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RSSBRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Military flights rushed Monday to restock an Australian city before it is cut off by flood waters that have turned a huge swath of the Outback into a lake, while police confirmed two more deaths in the crisis.
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Farmers in northern Nigeria fear their crops were destroyed in weekend floods that started when two swollen dams overflowed and displaced 2 million people.
In the...
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Barely a few months before we were praying to the rain gods for their favour to quench the thirst of our parched lands, now we are praying them to stop ‘pouring’...
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Suhani Bunglani fans flies away from her two baby girls as one sleeps motionless while the other stares without blinking at the roof of their tent, her empty belly...
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Floods have displaced nearly 60,000 people in the last month in south Sudan with many at risk of malaria and other diseases, the semi-autonomous region’s...
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Authorities in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco are evacuating about 7,000 people and preparing to dig relief channels to avoid further flooding from the...
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Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains swept through a town in northern Turkey, killing at least 12 people, officials said Friday.
The landslide hit...
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Incessant rains made matters worse. Anxious villagers had gathered on a comparatively safer lagoon. A female voice vyed with thundering clouds in wailing, for her...
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One of the worst floods in the history of Pakistan eclipsed the Independence Day celebrations on Saturday, as many events were cancelled by the government and...
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I Woke up on a Friday morning, still groggy with last nights late sleep, eyes half open, tea cup in one hand and the Newspaper flowing out of my hand. It is true what I...
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There is nothing more vile than playing politics with people’s lives. The poor Pakistanis are experiencing a natural disaster of monumental proportions, millions...
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Mexico is facing a sort of perfect storm of floods that breed mosquitoes, prompting a big increase in the number of hemorrhagic dengue cases, the country’s top...
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Eleven people died in southern France after torrential rains triggered flash floods that overturned cars and sent residents scurrying to safety on rooftops, officials...
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A powerful storm has battered southern Brazil over the past 24 hours, forcing at least 8,400 people to abandon their homes and causing extensive material damages,...
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The Ecuadorian government is planning to build about six mobile disaster management centers with an “ultra-modern” design” to handle emergencies, President Rafael...
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A violent tropical storm battered Madagascar’s eastern coastline killing at least 14 people and leaving thousands more homeless, the government said on...
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The heavy rains that pounded Mexico late last week resulted in at least 32 deaths across the country, with the states of Michoacan, in the south, and the central states...
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Police in Peru say they have airlifted the last of the tourists stranded near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu after floods destroyed road and rail links.
Nearly 1,300...
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At least 19 people have died in Brazil after flooding caused by heavy rain, the government-run news agency Agencia Brasil reported Thursday.
The deaths occurred in Rio...
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Rain-fueled flooding in Argentina has killed at least two people and forced the evacuation of 3,000 residents, officials said Tuesday.
The city of San Antonio de...
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Eyes worldwide are now focused on Copenhagen, Denmark as the climate meeting opens today. Its’ obvious that Africa has borne the brunt of climate change, and being a...
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Temperature in Uganda will rose up to 1.5 degree Celsius over the next two decades. Its damaging agriculture and livelihood of whole communities, according population...
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A fair, effective and ambitious deal regarding climate change is what Queen Rania and Princess Haya of Jordan have asked to be targeted in Copenhagen’s summit as the...
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With heavily polluting oil industry, heavy use of road transport, and 110 million people, Mexico accounts for about 1.5% of global emissions. Not much when compared to...
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A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on...
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Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador...
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Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut...
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Nepalese authorities say landslides and floods triggered by days of heavy rains killed at least 34 people in the western part of the Himalayan nation Tuesday.
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A major breach in the embankment of a Krishna river canal has left low lying areas of a town and many villages in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district inundated even as...
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AT LEAST six people, five of them children, have been confirmed dead after a landslide hit Kyokyezo village in Rubanda county, Kabale district. According to Rubanda MP...
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A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...
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Among the key areas to be affected are roads, water supply systems and health due to a possible outbreak of water borne and related ailments. The country went through...
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Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water today, as the government...
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“After the Massive flooding that hit the West Africa and displaced a huge number of people, Morocco has decided to send an emergency humanitarian aid to Burkina...
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The only piece of furniture that survived the most recent flood in Fatou Dione’s house is her bed. It’s propped up on cinderblocks and hovers just above the...
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Guwahati city facing interplay of bomb blasts and floods
Guwahati city is called as the gateway of entire North east. People from all over the region reside or come...
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Everyday, people around the globe are threatened by storms, floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and other natural hazards and suffer because of their social,...
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We live in such voyeuristic times that it’s often difficult to feel anything anymore. Blasts. Floods. Torture. Terror. Every news piece is a story of victims of...
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More than two weeks after floodwaters inundated the impoverished lowlands of the Indian state of Bihar, untold numbers of residents remain perched upon their rooftops,...
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As Hurricane Dolly batters the coasts of Texas and Mexico, it’s not the whipping winds that residents should be most worried about. It’s the water.
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The North Queensland town of Normanton is flooded by monsoonal rains, Australia, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. As if torrents washing through homes and sweeping away furniture wasn’t scary enough. Authorities in storm-battered northeastern Australia are...
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