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Around the World: Typhoon pounds Okinawa

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Japan the category four storm made landfall on the southern island of Okinawa this morning.

Forecasters say winds topped 130 miles per hour.

Local media reporting more than 100 people voluntarily took shelter a community centers.

Forecasters predicting the slow moving storm we'll sick and pound the area with conditions worsening tonight.

Trying to.

State media say at least three dozen people died when a double Decker bus rear ended a tanker truck.

On a highway in northern province both vehicles reportedly burst into flames killing nearly everybody on board the bus.

If you survivors with hospitals with severe burns authorities investigating.

Serbia crews battled a massive wild fire in southwest.

Thousands of villagers evacuated their homes a strong winds spread the flames Russian officials that the plane to help fight it.

Extreme heat and drought triggering hundreds of wildfires across the western -- Germany.

Officials say a tiger broke free from its enclosure and killed a zoo keeper in the west.

The series director says the animal escaped because someone didn't properly shut the door.

He'd been shot and killed the tiger before it into the visitors area.

And that's a wrap on -- -- just around the world in 82.