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torch

noun as in light

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Four people, including one policeman, have died in sporadic unrest, while on Monday, an independent electoral commission building was torched.

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Gunmen fired on a vehicle in Pakistan's northwestern border region, killing a pro-government militia leader and five others before torching their bodies, an official told AFP on Thursday.

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After clearing swaths of torched aloe plants, he trenched in about 500 native plants that he said “will look spectacular in a few years.”

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For two days during what is now called “the Summer of Hate,” white nationalists and neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches, swastikas and Confederate flags filled the streets.

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The woman, who is in her 20s, told police that she tried to torch a cockroach with a lighter and a flammable spray, adding she had used the method before.

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