TEHRAN, September 27 - Omani civil defense officials say firefighters found the dead after responding to the fire in the village, some 165 kilometers, or about 100 miles, northwest of Oman's capital, Muscat. The village sits along the country's coast with the Gulf of Oman.
TEHRAN, September 08 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Iraqi ambassador to Tehran in protest at a mob attack on the Iranian consulate in the city of Basra and the Iraqi police’s inaction on the incident despite the recent threats against the Iranian diplomatic mission.
TEHRAN, September 04 -Anger smoldered in Brazil on Monday after a fire destroyed the National Museum, a cherished historical repository that lacked a sprinkler system and which had suffered years of financial neglect, making its destruction a “tragedy foretold.”
TEHRAN, September 03 - Wildfires in the US have charred more than 10,000 square miles (26,000 square km) so far this year, an area larger than the state of Maryland, with large fires still burning in every Western state including many that are not fully contained.
TEHRAN, September 03 - A huge fire engulfed Brazil's 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, lighting up the night sky with towering flames as firefighters and museum workers raced to save historical relics from the blaze.
TEHRAN, September 01 - Eight people have been injured in a blaze at an oil refinery in Bavaria while another 1,800 people living close by have been temporarily evacuated.
TEHRAN, September 01 -An explosion and fire erupted Germany’s Vohburg refinery in Bavaria state early on Saturday morning and firefighters started to get the situation under control by midday, police said.
TEHRAN, August 28 - Police in the Indonesian part of Borneo island have arrested more than a dozen people suspected of starting forest fires that have killed four people in the past month.
TEHRAN, August 25 - Authorities in northeast Germany issued evacuation orders Friday as a forest fire consumed nearly 1,000 acres and periodically set off munitions left behind during World War II.
TEHRAN, August 22 - A fire broke out Wednesday on the 12th floor of a residential building in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, killing four people and injuring 12 others, officials said.
TEHRAN, August 9 - Greek authorities have released the names of those who died in the country's deadliest forest fire in decades, a list that includes several families.
TEHRAN, July 31 - Greece's conservative opposition on Tuesday demanded the heads of the emergency services resign following a blaze that killed more than 90 people, decrying their "pathetic" leadership during one of the country's worst natural disasters.
TEHRAN, July 30-Conditions to fight the Carr Fire in Shasta County, Calif., have improved but evacuated residents are still not permitted to return home, officials said.
TEHRAN, July 29 - The death toll from a Northern California wildfire rose to five with the discovery of human remains believed to be those of a missing elderly woman and her two great-grandchildren, even as fire crews battled on to quell flames that have devastated entire neighborhoods.
TEHRAN, July 27 - Heavy rains led to flash flooding Thursday in the north of Athens, three days after devastating wildfires killed scores of people in the region around the Greek capital.
TEHRAN, July 25 - At least 74 people have died and more than 150 have been injured by Greek wildfires sweeping through a resort town near Athens, authorities said Tuesday.