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Czech city awaits the inevitable as floodwave looms
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
Local people gathered on bridges and the embankment in the city centre to watch the eponymous Opava river gradually rise level with the banks, fed by heavy rain...
Volunteers rush to help as Myanmar flood toll surges
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
Floods and landslides have killed more than 400 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which hit the region last weekend, ac...
Japan island warned of landslides as typhoon nears China
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Bebinca passed through Japan's Amami island overnight through Sunday, packing gusts of up to 198 kilometres (123 miles) per hour, the Japan Meteorologic...
Four die in Romanian floods
Sep 14, 2024 (AFP)
They were found in the southeastern region of Galati during a search and rescue operation, they said, adding: "Dozens of people were rescued from their homes in...
Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods
Sep 14, 2024 (AFP)
Floods and landslides have killed almost 300 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which dumped a colossal deluge of rain w...
Flooding in northeast Nigeria could displace up to one million
Sep 13, 2024 (AFP)
She screamed and people helped her escape with her six children. Flood waters have displaced more than one million people in and around Maiduguri, the capital o...
Storm Francine downgraded but still drenching US south
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
After making landfall on Wednesday afternoon as a Category 2 hurricane, Francine was downgraded by the following morning to a tropical depression, the National ...
'Staggering' destruction in Yemen after deadly flash flooding
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
The greying, bearded villager gestured at the fallen stone walls, all that remains of their home after raging torrents and landslips cut great scars across the ...
Millions in SE Asia battle floods, death toll passes 200
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
In worst-hit Vietnam, the fatalities rose to 197, with nine confirmed dead in northern Thailand -- where one district is suffering its worst floods in 80 years....
Millions in SE Asia battle floods, death toll passes 250
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
In worst-hit Vietnam, the fatalities rose to 226, with nine confirmed dead in northern Thailand -- where one district is suffering its worst floods in 80 years....
Central Europe braces for worst floods in decades
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
Forecasters in the Czech Republic and Poland said parts of their countries might record up to 400 litres of water per square metre over the next four days, whil...
SE Asia battles floods, landslides as death toll passes 200
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
In worst-hit Vietnam the fatalities rose to 197, with eight confirmed dead in northern Thailand -- where one district is suffering its worst floods in 80 years....
Tropical Storm Francine batters US state of Louisiana
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
The storm weakened from a hurricane as it moved over land, forecasters said, but it still posed risks and a flash flood emergency was earlier issued for the cit...
Hurricane Francine batters US state of Louisiana
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
The storm weakened as it moved over land, forecasters said, but it was still causing flooding, power outages and heavy rain and wind. A flash flood emergency wa...
Magnitude-6.3 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
The shallow quake located far from land produced no tsunami warning or immediate reports of damage. It was centred about 224 kilometres (139 miles) northeast of...
Nigeria floods kill 30, displace 400,000: rescuers
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
"The death toll is 30," National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesman Ezekiel Manzo told AFP a day after water from an overflowing dam swept away thousa...
Hanoi river level hits 20-year high as SE Asia typhoon toll nears 200
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Yagi hit Vietnam at the weekend, carrying winds in excess of 149 kilometres (92 miles) per hour and a deluge of rain that has also brought destructive f...
Hundreds flee after Philippine volcano warning
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
About 300 residents of villages within four kilometres (2.5 miles) of the Kanlaon volcano crater in the centre of the country were evacuated on Tuesday as a pre...
Landslide devastates Vietnam village as Yagi toll rises in SE Asia
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
The landslide engulfed the remote mountainous village of Lang Nu in Lao Cai province, killing at least 22 people and leaving another 73 people still missing, mu...
Francine becomes a hurricane as it heads for US coast
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
The storm was packing sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, and was about 150 miles east of the mouth of the Rio Grande, according to an NHC ad...
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