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Greece rattled by 5.4-magnitude offshore earthquake
Sep 09, 2025 (AFP)
The quake hit around half past midnight local time (2130 GMT) 45 kilometres (28 miles) northeast of the Greek capital, said the National Observatory of Athens. ...
5.3-magnitude offshore earthquake rattles Greece
Sep 09, 2025 (AFP)
The quake hit at 00:30 local time (2130 GMT) offshore 45 kilometres (28 miles) northeast of the Greek capital, said the Institute of Geodynamics at the National...
Philippine contractors allege lawmaker payoffs in flood control scandal
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
Public scrutiny of so-called ghost projects has been intensifying since President Ferdinand Marcos put them centre stage in a July state of the nation address t...
Rescue boat capsizes in Pakistan, killing five
Sep 07, 2025 (AFP)
Monsoon rains over the past week swelled three major rivers that cut through Punjab province, Pakistan's agricultural heartland and home to nearly half of its 2...
Powerful quake aftershocks cause more injuries in Afghanistan
Sep 05, 2025 (AFP)
Five shallow aftershocks, the strongest measuring at magnitude 5.6, were recorded by the US Geological Survey (USGS) on Thursday night and Friday morning, with ...
NOAA launches robotic hurricane research vessels
Sep 05, 2025 (UPI)
"The deployment is the latest effort by NOAA to advance data collection to improve hurricane research and forecasting, " NOAA said in a statement Wednesday. NOA...
Searchers retrieve bodies as Afghan quake toll expected to rise
Sep 04, 2025 (AFP)
The magnitude-6.0 earthquake that jolted the mountainous region bordering Pakistan late Sunday is one of the deadliest in the country in decades. The toll -- 1,...
Hope dwindles for survivors days after deadly Afghan quake
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
A magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit the mountainous region bordering Pakistan on Sunday, leaving residents huddled in the open air for fear of powerful aftershocks a...
Mexico tourist zone braces for Hurricane Lorena
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
The Category 1 hurricane is rumbling just off the coast of Baja California Sur state, bringing torrential rain and winds of 130 kilometers (80 miles) per hour, ...
Tech from NASA's hurricane-hunting TROPICS rides commercial satellites
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
The novel atmospheric sounder was originally developed for NASA's TROPICS (short for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity w...
Scramble for survivors as Afghan earthquake death toll passes 1,400
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
The casualty toll has mounted steadily since the 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit late Sunday night, devastating remote areas in mountainous provinces near the bord...
Villages marooned after deadly floods in India's Punjab
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
Flooding across the northwestern state killed at least 29 people and affected over 250,000 last month, with the state's chief minister calling it "one of the wo...
Afghanistan earthquake kills more than 800
Sep 01, 2025 (AFP)
The earthquake struck just before midnight, shaking buildings from Kabul to neighbouring Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. More than 1.2 million people likely felt...
Two dead as strong earthquake jolts Afghanistan
Aug 31, 2025 (AFP)
The epicentre of the quake, which struck at a relatively shallow depth of eight kilometres (six miles), was located 27 kilometres east-northeast of the city of ...
Floods, landslides kill at least 11 in India's Jammu region
Aug 30, 2025 (AFP)
An intense monsoon rainstorm in the Indian-administered territory since Tuesday has caused widespread chaos, with raging water smashing into bridges and swampin...
Typhoon Kajiki toll rises to five in Thailand
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
The storm made landfall in Vietnam on Monday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate, before sweeping across Laos and northern Thailand, bringing torre...
Pakistan's monsoon misery: nature's fury, man's mistake
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
Floodwaters gushing through mountain villages, cities rendered swamps, mourners gathered at fresh graves -- as Pakistan's monsoon season once again delivers sce...
Floods, landslides kill at least 30 in India's Jammu region
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in India's Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, officials and local media said W...
Pakistan blows up dam embankment as it braces for flood surge
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
Pakistan authorities blew up an embankment next to a monsoon-engorged dam on Wednesday as flooding submerged one of the world's holiest Sikh sites. Three transb...
Landslides triggered by Typhoon Kajiki kill two in Thailand
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
Landslides caused by heavy rain from Typhoon Kajiki killed two people and injured 10 in Thailand on Wednesday, provincial officials said, as authorities warned ...
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