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Super Typhoon Man-yi pounds the Philippines
Nov 16, 2024 (AFP)
More than 650,000 people fled their homes ahead of Man-yi, which is the sixth major storm to hit the disaster-weary country in the past month. Man-yi brought ma...
Tropical Storm Sara pounds Honduras with heavy rain
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Sara would bring "life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides" through the weekend. T...
Magnitude 6.6 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGS
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
The USGS said the quake was 51 kilometres (31.6 miles) deep and located 123.2 kilometres from the closest town of Kokopo. The Papua New Guinea National Disaster...
As Philippines picks up from Usagi, a fresh storm bears down
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
As Usagi -- the archipelago nation's fifth storm in three weeks -- headed north to Taiwan, rescuers worked to reach residents stranded on rooftops in northern L...
Spain flood epicentre survives fresh rain alert
Nov 14, 2024 (AFP)
National weather agency AEMET downgraded the highest red warning for rain by two levels for the eastern Valencia coast after a new storm made landfall without c...
Half of flood victims in Spain's Valencia 70 and older as epicentre survives fresh alert
Nov 14, 2024 (AFP)
The October 29 disaster marked the country's deadliest floods in decades. A total of 224 people were killed nationwide, with 216 of them in Valencia. The Valenc...
Philippines on highest alert as super typhoon approaches
Nov 14, 2024 (AFP)
Packing sustained winds of up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) an hour, Usagi is set to smash onto the main island of Luzon around 0900 GMT or earlier -- the fifth...
Evacuations, call for aid as Typhoon Usagi approaches Philippines
Nov 13, 2024 (AFP)
The national weather service said Usagi, the archipelago's fifth major storm in three weeks, was likely to make landfall Thursday in Cagayan province on the nor...
Spain flood epicentre braces for fresh deluge
Nov 13, 2024 (AFP)
Other parts of Spain also on high alert evacuated thousands of residents and closed schools as another storm lashed the European nation. National weather agency...
Airlines around Asia ground Bali flights after volcano erupts
Nov 13, 2024 (AFP)
Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Australia all issued advisories announcing changes to their flight schedules after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores island spewed a...
Indonesians drill for disaster before tsunami anniversary
Nov 13, 2024 (AFP)
Children burst down the stairs in a rush for safety from the second floor of a school near Aceh's provincial capital Banda Aceh, where more than 60,000 were kil...
Fifth storm in under a month bears down on Philippines
Nov 12, 2024 (AFP)
Now a weakened tropical storm, Toraji blew out to sea overnight after causing relatively limited damage and no reported deaths. But Tropical Storm Usagi is now ...
Schools shut as flood-hit Spain braces for more torrential rain
Nov 12, 2024 (AFP)
National weather office AEMET on Tuesday placed parts of Valencia as well as Catalonia in the northeast and Andalusia in the south and the Balearic Islands on o...
Thousands flee as fourth typhoon in a month hits Philippines
Nov 11, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Toraji hit near Dilasag town, about 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital, Manila, the national weather agency said. "We're getting hit wi...
After hurricanes, two earthquakes jolt crisis-hit Cuba
Nov 10, 2024 (AFP)
The quakes cracked walls and damaged homes, but did not appear to have caused any deaths, according to preliminary reports. They left many residents running int...
South Sudan floods affect 1.4 million, displace 379,000: UN
Nov 09, 2024 (AFP)
Aid agencies have said that the world's youngest country, highly vulnerable to climate change, is in the grip of its worst flooding in decades, mainly in the no...
Power restored to much of Cuba after storm causes blackout
Nov 09, 2024 (AFP)
According to the government, 13 of the country's 15 provinces had been reconnected to the national grid, with work underway to restore power to two other wester...
Indonesia volcano catapults vast ash tower into sky
Nov 09, 2024 (AFP)
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703-metre (5,587-foot) twin-peaked volcano on the tourist island of Flores, has erupted more than a dozen times this week, killing...
Devastating floods in Spain monitored by satellite imagery
Nov 08, 2024 (SPX)
The Magro, Turia, and Poyo river basins bore the brunt of the storms, which triggered powerful floods that swept through villages, washed away structures, and l...
Philippines cleans up after Typhoon Yinxing slams north coast
Nov 08, 2024 (AFP)
But while nearly 30,000 people took cover in government-run facilities in the days and hours before Yinxing made landfall, there were no reported casualties fro...
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