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  US celebrates July 4 with barbecues, fireworks, parades

  World | July 05, 2013 13:22 IST

  Washington, July 5: The Fourth of July was celebrated with a number of standard, but beloved, events: patriotic parades in the morning, barbecues with the family in mid-afternoon, fireworks in the evening and, later on,

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  Congress leaders jubilant over Rahul's elevation, fireworks at party HQ

  Politics | January 19, 2013 23:41 IST

  Jaipur/New Delhi: The elevation of Gandhi family scion Rahul Gandhi  as Congress vice president triggered celebrations among the Congress workers, who danced to the beating of drums and set off fireworks outside the party headquarters

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  Fireworks marks the beginning of 2013 over the City of Sails

  World | December 31, 2012 20:59 IST

  New Zealand,Dec 31: New Zealand's main city of Auckland became one of the first to see in the New Year with onlookers gathering at the harbour to enjoy the fireworks display.As the clock struck midnight

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  Guns blamed for starting wildfires in parched West

  World | July 04, 2012 9:06 IST

  Washington, Jul 4: In the tinder-dry U.S. West, where campfires, fireworks and even lit cigarettes are banned across public lands, another fire-starting culprit remains free of most restrictions: guns.This year, officials believe target shooting or

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  Fireworks Blast In East China Kills 8, Injures 6

  World | December 12, 2010 13:25 IST

  BEIJING (AP) -- A state news agency is reporting that illegally stored fireworks exploded in eastern China, killing eight people. The official Xinhua News Agency says the blast Saturday afternoon in Yangxin also injured six