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Climate change triggered intensified rain, wind in Hurricane Milton: experts
Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)
"Heavy one-day rainfall events such as the one associated with Milton are 20-30 percent more intense and about twice as likely in today's climate," the internat...
Milton leaves at least 16 dead, millions without power in Florida
Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)
More than two million households and businesses were still without power, officials said, and some areas in the monster storm's path through the state remained ...
Losing everything: hurricane hits retirement complex in Florida
Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)
Hours later, after the powerful storm hit Wednesday evening, they watched as the same emergency crews who rescued them at their residence -- a series of two-sto...
Hurricane Milton makes landfall, walloping coast of Florida
Oct 10, 2024 (AFP)
Nearly three million Florida homes and businesses were without power after the weather front made landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key on the US state...
S.Sudan floods affect 893,000, over 241,000 displaced: UN
Oct 10, 2024 (AFP)
Aid agencies have warned that the world's youngest country, highly vulnerable to climate change, is facing its worst flooding in decades. "Flooding continues to...
Chad's capital under threat as floodwaters rise
Oct 10, 2024 (AFP)
Punishing rains have killed 576 people and affected more than 1.9 million in Chad since July, according to the United Nations, a devastating blow for one of the...
A US climate scientist sees hurricane Helene's devastation firsthand
Oct 09, 2024 (AFP)
But when Hurricane Helene hit the American climate scientist's hometown in North Carolina and flooded several of his friends' homes, the shocking experience mad...
Chad issues warning ahead of more devastating floods
Oct 09, 2024 (AFP)
Since July, floods have killed 576 people and affected more than 1.9 million, according to the latest figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanit...
Biden begs Florida residents to flee as Milton returns to Category 5
Oct 09, 2024 (AFP)
As the second huge hurricane in as many weeks rumbled toward Florida's west coast, people raced to board up homes and flee. "It's a matter of life and death, an...
Bosnia floods death toll rises to 22, evacuation ordered
Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)
With new heavy rains expected, the civil protection service ordered the immediate evacuation of citizens from the endangered Jablanica and Konjic regions that b...
Niger ups flood toll to 339 dead, more than 1 million affected
Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)
Niger's interior minister last month stated at least 273 were dead and more than 700,000 affected as extreme weather slammed the Sahel nation. As of September 2...
Deadly floods swamp India, Bangladesh; Flash floods kill three in Thailand
Oct 07, 2024 (AFP)
It follows devastating floods in Nepal this month which killed at least 225 people, with water adding to already swollen rivers in India and Bangladesh. Deadly ...
Intensifying to Cat 5, Milton targets Florida; FEMA head slams 'dangerous' misinformation
Oct 07, 2024 (AFP)
Milton, which is forecast to batter Mexico's Yucatan peninsula as it churns eastward, rapidly intensified to the highest category on a scale of five, triggering...
Two more found dead in Taiwan after Typhoon Krathon
Oct 05, 2024 (AFP)
Across the island, around 20,000 homes were still without power Saturday, mostly in the worst-hit southern seaport city of Kaohsiung, where the typhoon made lan...
Search continues for missing in deadly Bosnia floods; Storm flood kills man in western Greece
Oct 05, 2024 (AFP)
The waters are receding after the floods that struck Bosnia on Friday, but many roads to affected towns remain blocked, and large areas are still covered in deb...
Chad sounds alarm as heavy rains swell two rivers
Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)
The waters of the Chari river had risen by more than eight metres (26 feet) in the last 10 days or so, Prime Minister Allamaye Halina said. N'Djamena, Chad's ca...
Bosnia floods kill 16 people
Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)
Jablanica, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) southwest of the capital Sarajevo, appeared to bear the brunt of the downpours, which severed it from the rest of the c...
Taiwan shuts down for second day as Typhoon Krathon to land
Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)
Krathon, packing sustained wind speeds of 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 162 kph -- was 30 kilometres southwest of southern Kaohsiung at ...
UN releases $5 mln for flood victims in Nigeria
Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)
The money from its Central Emergency Relief Fund will help "scale up the flood response and address critical needs in three of the most flood affected states in...
Southeast US reels as storm Helene death toll passes 210
Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)
US President Joe Biden made his second straight day of visits to the country's southeast to grieve with residents of a region traumatized by a disaster that has...
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