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At least 65 killed in Algerian wildfires, Greece and Italy burn

Firefighters battle the fires in Zekri, in the mountainous Kabylie region of Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers, Algeria August.[Reuters]

Exhausted Greek firefighters battled blazes for a ninth day on Wednesday amid sweltering temperatures that also helped stoke wildfires in Algeria, where at least 65 people died, and in southern Italy.

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