Floods
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For seven days nonstop, heavy rains showered the northwest of Syria, destroying dozens of internally displaced peoples’ tents and forcing them to go to safer refugee areas, amid bombings by pro-Iran and pro-government forces on the civilians.Unpreced...
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By AFPLibya's prosecutor general on Monday ordered the arrest of eight officials as part of his inquiry into the recent flood disaster which killed thousands, his office said.The flash flood, which witnesses likened to a tsunami, broke through two ag...
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Libya's flood-devastated port city of Derna will host an international conference next month to aid reconstruction efforts, authorities in the east of the divided country said Friday.There was no immediate reaction from the internationally recognised...
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Libya’s Derna was hit by the devastating Storm Daniel, causing severe floods that weakened the capacity of the city’s 2 dams and made them collapse. As a result, Derna was submerged by about 23.5 million m3 of water, and 7,000 people were killed.A cl...
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Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej riv...
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A baby slept peacefully under a mosquito net oblivious to hundreds of evacuated flood victims lined up for food at a monastery in Myanmar on Saturday, all waiting for water levels to recede before they can return home.Floods and landslides caused by...
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By AFPSeventy years after the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands, Chiem de Vos, seven at the time, still hears his neighbour's desperate cries of "My children are drowning!" ringing in his ears.And as the Dutch this week commemorate the...
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By AFPJason and Shannon Phleger had just rebuilt their wildfire-ravaged home when it was wrecked again by one of the powerful storms that swept through California last week.Even for a state almost perpetually suffering from drought, the parade of bib...
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By AFPPakistan received over $9 billion in pledges Monday to help it recover from last year's catastrophic floods, vowing to become a model for how countries can build climate change resilience.Pakistan is still reeling from the unprecedented deluge...
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By AFPThe UN chief called Monday for "massive investments" to help Pakistan recover from last year's devastating floods, saying it was "doubly victimised" by climate change and a "morally bankrupt global financial system"."No country deserves to endu...
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By AFPThe death toll from floods in the Philippines has risen to 25, officials said Wednesday, with storms expected to dump more rain over the hardest-hit southern and central regions.Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as hea...
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By AFPChristmas Day floods in the Philippines forced the evacuation of nearly 46,000 people from their homes, civil defence officials said Monday.Eight people were killed and 19 others were missing after a week's worth of heavy seasonal rain in the s...
