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1. Major earthquake shakes southern Japan, some victims trapped in damaged shopping mall

   

   A major earthquake hit Japan's southern Kyushu island on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads ‌and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall.

2. New evacuations ordered in southwestern France wildfires as heat wave conditions return

   

   French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.

3. As Trump threatens wildfire smoke tariffs, Canada looks to reduce fire risk

   

4. Police believe at least 3 suspects involved in deadly Seattle festival shooting

   

   Police now say there were at least three suspects involved in a food festival shooting near Seattle's Space Needle over the weekend, and that one of them was among those killed in the violence.

5. Huge fires in France and Spain force evacuation of 330,000 as another heat wave looms

   

   Fire crews and planes are wrestling to bring a monster wildfire in southwest France under control before a forecast jump in temperatures complicates the firefighting effort.