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Chaos at Site of Air India Plane Crash

“We didn’t know what to do — it was like our brains stopped working,” said one intern who escaped the building after an Air India jet crashed, killing at least 260 people.

© Amit Dave/Reuters

Anti-Migrant Rioters in Northern Ireland Set Homes, and Then a Refuge Site, Ablaze

Rioters clashed with police in Ballymena, and masked groups set fire to a recreation center in Larne, where families had been given temporary shelter.

© Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times

Police officers aiming water cannons toward protesters in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday.

Wildfire Near San Bernardino Mountains Prompts Evacuation Orders

The fire, which was burning near the town of Apple Valley, had exploded to over 4,200 acres since starting on Tuesday afternoon.

© Cal Fire/San Bernardino County Fire Department

The Ranch Fire burning near Apply Valley, Calif., on Tuesday.

Cargo Ship Carrying Electric Vehicles Burns Off Alaska

The U.S. Coast Guard said it would allow the fire to burn because the cars’ lithium-ion batteries could explode. The ship’s crew escaped on a lifeboat.

© U.S. Coast Guard, via Associated Press

Smoke rising from the cargo vessel Morning Midas in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.

Canada’s Wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan: What to Know About Smoke and Air Quality

Smoke from the fires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan is blanketing the Midwest and Northeast United States.

© Government of Manitoba

A photo released by the government of the Canadian province of Manitoba shows wildfires burning last week in Flin Flon, Manitoba.
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