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Defying warnings, inhabitants return to DR Congo's volcano city
Jun 01, 2021 (AFP)
Even as emergency officials insisted it was still not safe to return, streets in the city centre were clogged with traffic, the flow of pedestrians seemed close...
Exodus from DR Congo volcano city prompts fears of looting
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Holdouts have reported cases of homes and stores being looted after the exodus, although the phenomenon seems less widespread than when Nyiragongo last kicked i...
New Zealand military called in as hundreds flee floods
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Rivers burst their banks as a weather system dumped 400 millimetres (15.5 inches) of rain in two days, an amount meteorologists said exceeded the entire rainfal...
'We are suffering': Congo volcano spells misery for Rwanda too
May 30, 2021 (AFP)
"We were sleeping and the house started to shake... Then I heard a boom. We ran out of the house and saw the damage," said Dusengimana, surveying the deep fissu...
DR Congo president says situation 'under control' after volcano eruption
May 29, 2021 (AFP)
A week after Mount Nyiragongo roared back into life, causing devastation and sparking a mass exodus, "the situation is certainly serious but it is under control...
Volcano evacuation order sparks mass exodus in DR Congo
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
The city has been on edge since Africa's most active volcano erupted on Saturday, leaving at least 32 people dead. "Right now we can't rule out an eruption on l...
Latest India cyclone kills nine, thousands homeless
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming more frequent and severe as climate change warms sea temper...
Deadly cyclone batters eastern India, 1.5 million seek shelter
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
Cyclones happen regularly in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming both more frequent and severe as climate change warms the sea. ...
Volcano aftershocks rattle DR Congo city as death toll rises
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
Three days after Africa's most active volcano roared back into life, spewing lava that reached the outskirts of the city of 1.5 million, tremors were shaking th...
Two million rushed to shelters as India braces for another cyclone
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
Cyclone Yaas in the Bay of Bengal is expected to slam into West Bengal and Odisha states around midday on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department said, a...
Volcano death toll rises as aftershocks shake DR Congo
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
The deaths bring to 20 the number killed since Africa's most active volcano erupted on Saturday, spewing red-hot molten lava that engulfed houses in its wake. "...
Another cyclone looms for India, week after deadly storm
May 23, 2021 (AFP)
Moving northwards in the Bay of Bengal, the depression was set to form a cyclone -- to be dubbed Yaas -- before intensifying and hitting the eastern states of W...
Tourists and gorillas 'safe' after DRC volcano eruption
May 23, 2021 (AFP)
Nor were the rare mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park threatened by the eruption, the institute added. "The tourists present yesterday at the crater ...
Goma city 'spared' as river of lava from DRC volcano halts
May 23, 2021 (AFP)
Fire and fumes rose from the blackish molten rock as it swallowed up houses, flowing towards Goma airport on the shores of Lake Kivu and leaving smouldering wre...
Strong quakes rattle two regions of China
May 21, 2021 (AFP)
Both Qinghai province in the northwest on the Tibetan plateau and Yunnan province in southwestern China are areas prone to earthquakes. And both tremors were sh...
New India cyclone warning as death toll rises
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Scientists say cyclones in the densely-populated region, currently reeling from coronavirus, are becoming both more frequent and stronger as climate change lead...
89 still missing at sea after cyclone slams into India
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
Slamming the western coast late Tuesday, Cyclone Tauktae was the latest in what experts say is a growing number of ever-bigger storms in the Arabian Sea because...
India cyclone death toll jumps as navy searches for dozens missing
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
Cyclone Tauktae, which pummelled the western coast late Monday and left a trail of destruction, was the latest in what experts say is a growing number of ever-b...
24 dead, dozens missing as cyclone batters Covid-stricken India
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power after Cyclone Tauktae hammered the Gujarat coast on Monday evening. Wind up to 130 kilometres (80 miles)...
Tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea: Why are they increasing?
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
It is the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic and East Pacific Ocean basins and reports say it could be the biggest to hit western India in thr...
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