest land this year, emergency services said. |
Forest fire kills three in southeast France LA GARDE FREINET, France (AFP) Jul 28, 2003 A forest fire killed three people in southeastern France on Monday, the first victims of the brush fires that have wrecked swathes of French forest land this year, emergency services said. Firefighters battle huge fire in northern Portugal LISBON (AFP) Jul 28, 2003 More than 200 firefighters were struggling Monday to contain a huge forest fire in northern Portugal, media reported. Tanzania's dugong population at risk of extinction: WWF NAIROBI (AFP) Jul 28, 2003 Conservation group WWF warned Monday that the dugong, a large herbivorous sea mammal, was on the verge of extinction in Tanzania, where many of the animals are dying as a result of entanglement in fishermen's nets. Spanish say no French intervention over Prestige course MADRID (AFP) Jul 28, 2003 The Spanish government on Monday denied newspaper reports that France had intervened to alter the course of the stricken Prestige oil tanker before it sank off Galicia last November, causing an ecological catastrophe. 50 killed in floods in southern Pakistan KARACHI (AFP) Jul 28, 2003 At least 50 people have died in torrential rains that have lashed southern Pakistan's Sindh province for the past five days, flooding around 5,000 villages, officials said Monday. Global warming a weapon of mass destruction, scientist says LONDON (AFP) Jul 28, 2003 Human induced global climate change is a weapon of mass destruction at least as dangerous as nuclear, chemical or biological arms, a leading British climate scientist said Monday. |
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