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SYDNEY, Jan 11 – Human remains were found in Australia’s southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Longwood bushfire burns, in a location given as Longwood, Victoria, Australia, in this handout image released on January 7, ...