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Fire on U.S. Navy Ship in Japan Extinguished After 12 Hours

Two sailors sustained minor injuries, the Navy said, adding that the ship’s crew will remain on board in Okinawa.

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A ship sprays water on the U.S.S. New Orleans docked in Okinawa, Japan, on Wednesday, in a photo released by the Japan Coast Guard.
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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.”

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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.

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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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