LOS ANGELES -- Firefighters reported progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles that might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead. The peak Southern California fire season hasn't even started yet. The worst fires typically flare up in the fall, when ferocious Santa Ana winds can drive fires out of wilderness areas and into suburbs. As a result, Southern California could be in for a long wildfire season. "When you see a fire burning like this, with no Santa Ana winds, we know that with the winds, it would be so much worse, so much more intense," said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mark Whaling. The Santa Anas are so devastating when they carry fire because they sweep down from the north and reach withering speeds as they squeeze ...

More than 160 people are feared dead in Iran today after a passenger plane crashed in the northwest of the country. State-owned media suggested that there were 168 or 169 people on the Caspian Airlines flight from Tehran to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, when it came down on farmland. The plane, reported to be a Russian-built wow goldTupolev, crashed near the city of Qazvin, northwest of the capital, just 16 minutes after take off from Tehran’s international Imam Khomeiny airport. Masoud Jafari Nasab, the Qazvin police chief, said: “The passenger plane was completed destroyed and the wreckage was scattered everywhere.” Most probably all passengers on board have been killed in the crash.” He added that the plane had crashed ...

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says Iran will not yield to pressure in the face of post-election protests over the nation's disputed presidential election. His comments Wednesday come one day after Iran's Guardian Council ruled out overturning the election results, despite finding voter irregularities in 50 districts.. U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday there are "big questions" about the legitimacy of the poll, which resulted in a landslide victory for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Internet postings call for an ...

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