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New Zealand student missing after school group caught in cave flood
New Zealand emergency services said they are scouring a popular cave complex for a missing schoolboy Tuesday, after he was reportedly swept away by ... World News -
US president Biden to visit flood-hit California: White House
US President Joe Biden will travel to flood-hit areas of California on Thursday, the White House said, as the country’s most populous state cleans up ... World News -
Australia’s natural disasters bill hits $3.5 billion in 2022, billions more to come
Floods and natural disasters that hit all but one Australian state and territory in 2022 cost the economy A$5 billion ($3.48 billion) and stoked ... World News -
Boy, 5, dies as car swept away in Australian floods
Australian police on Saturday located the body of a five-year-old boy trapped in floods west of Sydney, the latest death from a prolonged period of ... World News -
Flood-hit Pakistan should suspend debt repayments: UN policy memo
Pakistan should suspend international debt repayments and restructure loans with creditors after recent floods added to the country's financial crisis ... World News -
Flood-hit Pakistan works to prevent overflow of biggest lake
Pakistan was scrambling on Tuesday to widen a breach in its biggest lake and keep the waters from overflowing amid unprecedented floods that have ... World News -
Amid global heatwaves, UAE bracing for another wet spell after Fujairah floods
As parts of the planet fights forest fires and scorching heatwaves, the normally arid UAE is bracing for more weird wet weather and storms as ... Gulf -
Supertankers waiting to load Murban crude after floods shut Fujairah
At least four supertankers are waiting to load Murban crude off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates a week after floods shut operations at the oil ... Gulf -
UAE, Saudi thunderstorms: Experts explain the reason behind the GCC’s wet weather
Heavy downpours have forced the UAE to battle floods as it recorded its wettest weather in decades, while neighboring Saudi Arabia reported torrential ... Gulf -
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in China after heaviest rains in decades
The heaviest rainfall in decades has triggered floods and landslides in southern China, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, ... World News -
Heavy rains leave ten dead, hundreds of thousands displaced in China
Ten people have died in central China as torrential rains lashed Hunan province, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported ... World News -
Indonesia flash floods kill at least eight, rescuers hunt for survivors
Indonesian rescuers scrambled Friday to find survivors under mud-swamped hillsides after flash floods on Java island killed at least eight people, the ... World News -
One dead, others trapped after Hong Kong scaffolding collapses
One worker died and others were trapped Friday when a major rainstorm blew traditional bamboo scaffolding off the side of a building under ... World News -
The most extreme weather events and catastrophes of 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be the biggest public crisis in living memory, 2021 has also been marred by another global catastrophe - ... World News -
Flash floods in northern Turkey kill four, one missing
Four people were killed in flash floods in Kastamonu in Turkey’s Black Sea region and one person was missing, the Disaster and Emergency Management ... Middle East -
At least 20 dead, 300,00 stranded in flood-hit Bangladesh region
Monsoon floods and landslides have cut off more than 300,000 people in villages across southeast Bangladesh and killed at least 20 people including ... World News -
Floods kills 40 in northern Afghanistan, 150 missing: Officials
At least 40 people have been killed with 150 more missing in northern Afghanistan after flash floods ravaged an area northeast of the capital Kabul, ... World News -
Torrential rains kill over 160 in India, dozens trapped in landslides
Rescue teams in India were digging through thick sludge and debris on Monday to find over 60 people trapped in landslides caused by torrential monsoon ... World News -
All 14 workers lost in tunnel flood in China confirmed dead
The bodies of all 14 workers trapped when a tunnel under construction was flooded last week have been recovered, authorities in southern China said ... World News -
German cabinet approves around $472 mln in aid for flood damages
Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a roughly 400 million-euro ($472 million) package of immediate aid for victims of last week’s floods and vowed ... World News -
Central Chinese province swamped after heaviest rain in 1,000 years
Large swathes of China’s central Henan province were under water on Wednesday, with its capital Zhengzhou hardest-hit after being drenched by what ... World News -
Chinese workers trapped in flooded highway tunnel for second day
Over a dozen workers were trapped in a flooded highway tunnel in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai for a second day as rescuers made slow but steady ... World News -
Flood traps 14 workers in tunnel under construction in China
Search teams were trying Thursday to rescue 14 construction workers trapped by an overnight flood in a tunnel being built in southern China.The cause ... World News -
New cyclone barrels towards disaster-struck Indonesia
A new cyclone was barrelling toward Indonesia and threatened to spark more floods and landslides, authorities warned Friday, as the archipelago reeled ... World News -
Indonesia’s navy readies hospital ships for cyclone survivors
Indonesia’s navy readied hospital ships Wednesday to help treat injured survivors of a cyclone that has killed over 150 in the archipelago and ... World News -
Indonesia, East Timor flash flood death toll surges past 150: Officials
At least 157 people have been killed in Indonesia and neighboring East Timor with dozens more still missing after a tropical cyclone battered the ... World News -
Philippine floods kill eight as thousands flee homes
Nearly 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the northeastern Philippines as heavy rain across the country left at least eight people dead, ... World News
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