KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 25 people have been killed in rain-related accidents in the last two days as a fresh spell of monsoon rains and flash floods inundated large swathes of Pakistan, triggering landslides and washing away houses, roads, and bridges, officials and local media reported on Saturday. Some 25 people have lost [&h...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The death toll in devastating flash floods that have wreaked havoc across Iran in the past few days has reached 56, according to officials, with a weather alert still in place. Mehdi Valipour, the head of emergency operations at Iran’s Red Crescent Society, told reporters on Saturday that the floods triggered [&...
TEHRAN (AA) – At least five people were killed and nine others were injured as flash floods wreaked havoc in parts of northern and western Tehran, Iran’s capital, early Thursday. Many people are also reported missing. According to emergency officials, the worst affected area is the mountainous Imamzadeh Davood locality in northwest Tehra...
Karachi, Pakistan – (AFP): The monsoon, which usually lasts from June to September, is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but also brings a wave of destruction each year. This year’s monsoon is being felt hardest in cities, where poor infrastructure and services lead to cl...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Forcibly displaced civilians in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province are struggling to survive in makeshift tents in scorching temperatures. The sweltering heat wave, which has turned into a global phenomenon across the world in recent days, adversely affects the lives of millions of civilians who have taken shel...
KARACHI, PAKISTAN – (AA): Heavy rains along with flash floods and windstorms have claimed 298 lives across Pakistan since June 1. Torrential downpours struck almost the entire country, including Pakistan administered (Azad) Kashmir, triggering landslides and flashfloods, and washing away bridges, houses, and animals. Almost 9,000 homes h...
GENEVA (AA) – Described as “unprecedented, frightening, and apocalyptic,” the ongoing heat wave in Europe has claimed more than 1,700 lives in Portugal and Spain alone, the regional chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The situation points again to the “desperate need for pan-European action to effectively tackle climat...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Fifteen people have died from drowning and collapsed houses caused by heavy rains in Niger, officials said Thursday. “The statistics of the Directorate General of Protection show that 2,237 households, or 18,921 people were victims of bad weather and fifteen people lost their lives as of 19 July 2022,”...
MADRID (AA) – Excess temperatures brought on by the heatwave that continues to wash over Spain and Portugal have killed at least 322 people. High temperatures in the first three days of the heatwave in Spain, which officially began on Sunday, killed 84 people, according to figures from the Carlos III Health Institute released on [&hellip...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Army and paramilitary troops were called in to join the relief and rescue operations after fresh rain spells and flash floods inundated most parts of Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Monday. Another five people lost their lives in rain-related accidents in Karachi, home to 20 million people, as widespread...
