54 m. ago Jerusalem wildfires latest: Urgent help from Europe arriving in hours as Israel says blaze has burned 5,000 acres

Netanyahu warns fire could reach close to Jerusalem as officials struggle to control it

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2 h. ago Watch: Israeli military tackles blazing wildfires as Jerusalem

Israel’s military and emergency services tackled a raging wildfire as it shut the main highway linking Jerusalem to Tel Aviv on Wednesday, 30 April.

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3 h. ago Israel declares state of emergency with 'largest ever' wildfires raging out of control towards Jerusalem

The Fire and Rescue Service's Jerusalem District commander said firefighters had a long way to go before they could contain the blazes.

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4 h. ago Israel wildfires mapped: Netanyahu declares national emergency as record blaze nears Jerusalem

Fire is being whipped up by strong winds and hot, dry weather

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5 h. ago Several countries sending firefighting planes to Israel to help tackle major wildfire

Several countries are sending firefighting aircraft to Israel as crews battle for a second day to extinguish a wildfire that had shut down a major highway linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and sent drivers scrambling from their cars

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5 h. ago Jerusalem fires latest: Israel declares national emergency and appeals for international aid over ‘largest ever’ wildfires

Netanyahu warns fire could reach close to Jerusalem as officials struggle to control it

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16 h. ago Israel wildfires send 12 people to the hospital and close key Tel Aviv

Many events planned for the country’s memorial day have been cancelled

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17 h. ago Leicester's stance on sacking Ruud van Nistelrooy emerges after setting unwanted record

Leicester City are facing up to another campaign in the Championship after failing to beat the drop - but it remains to be seen if Ruud van Nistelrooy will continue with them or not

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21 h. ago Dozens of firefighters battle huge moorland blaze near Buxton

A large plume of smoke can be seen for miles around

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50 h. ago Tower block residents evacuated as huge inferno at electrical substation fire spreads

Eighty residents have been evacuated after a huge blaze broke out at an electrical substation in Aberdeen Place near Paddington, London this morning.

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2 d. ago ‘Exploitative’ contracts and hazardous conditions: life for some of the immigrants cleaning up wildfire

Advocates say workers risk their health and fear speaking out about conditions amid Trump’s immigration crackdownOn a sunny day in February three workers swept up the piles of ash left behind on an Altadena driveway from when the Eaton fire raged through the Los Angeles neighborhood the month before.The flames of the blaze had consumed nearly every home on the street, leaving only brick chimneys and charred vehicles. Red signs at the entrances of properties warned in English: “Unsafe, do not enter or occupy entry may result in death or injury.” Hazards such as lead paint, asbestos and batteries were strewn amongst the ashes, but few workers cleaning the neighborhood that day wore masks or other personal protective equipment (PPE). Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Greenhithe residents warned to keep doors and windows shut after huge fire

Kent Fire and Rescue Service continues to battle a blaze at a derelict builders’ merchants in Greenhithe, which is near Dartford, as heavy smoke continues to billow

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1 week ago Yellow fever: Health emergency declared as 17th century disease kills 34 and warning issued

People who are not vaccinated against the disease will be banned from travelling to certain areas of Colombia after the government declared a national health emergency for yellow fever

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2 w. ago Fire crews battle 'deliberate' fire right near people's homes

Operations were prioritised to protect nearby homes as the blaze was battled for hours

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2 w. ago ‘National scandal’ declared after 2,800 children sent to A&E over severe tooth decay last year

Labour accused of ‘devastating lack of ambition’ over NHS dental care crisis

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2 w. ago TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe: ‘I remember thinking I never want to do this again’

TV on the Radio’s frontman hit rock bottom at the height of the band’s powers and stopped performing music for good. But with his acting career taking off and a genre-jumping new solo album, one of rock’s great polymaths is backSitting in the belly of north London’s Islington Assembly Hall in the middle of four sold-out nights, TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe is recalling the precise moment he wanted to quit his band – and music – for ever. It was 2019 and the group, an art-rock four-piece who haven’t made a record that wasn’t adored by critics since emerging from Brooklyn in the early 00s, were opening for Weezer and Pixies at Madison Square Garden in New York.Over the years, they’ve made five studio albums and also lost bass player Gerard Smith, who died suddenly in 2011. They’ve grieved and grown together. Adebimpe is their talisman. A tall, expressive focal point, able to rabble-rouse with songs such as Wolf Like Me, or calm the congregation with low-slung trac...

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3 w. ago Three died from smoke inhalation in station house fire, inquest openings told

Emma Conn, 30, her daughter Mayci Fox, four, and Louie Thorn, 23, died in the blaze in Rushton, near Kettering, Northamptonshire, on March 28.

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3 w. ago Fire ripped through roof of house so fiercely it forced road closure

The blaze caused major disruption along the A468, near Caerphilly

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3 w. ago Road closed as specialist unit brought in to tackle another wildfire

The latest blaze to hit Wales broke out on grassland at Tanygrisiau near Blaenau Ffestiniog

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3 w. ago Huge 'deliberate' wildfire leaves trail of devastation after threatening homes

Six fire crews dealt with the 'deliberate' blaze near Bryngarw Country Park in Bridgend and stopped it spreading to nearby properties and a children's home

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