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World Service,26 Dec 2019,53 mins

Valparaíso fires: Dozens of homes destroyed in Chilean city

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At least 120 houses have been destroyed by fast moving forest fires in the Chilean city of Valparaíso, prompting a mass evacuation. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, faces his biggest political threat in a decade today, when his Likud party votes to decide who will lead it into the next general election. The annual yacht race from Sydney, Australia south to Hobart, the capital of Australia's island state of Tasmania has begun with the firing of a cannon.

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