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New Zealand flood recovery estimated to take 'years'
Aug 19, 2022 (AFP)
The Pacific nation has been lashed by wild weather with the Nelson-Tasman district on the South Island bearing the brunt after 75 centimetres (29 inches) of rai...
Four killed in northwest China floods, 'Frightening' floods hit N.Zealand
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
A search and rescue operation has been launched, the provincial emergency management department said in a statement without providing more details. The floods o...
16 killed, dozens missing in northwest China floods; 'Frightening' floods hit N.Zealand
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
The deluge comes during a summer of soaring temperatures and torrential rains in China, with multiple cities clocking their hottest days on record and floods ca...
Sudan flood tol rises to 75; Niger rainy-season floods kill 32
Aug 16, 2022 (AFP)
"The number of people killed by the floods rose to 75, and left 12,551 houses completely destroyed, and another 20,751 partially damaged," a National Council fo...
Deadly floods kill 50 in northern Nigeria
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
Jigawa, similarly to other states in the agrarian region, records flooding every year but this has been the worst deluge it has experienced, according to the st...
Four dead in China flash flood; 11 died in Gambia's worst floods in decades
Aug 13, 2022 (AFP)
Footage published by Chinese media showed water rising rapidly in a river on the outskirts of Sichuan province's Pengzhou city. Tourists who had been playing in...
Tens of thousands trek rugged trail to glimpse Iceland volcano
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
Tourism officials said Thursday that almost 23,000 people had made the difficult, hours-long trek to spot the volcano in the Meradalir valley, just 40 kilometre...
Seoul seeks to ban basement flats after flooding deaths
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
Soldiers and relief workers were clearing debris Thursday from waterlogged, mud-covered homes in Gwanak district, an AFP reporter saw, where three tenants, incl...
South Korea flooding death toll rises to nine
Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)
The rain that began Monday is the heaviest since South Korea's weather observations began 115 years ago, according to President Yoon Suk-yeol, who apologised fo...
Record rainfall, flooding in Seoul kill seven
Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities warned there was more rain to come even as emergency workers struggled to clear the hulks of flooded cars, which AFP reporters saw strewn across maj...
'Indescribable': the heat and roar of Iceland's volcano as spectators flock to watch
Aug 04, 2022 (AFP)
"It's indescribable", says 40-year-old French tourist Magalie Viannisset, one of the curious onlookers gazing in wonder on Thursday at the fissure that opened u...
Tonga eruption blasted unprecedented amount of water into stratosphere
Aug 03, 2022 (JPL)
"We've never seen anything like it," said Luis Millan, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study e...
Deja vu as volcano erupts again near Iceland capital
Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)
The eruption was around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Reykjavik, near the site of the Mount Fagradalsfjall volcano in southwestern Iceland that erupted for six ...
Scores dead in floods in Uganda, Iran and UAE
Jul 31, 2022 (AFP)
Police and the military have been called in to help in search and rescue operations in Mbale, where stranded residents could only watch helplessly as their belo...
Rescuers face renewed rain as Kentucky flood death toll hits 26
Jul 31, 2022 (AFP)
Some areas in the mountainous region are still inaccessible following flooding that turned roads into rivers, washed out bridges, swept away houses and killed a...
Death toll from Philippine quake rises to 10
Jul 29, 2022 (AFP)
Rescuers in the town of Luba in the hardest hit province of Abra retrieved the remains of the men on a section of road that was buried by a landslide during Wed...
Eight dead in 'devastating' Kentucky flooding
Jul 29, 2022 (AFP)
The world has been hit by extreme weather events in recent months, incidents that scientists say are an unmistakable sign of climate change. "This is going to b...
Hundreds of aftershocks shake earthquake-hit northern Philippines
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
Five people were killed and more than 150 injured when a 7.0-magnitude quake struck the lightly populated province of Abra on Wednesday morning, authorities sai...
At least six dead in floods near Tehran
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
The flash flooding near the capital, in the foothills of the Alborz mountains, comes less than a week after floods in the normally arid south of Iran left 22 pe...
Powerful earthquake hits northern Philippines
Jul 27, 2022 (AFP)
The shallow but powerful quake struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on the main island of Luzon at 8:43 am (0043 GMT), the US Geologica...
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