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Here’s What France’s Largest Wildfire in Decades Looks Like

Prime Minister François Bayrou described the nearly 40,000-acre fire, which has killed one person, as a “catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.”

© Saboor Abdul/Reuters

A wildfire near in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, southern France, on Wednesday.
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Aftershocks From 8.8-Magnitude Quake Rattle North Pacific

Dozens of small earthquakes were recorded, most off the coast of Russia’s Far East. Five of them have been above magnitude 6.

© Agence France-Presse, via Russia'S Sakhalin Region Governm

An image released by the Sakhalin Region Government on Wednesday, showing the tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir island of Russia’s northern Kuril islands.
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