The Associated PressMOSCOW — The latest wave of forest fires in Russia have killed eight people and injured 17, authorities said Friday.Fires have blazed across much of European Russia in August following weeks of drought and record-high temperatures. A thick pall of smoke from the forest and peat-bog fires covered Moscow for several days.About 500 houses have been set ablaze, the Emergencies …
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8 killed in latest wave of Russian wildfires
