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scores of evacuations and destroying or damaging numerous structures.
• A blaze in northern Colorado was first reported Saturday morning and had grown to about 8,000 acres by mid-evening, while a fire in southern New Mexico was small for a few days until it began growing Friday, reaching about 10,000 acres.
• Both fires have damaged property and forced numerous evacuations, but officials haven't yet released specific figures on the numbers who fled.
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mountainous Paradise Park area, about 20 miles northwest of Fort Collins, prompted several dozen evacuation orders.
• Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokesman John Schulz said the fire expanded rapidly during the late afternoon and evening and by Saturday night, residents living along several roads in the region had been ordered to evacuate and many more were warned that they might have to flee. An evacuation center has been set up at a Laporte middle school.
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• MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The highest ranking U.S. official to visit Somalia's capital in years landed in Mogadishu on Sunday in another sign of improving security in the Horn of Africa's most chaotic nation.

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