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Severe Flooding Across Asia and Africa Claims Lives in Multiple Countries
Aug 25, 2024 (SPX)
In central Turkey, the heavy rains have turned deadly. Authorities reported that a 52-year-old shepherd lost his life near the town of Kirsehir, his body found ...
Iceland's volanic eruption expands as lava flows from second fissure
Aug 23, 2024 (AFP)
After weeks of warnings, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said Thursday that a new eruption had started at 9:26 pm (2126 GMT) that evening, following a...
11 dead, 14 missing in northeast China floods
Aug 23, 2024 (AFP)
China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with deadly torrential rains and scorching heat waves. The world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that s...
Iceland's volcanic eruption slows as lava flows from second fissure
Aug 23, 2024 (AFP)
After weeks of warnings, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said Thursday that a new eruption had started at 9:26 pm (2126 GMT) that evening, following a...
Flood deluge worsens in Bangladesh with millions affected
Aug 23, 2024 (AFP)
The South Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers, has seen frequent floods in recent decades. Monsoon rains cause widespread des...
Floods in Mali leave 30 dead as govt declares emergency
Aug 23, 2024 (AFP)
Some 7,077 households nationwide have been hit by flooding, leaving 47,374 people displaced or affected, the government said in a statement after a special cabi...
Niger's capital Niamey surrounded by floodwater
Aug 22, 2024 (AFP)
The main routes out of the city of about 1.5 million are mostly under water, and about 11,500 of its inhabitants have been affected by the disaster. Over the pa...
Five killed as flooding hits northern Thailand
Aug 22, 2024 (AFP)
New Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has asked for help to be sent to the worst affected areas in Chiang Rai, Nan and Phayao provinces. The Department of D...
Volcanic eruption grounds flights in New Zealand
Aug 22, 2024 (AFP)
It is the same White Island volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 people. The island, once popular with tourists, lies about 50 kilometres (31 miles) off New...
Thousands of children cut off from school by north Vietnam floods
Aug 20, 2024 (AFP)
The country's north suffered through an extremely wet summer, with mountainous areas in the northwest particularly badly hit by heavy downpours and flash floods...
Death toll from central China downpours rises to 50: state media
Aug 19, 2024 (AFP)
Fifteen others remained missing in Zixing city in China's Hunan Province, according to state broadcaster CCTV. "All administrative villages in the disaster-stri...
Yemen flood toll climbs to 60, thousands affected: UN
Aug 19, 2024 (AFP)
Yemen, already grappling with an almost decade-long war, suffers from severe floods on a near-annual basis that are triggered by torrential rainfall, while clim...
'Unprecedented' flooding kills two in Connecticut
Aug 19, 2024 (AFP)
The women were inside separate vehicles Sunday that became caught in flood waters in the town of Oxford, Connecticut located about 35 miles (55 kilometers) sout...
Ernesto exits Bermuda as downgraded to tropical storm; Ampil veers away from Japan
Aug 18, 2024 (AFP)
The hurricane, which hit Puerto Rico earlier this week, "will move away from Bermuda" Saturday night but would still create tropical storm conditions, according...
Ernesto restrengthens into Atlantic hurricane
Aug 18, 2024 (AFP)
The hurricane, whose center is forecast to pass near southeastern Newfoundland, Canada late Monday into Tuesday, was creating dangerous conditions for residents...
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes off Russian far-east
Aug 17, 2024 (AFP)
The local emergencies ministry said tremors were felt along the coast including in the region's capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. "Operational teams of rescuers...
Bermuda braces for direct hit from Hurricane Ernesto
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
The cyclone, which lashed Puerto Rico earlier this week leaving 600,000 customers without power, was churning in the Atlantic ocean and heading north towards Be...
'Very strong' typhoon bears down on Japan
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Ampil was located east of Hachijojima island, about 300 kilometres (190 miles) south of Tokyo and packing gusts of up to 216 kph as it headed north, the...
6.1-magnitude earthquake shakes Taiwan
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
The tremor, which could be felt in the capital Taipei, hit at 7:35 am (2335 GMT) at a depth of 15 kilometres (about nine miles) near Hualien, epicentre of a maj...
Nepal flood waters smash through village
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
No deaths were reported but the scale of the brown and muddy flood waters surging through the village of Thame were shocking, videos posted on social media by t...
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