Search results for ‘floods’
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Brazil battles nature as ‘largest ever’ floods submerge whole cities
At least 83 people are dead after days of heavy rain in southern Brazil and more than a hundred are missing.
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Australia floods: record rainfall and a captured crocodile
Hundreds of people have been rescued from floods in Northern Australia, after a cyclone triggered a month’s worth of rain in a single weekend.
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Libya investigates collapsed dams after thousands killed in floods
Aid organisations say diseases like cholera could spread, as well as severe shortages of food, clean water and medicines.
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Libya floods: Mosques across UK use Friday prayers to remember lost relatives
People living in the UK with roots in Libya have been speaking about their grief at losing relatives in the floods, describing it simply as a ‘catastrophe’. Mosques across Britain have been using Friday prayers to remember those who’ve been lost and to raise funds for the aid effort.
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Libya floods: More than 11,000 suspected dead
Aid workers are battling to get food and medicine to survivors five days after the floods in Libya that are thought to have killed more than eleven-thousand people. Around ten-thousand people are still missing and Libyans want to know why warnings about the state of Darnah’s dams were not acted upon.
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Libya floods: Demands for inquiry into burst dams as death toll rises
As the death toll grows, so too does the anger – and a country divided by the legacy of civil war is now united in its call for accountability.
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‘We only hope to find them and bury them’: Libyan translator on family members missing after floods
We spoke to Enas Mzaini, a translator who lives in the city of Tobruk, a couple of hours drive from Derna where her family lives. We began by asking what she knows about the situation there.
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Libya floods: Up to 20,000 people dead amid catastrophic damage
International aid is slowly starting to arrive in eastern Libya – amid fears that tens of thousands are buried under mud and rubble.
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Storm Daniel kills thousands in catastrophic Libya floods
Storm Daniel has devastated parts of Libya, as catastrophic flooding has killed thousands.
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China floods: At least 11 people dead and dozens missing in Beijing
Another powerful storm is threatening Japan days after Doksuri, a tropical cyclone, tore through China and the rest of the region.
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Civilians fired at while fleeing Nova Kakhovka dam floods in Ukraine
Emergency services in Kherson have come under Russian shelfire, as they rescue civilians who are trying to escape from the Kherson region.
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Italy floods: thousands flee after six months of ‘apocalyptic’ rain in a day
Flooding in northern Italy has forced more than ten thousand people to flee their homes.
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Over 600 die in Nigeria floods, with hundreds of thousands displaced
More than 600 people have died in floods which have swept across Nigeria – displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
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Pakistan floods: One third of country is under water
Flooding in Pakistan has claimed more than a thousand lives since the monsoon began in June.
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Pakistan pleads for aid after floods affect 30 million people
Pakistan’s climate minister says a third of the country is now under water, after floods which have left more than a thousand people dead.
