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Australia: State of disaster declared amid Victoria fires

· By Timothy Jones
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Authorities in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria declared a state of disaster on Saturday amid bush fires that have destroyed homes, caused large-scale power outages and razed huge swaths of bushland.

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