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A 7.1 magnitude quake hits Japan’s southern Kyushu island

TOKYO (AP) — A 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday, leaving several people dead and dozens of others injured or missing after part of a shopping center and a huge chimney at a paper factory collapsed, officials said. A tsunami advisory was issued ...

Latest Russian and Ukrainian attacks kill 15 people, officials say

Ukrainian attacks on holiday camps on Saturday in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region have killed 12 people, Moscow-installed officials said, while authorities in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region said a Russian drone strike killed three people there. The strikes followed a major ...

More than 200,000 people flee raging wildfires in France and Spain

ARCACHON, France (AP) — Massive forest fires forced the evacuation of some 200,000 people in southwestern France and central Spain on Friday, with residents fleeing towns near Madrid and Bordeaux as the flames raged out of control. Firefighters and authorities in both European countries ...