Malaysian villagers escape floods on excavator as 28,000 evacuated
KAMPUNG SEMENTEH, Malaysia (AFP) -- Malaysian villagers were evacuated in an excavator while others swam through deep waters Wednesday as…
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Storms help Australia contain UNESCO heritage island fire
BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Australian firefighters have managed to control a bushfire that burned more than half of the UNESCO…
6 years ago
Heavy rains kill five in Colombia, six missing
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) -- Floods caused by a particularly intense rainy season have killed at least five people and left…
6 years ago
Floods kill 111 in central Vietnam, Storm Saudel on the way
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) -- More than 100 people have died and 20 others are missing in central Vietnam following weeks…
6 years ago
Heavy rains kill 30 in southern India
HYDERABAD, India (AFP) -- least 30 people have been killed because of sudden torrential rains and flooding in southern India,…
6 years ago
Hunt for missing rescue team in flood-hit Vietnam, more rain forecast
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) -- A search operation has been launched for a missing rescue team as severe flooding and landslides…
6 years ago
The underground ‘Parthenon’ protecting Tokyo from floods
by Shingo ITO KASUKABE, Japan (AFP) -- It has been called Japan's underground "Parthenon", a cavernous complex charged with protecting…
6 years ago
Floods, rough seas kill 18 in Vietnam as fresh storm on the way
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) -- At least 18 people died and more than a dozen are missing after floods submerged homes…
6 years ago
Storms devastate rice paddies in Italy’s ‘golden triangle’
by Francesco Gilioli with Ella Ide in Rome PALESTRO, Italy (AFP) -- With a deafening roar, the swollen Sesia river…
6 years ago
Six dead as storm causes floods, landslides in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) -- At least six people died and thousands were forced from their homes as a tropical…
6 years ago
65 killed, 330,000 left homeless in Niger floods
NIAMEY, Niger (AFP) -- Three months of pounding rain in Niger has left 65 people dead and affected nearly 330,000,…
6 years ago
Highest Nile waters for a century swamp Sudan
by Sammy Ketz Agence France-Presse KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — On Sudan's Tuti Island, where the Blue and White Nile meet,…
6 years ago
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