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8 countries vow to protect cultural relics at Palace Museum meet (Beijing Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
About 50 officials and scholars from eight countries issued a declaration at Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, on Oct 20 on enhancing protection of the world's cultural relics ... following the first two-day ancient civilization forum held at the Palace Museum....

Author Aprilynne Pike creates an anti-heroine to root for

Edit Deseret News 24 Oct 2016
"As all writers do, I started thinking about how I could make it better and then came the thought of what I really wanted to do," Pike said ... After all, the characters are living in the palace of Versailles, which is now a pocket sovereignty, which means it's ruled independently from France, and all of the palace's occupants live like it's the 1800s ... "Sometimes, I think as a writer you just want the challenge of something," she said....

Restricted Burning Periods Apply from 1 November 2016 (Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
Landowners are advised that Permits to Burn are required from 1 November 2016 to 14 December 2016 ... The Prohibited Burning Period will start from 15 December 2016. From this date onwards all burning in the Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup must cease ... out in the Fire Break Order....

Firefighters seize moment, battle 28-square-mile Junkins fire ignited by downed power line

Edit Denver Post 24 Oct 2016
Firefighters hammered the 28.2-square-mile blaze burning west of Pueblo – with roughly 20 firefighters deployed per blackened acre, aided by air attacks – taking advantage of calmer winds Sunday to squelch flames in treacherous rocky canyons south of Hardscrabble Pass ... They anticipated releasing more data Monday on the area burned ... By Sunday, the fire had burned through brush and heavy timber....

Royal welcome: How Thailand’s Rama V was received in St. Petersburg

Edit RBTH 24 Oct 2016
The Thai King was treated to a Russo-French feast at the Petrhof Palace ... The king spent his first days in Russia at the Peterhof Palace, the summer residence of the Russian emperors. On the second day a gala dinner was organized at the Grand Peterhof Palace during which the king was introduced to ministers, chief commanders and the most important officials of the court....

Southern Utah wildfire nearly contained; crews monitoring stream to prevent damage from erosion

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 24 Oct 2016
With the Hicks Creek Fire in Iron County nearly contained, crews have shifted their focus to safeguarding against erosion that could damage a nearby stream ... 16 after a controlled burn on private property apparently rekindled and spread — was 70 percent contained Sunday evening, said Jason Curry, spokesman for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands ... Burning about 4 miles southeast of Cedar City, the fire was quell......

Warm, dry conditions hinder efforts to contain Junkins fire

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 24 Oct 2016
Officials said the Junkins fire has burned 18,099 acres - nearly 300 acres more in the past day ... the fire from homes in Custer County and spreading....

Ramayan meets Mahabharat

Edit The Telegraph India 24 Oct 2016
An epic confrontation combining the palace intrigue of the Ramayan and the fratricidal rancour of the Mahabharat is unfolding in India's political heartland ... ....

I am committed to a peaceful Nigeria, say Ewuare II

Edit Topix 24 Oct 2016
BY SIMON EBEGBULEM THE Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Omo N'Oba n'Edo Uku Akpolopkolo, Oba Ewuare II, says he is committed to a peaceful Nigeria irrespective of religious and cultural differences. Oba Ewuare II stated this yesterday evening during a special Durbar ceremony organised in his honour by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar III, at the Oba's Palace in Benin City ... ....
photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic
People watch a burning oil well in Qayyarah, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.in Qayyarah, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.

Darkness at Noon: ISIS Sets Oil, Sulfur Fires in Battle For Mosul

Edit Time Magazine 24 Oct 2016
Here in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, in the desert south of Mosul, the sun is an orange orb burning through a screen of black and gray clouds that cover the sky ... Retreating ISIS fighters have set fire to oil wells as well as a sulfur plant in the area, sending up plumes of toxic black and white smoke that blanket the sky and burn the lungs. Some of the oil fires have burned since last summer....

Former Japan SDF official believed to have blown himself up, injures 3

Edit China Daily 24 Oct 2016
Investigators said they are currently trying to determine the links between the suicide blast, a second explosion in the vicinity of the park and three cars being burned in a nearby parking lot, one of which belonged to Kurihara ... local time, although no injuries were reported as a result of an explosion there and the burning vehicles....

8-month-old dies after tea boiler falls on him

Edit The Times of India 24 Oct 2016
An eight-month-old boy, on Sunday, succumbed to burns sustained after hot tea boiler fell on him. Incidentally, he had recovered after being admitted to a private hospital with 40 per cent burns ... The October 18 incident occurred in JP Nagar of Gautam Nagar police station....

Former Japan SDF official believed to have blown himself up, injures 3 in park north of Tokyo

Edit Xinhua 24 Oct 2016
Investigators said they are currently trying to determine the links between the suicide blast, a second explosion in the vicinity of the park and three cars being burned in a nearby parking lot, one of which belonged to Kurihara ... local time, although no injuries were reported as a result of an explosion there and the burning vehicles....
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