Five Dead in Australia Fire, Others Leap Into Sea
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ADELAIDE, Australia  - At least five people were  killed Tuesday when a bushfire burned out of control across a  southern Australia peninsula and an unknown number of others  leapt into the sea to escape the fire, police said.
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Malaysian Police confirmed that five people were killed by a tsunami tidal wave that struck the coast in Penang following a powerful earthquake in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra Sunday morning.
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Nine people were confirmed dead and 15 unaccounted for in Australia's deadliest bushfires for 20 years as firefighters battled blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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At least five people have been killed  in severe floods in Indonesia's capital and surrounding areas  with more than 100,000 left homeless after days of torrential  rain, a disaster official said on Saturday.
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At least 11 people died after a fire on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with some desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea, a navy official and a survivor said.
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JAKARTA - At least 500 people were killed and hundreds more were missing feared dead Sunday after a huge earthquake off northern Indonesia triggered giant tidal waves and flash floods across western Asia.
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At least five people are dead and three are missing after China's east coast is hit by Typhoon Wipha.
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A fire that broke out on an Indonesian ferry on Thursday, killing six people, has been put out, the navy said.
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A volunteer firefighter is killed and at least 20 homes destroyed as fires continue to burn in Australia.
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The Crocoseum was bursting at the seams Wednesday morning in   Australia as more than 5,000 people gathered to celebrate the life of   conservationist, adventurer and devoted family man Steve Irwin.
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Scores of firefighters Friday contained two bushfires which have destroyed four homes and burned through about 1,000 hectares of land in west Australia, emergency officials said.
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Three people died in two trucks when they apparently were caught in a huge wildfire in western Australia's Outback hours after authorities reopened the highway running through the affected area, police said Monday.
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Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia. Two people whose car was swept off a bridge were killed, and a family of five was missing.
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Fire engulfed an Indonesian ferry with more than 350 passengers on board off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, the navy said in a statement. The Levina I was on its way to Bangka island off Sumatra when it caught fire soon after dawn 50 miles from Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port.
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PETER CAVE: Ten Australian citizens and permanent residents have been confirmed dead, a dozen are officially missing, while as many as 5,000 are still unaccounted for since the tsunamis hit on Boxing Day.
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An inquest is to start into the deaths of six tourists, including two from south Wales, in an Australian hostel fire.
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Around 25 people are feared dead after a fire ripped through a home for disabled people in the town of Alsunga in western Latvia overnight, officials said Friday.