Australian fires approach former bomb range
Australian emergency crews were battling
Thursday to keep an out-of-control wildfire from spreading to a
former weapons range littered with unexploded bombs. The
5,840-hectare (14,430-acre) Deans Gap blaze south of Sydney was
burning two kilometres (1.24 miles) from the Tianjara plateau which
was used by the Australian Army as a practice bombing range until
the mid-1970s.
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Hamas, Fatah to push for reconciliation
EGYPT: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and
exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal have agreed to expedite a stalled
reconciliation deal between the rival factions, a Hamas official
said Thursday.
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