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'Like a new planet': Volcano draws visitors to Spanish isle
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
This time, he's here to see the volcano closer up now it has quieted down. "It's like walking on the surface of a new planet," said the 54-year-old nurse from t...
Air strikes, floods displace Nigeria jihadists
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
Northeast Nigeria is facing a 13-year armed insurgency by jihadist groups which has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around two million from their h...
Typhoon Muifa lashes eastern China, forcing 1.6 million from their homes
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
Muifa is the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Shanghai -- home to more than 25 million people -- since record-keeping began in 1949, state broadcaster CCTV sai...
Papua New Guinea quake toll rises to 10
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
Four days after a 7.6 tremor levelled hundreds of homes, split roads and caused power outages across the rugged jungle-clad north of the country, the scale of t...
134 dead, scores of homes wiped out in Sudan seasonal floods
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
Heavy rains usually fall between May and October in Sudan, which faces severe flooding each year, wrecking property, infrastructure and crops. The National Coun...
'Don't drown' the world: UN chief makes urgent climate appeal
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
"I have just returned from Pakistan, where I looked through a window into the future -- a future of permanent and ubiquitous climate chaos on an unimaginable sc...
Typhoon Muifa makes second landfall on China's coast
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
The storm -- packing winds of up to 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour -- made landfall at 12:30 am (1630 GMT Wednesday) in Shanghai's Fengxian district, state ...
Flood risk in central Ukraine city after Russian strike: Kyiv
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
"At the point of impact, we have observed a water flow of 100 cubic metres per second, which is a large volume," said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the pres...
All Shanghai passenger flights cancelled as typhoon nears
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
"Shanghai Airport Group will announce flight adjustments at both airports to the public in a timely manner, in line with the typhoon's impact," the firm said in...
Volunteers lead desperate bid to reach PNG quake victims
Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)
The quake rattled a broad area of the country's north, killing at least seven people, but the scale of the disaster is only slowly coming into focus. At least 3...
Artificial ocean cooling to weaken hurricanes is futile, study finds
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
"The main result from our study is that massive amounts of artificially cooled water would be needed for only a modest weakening in hurricane intensity before l...
'Very strong' Typhoon Muifa approaches Japan southern islands
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
According to Japan Meteorological Agency, Muifa is expected to maintain its strength and hit Ishigaki island, near Taiwan, on Monday before heading north toward...
Five dead in 'massive' Papua New Guinea quake
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
Residents in northern towns near the epicentre reported intense shaking mid-morning that cracked roads and rattled the cladding off buildings. Local member of p...
Two dead in 'massive' Papua New Guinea quake
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
Residents in northern towns near the epicentre reported intense shaking mid-morning that cracked roads and sheared cladding off buildings. Local member of parli...
'Nobody knows where their village is': New inland sea swamps Pakistan
Sep 10, 2022 (AFP)
Beyond this shoreline in southern Sindh, hundreds of villages and swathes of farmland are lost beneath the water -- destroyed by floods that have affected nearl...
Hurricane Kay hits northwest Mexico before weakening
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
Kay came ashore in a fairly sparsely populated area as a Category One hurricane -- the lowest on a scale of five -- and was later downgraded to a tropical storm...
UN chief in Pakistan to boost flood aid for devastated millions
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
A third of the country is under water -- an area the size of the United Kingdom -- following record rains brought by what Guterres has described as "a monsoon o...
China earthquake death toll rises to 82
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 kilometres on Monday, accordin...
China earthquake death toll rises to 74
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 kilometres on Monday, accordin...
South Korea typhoon death toll rises to 10
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
The typhoon, one of the most powerful to hit the country in decades, flooded streets and buildings as it passed through on Monday and Tuesday. In the southeaste...
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