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Hurricane Ian death toll climbs above 100 in Florida alone
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
Homes, restaurants and businesses were ripped apart when Ian roared ashore as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on September 26. The confirmed number of storm-rel...
Nearly a million affected by South Sudan floods: UN
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
The world's newest nation is reeling from four consecutive years of flooding, with the disaster now affecting nine out of ten states, the Office for the Coordin...
Why more Americans are flocking to Florida, even as hurricanes intensify
Oct 09, 2022 (AFP)
"Southwest Florida is my heaven on earth and hurricanes come with South Florida. So you just have to take it," the 28-year-old tells AFP, standing in a street s...
Hurricane Julia slams Nicaragua, menaces Central America
Oct 09, 2022 (AFP)
Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour when the storm made landfall near the Laguna de Perlas area at 0715 GMT, the countr...
Rain-lashed Sydney residents warned to evacuate
Oct 09, 2022 (AFP)
Officials reported 28 flood rescues over 24 hours in the eastern state of New South Wales, many of them for people who had tried to drive through inundated road...
Rising water level hampering Nigeria river rescue
Oct 09, 2022 (AFP)
Many people were either missing or presumed dead while 15 others were rescued after an overloaded passenger boat capsized on the Niger river on Friday. It took ...
5.0-magnitude quake hits central Greece
Oct 08, 2022 (AFP)
The National Observatory of Athens said the tremor hit at 1:02 am local time (2202 GMT) at a depth of 12.7 kilometres (8 miles) in the Gulf of Corinth, about 10...
Floods to drag up to 9 million Pakistanis into poverty: World Bank
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
Pakistan has been lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains this year which killed 1,700, devastated two million homes, and put a third of the nation underwater. Ei...
Nearly 200 dead in Niger floods
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
Rainy-season floods claimed 192 lives, affected more than 263,000 people and destroyed more than 30,000 homes, as well as classrooms, medical centres and grain ...
Iran quake injures more than 500 people
Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)
"The quake that hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in West Azerbaijan province has injured 528 people, 135 of whom have been admitted to hospital," the...
Hurricane Orlene hits Mexico's Pacific coast before weakening
Oct 03, 2022 (AFP)
Orlene came ashore as a Category One hurricane -- the lowest on a scale of five -- packing maximum sustained winds of 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour, the US...
Hurricane Ian death toll climbs in Florida
Oct 03, 2022 (AFP)
Ian, one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States, flattened whole neighborhoods and knocked out power lines and bridges as it made landfall on Flor...
Hurricane Orlene headed for Mexico
Oct 02, 2022 (AFP)
The storm lost some strength as it moved across the water, falling from Category 4 to 3, the agency said. But it is expected to be a strong hurricane when it pa...
Hurricane Ian heads to Carolinas after regaining strength in Atlantic
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
After weakening across Florida, Ian regained its Category 1 status in the Atlantic Ocean and was headed toward the Carolinas, the US National Hurricane Center s...
Hurricane Ian pounds Florida as a monster storm
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
The US Border Patrol said 20 migrants were missing after their boat sank, with four Cubans swimming to shore in the Florida Keys islands and three rescued at se...
Hurricane Ian leaves Cuba without power, takes aim at Florida
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Ian hit Cuba's western regions for more than five hours early Tuesday morning, before moving out over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Insmet meteorol...
Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 4 as it barrels toward Florida
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
As of 5 am (0900 GMT), mandatory evacuation orders had been issued in a dozen coastal Florida counties, with voluntary evacuation recommended in several others,...
What happens when a plane plunges into the eyewall of a hurricane
Sep 28, 2022 (The Conversation)
Jason Dunion, a University of Miami meteorologist, leads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2022 hurricane field program. He described the te...
Typhoon Noru tears across Vietnam
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
In Danang, Vietnam's third-largest city, high-rise buildings shook as the typhoon made landfall in the early hours of Wednesday, bringing winds of up to around ...
Hurricane Ian hits Cuba as Cat 3 storm; Vietnam evacuates ahead of Typhoon Noru
Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)
About 50,000 people in Cuba's western Pinar del Rio province moved to safer locations, 6,000 of them to state-run shelters and the rest to the homes of relative...
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