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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Medvedev sacks officers over Russia fire failures

A man looks at charred car standing in the middle of the charred chimneys, all what is left of the houses that were burned to the ground during a fire at the village of Peredeltsy in Ryazan region, some 180 km (111 miles) southeast of Moscow, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010.

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MOSCOW—Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday sacked a string of officers over failures to stop wildfires that have killed 48 people as a new blaze raged close to a secret nuclear research facility. With the week-long crisis showing no sign of abating amid Russia's worst heatwave in decades, the emergencies ministry said hundreds of new...

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