KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The death toll in Sudan from floods due to a collapsed dam and heavy rains has risen to 132, authorities said late Monday. An emergency government committee said the death toll in 10 provinces rose to 132, while the number of affected families rose to 31,666 and individuals to 129,650. It […]
Bangladesh has blamed India for severe flooding that has devastated eight districts, claiming 20 lives and affecting 5 million people. Bangladesh’s information and broadcasting adviser Nahid Islam criticized India for its “inhumanity and non-cooperation” after Indian authorities allegedly opened the sluice gates of the Dumbur dam in Trip...
Feni – AFP River waters in low-lying Bangladesh are receding after days of deadly floods but 300,000 people are still in emergency shelters requiring aid, disaster officials said Sunday. The heavy floods, which killed at least 18 people in Bangladesh, have added to the challenges of a new government who took charge early this month [&hel...
Feni, Bangladesh — AFP At least 13 people in Bangladesh have been killed and 4.5 million affected by floods triggered by heavy rains, the disaster management and relief ministry has said. The South Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers, has seen frequent floods in recent decades. It is among the countries...
Miami, United States – AFP At least four people were killed as Tropical Storm Debby swept over Florida on Monday, threatening southeastern US states with record-breaking rainfall and potentially catastrophic flooding. A 13-year-old boy died when a tree was blown onto a mobile home in Levy County, the sheriff’s office there said, af...
ANKARA (AA) — Wildfires in the US state of California have burned more than 370,000 acres, leading to the evacuation of thousands of residents, local media reported on Tuesday. The fires, which began on July 24 near the city of Chico in northern California, are still ongoing, according to CNN. “The Park Fire” east of […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has drawn attention to the growing danger of rising temperatures around the world. He says heat is estimated to kill almost half a million people a year, which is approximately 30 times more than tropical cyclones. Guterres says he is launching a global demand with four areas of focus — caring [&hel...
Wildfires across California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington and Canada have caused significant smoke and haze, prompting air quality alerts. As of Wednesday, 79 major fires had scorched more than 1.4 million acres in the US and Canada. In Oregon, the Durkee Fire near the Idaho border remains uncontained, burning nearly 400 square miles. Californi...
In the past six months, floods in Kyrgyzstan have resulted in the deaths of 22 people, according to the country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations. Over 4,500 houses were damaged with some heavily destroyed by the floods, Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations, Azamat Mambetov said on Thursday. Mambetov noted that the...
The world on Sunday, July 21, experienced its hottest day ever on record, according to preliminary data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Carlo Buontempo, director of the Climate Monitor, says there has been a staggering difference between the temperature of the last 13 months and previous records. Before July 2023, the h...
