Hurricane Debby could bring ‘catastrophic flooding’ to southeast US
Soon-to-be Tropical Storm Debby could bring ‘catastrophic flooding’ to the southeast US this week. Will it affect the UK’s weather down the line?
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At least 20 people have been killed in heavy flooding in northeast Brazil that’s forced thousands of people from their homes.
At least 46 people have been killed in extreme flash flooding and tornadoes, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the north-eastern US.
Case rates in Newcastle are not far behind where they are in Tier 3 Liverpool.
In Gateshead, we are bang in the middle of the area which will be put under strict new lockdown restrictions from midnight – no mixing of households, and pubs and bars to close at 10pm.
Laptops are to be banned from airline hand luggage on inbound direct flights to the UK from six Middle Eastern and North African countries. The ban also applies to tablets and some larger mobile phones.
A major snowstorm producing blizzard-like conditions hammers the northeastern United States, causing flight cancellations, disrupting road travel and closing schools.
Soon-to-be Tropical Storm Debby could bring ‘catastrophic flooding’ to the southeast US this week. Will it affect the UK’s weather down the line?
Britain has joined a number of countries urging their citizens to leave Lebanon – amid increasing fears of military escalation in the Middle East.
In India at least 116 people have been killed in a stampede at a religious gathering in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Local police say heat, overcrowding and a lack of safety measures could have been contributing factors to the crush. Ria Chatterjee has more, and a warning, her report contains distressing images.
At least seven people have been killed after storms swept through parts of Switzerland, Northern Italy and France.
At least 94 people have died after a ferry capsized off Mozambique’s northern coast, according to officials there – with ‘many children’ said to be among the victims.
We put the question of UNRWA funding to the foreign office minister Andrew Mitchell when I spoke to him from our studio earlier.
After a week of heavy fighting Israeli troops have effectively severed Gaza in two. Meanwhile fighters from Hamas, which the UK proscribes as a terrorist organisation, are reported to have pulled back to embed themselves in dense urban areas.
At least three people have been killed, hundreds of flooded homes have been evacuated and a red weather warning has been extended for another day – as Storm Babet continues to cause havoc around the country.
While HS2 was deemed integral to the government’s levelling up project, the Northern Research Group of MPs, many of whose seats are in so-called red wall areas, have indicated recently they’d accept a compromise over connections to London as long as East-West links connecting Northern cities get built.