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(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Wednesday, May 9, that there were no Filipino casualties in the heavy floods that hit the southern part of Kenya and have left more than 100 dead. “Our kababayans in Nairobi are safe and we will continue to monitor the situation,” Philippine Ambassador to Kenya Uriel Norman Garibay said in his report to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano. According to the DFA, there are […]
Tropical depression expected to exit PAR on Friday morning (Eagle News) — Tropical Depression “Basyang” continues to move toward southern Palawan and may make landfall there tonight, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. PAGASA said that as of 7 a.m., the center of “Basyang” was found 255 kilometers south of Cuyo, Palawan or 310 kilometers west southwest of Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. The tropical depression is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 […]
Four people were killed in the southern part of the country early Tuesday as “Basyang” unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. The storm slammed the east coast of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometers (47 miles) an hour. The heavy rain triggered landslides that hit mountain villages outside the mining town of Carrascal — 760 kilometers south of the capital Manila — killing four people, municipal police chief James Alendogao told […]
(Eagle News) — “Basyang” has slightly weakened as it continues to traverse Bohol Sea, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. As of 4 p.m., PAGASA said the tropical depression–with its center located 25 kilometers southeast of Tagbilaran in Bohol–was packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 65 kph. It is forecast to move west at 27 kilometers per hour. Signal Number one […]
by Clare BYRNE Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The swollen Seine peaked Monday at more than four meters above its normal level, leaving a lengthy mop-up job for Parisians after days of rising waters that have put the soggy city on alert. The river rose to 5.84 metres (19.2 feet) early Monday, causing continued headaches for commuters as well as people living near its overflowing banks. The Vigicrues flooding watchdog said the river […]
by Amélie Bottollier-Depois © Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Paris was on high alert Saturday as the swollen Seine continued to creep higher, with forecasters warning the river could stay high throughout next week, especially if more rain is dumped on France. Leaks started to appear in some basements Friday, while some residents on the city’s outskirts were forced to travel by boat through waterlogged streets. The Louvre, Musee d’Orsay and Orangerie museums are on high […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Global warming is expected to unleash more rain, exposing millions more people to river flooding particularly in the United States and parts of Asia, Africa and central Europe, researchers said Wednesday. The study in the journal Science Advances calculates how much more flood protection will be needed to keep the risks of high-end floods constant in the next 25 years. Unless actions are taken — such as enhancing dikes, boosting […]
(Eagle News) — Tropical Depression “Agaton” has slowed down slightly as it heads toward the West Philippine Sea on Wednesday. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said that as of 4 a.m., the center of the tropical depression was seen 175 kilometers west northwest of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. “Agaton” is packing maximum winds of up to 55 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 65 kilometers per hour. It […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Tembin (Vinta) on Friday struck the country’s main southern island of Mindanao, which often escapes the 20 or so storms that batter the rest of the archipelago nation each year. Civil defence officials said the number of confirmed deaths from Tembin […]
(Eagle News) — Government and other rescue workers, including those from the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s SCAN International, joined together to help thousands of people affected by severe tropical storm Vinta (international name Tembin) which had killed more than a hundred people, with others still declared missing. As of Saturday, December 23, the latest death tool reached 133 in southern Philippines, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said. The […]
(Eagle News) — Tropical Depression “Salome” has made landfall over San Juan, Batangas, and is expected to bring heavy rains in Metro Manila up to past midnight. In its 8 p.m. press conference on Thursday, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said “Salome” made landfall an hour earlier, and is packing maximum sustained winds of up to 55 kilometers per hour near the center, and gustiness of up to 90 kilometers per hour. […]
DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — The death toll from typhoon downpours and floods wreaking havoc along Vietnam’s south-central coast has risen to 69, authorities said Tuesday, as the country prepares to host a world leaders’ summit. Typhoon Damrey struck days before Vietnam is set to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in Danang next weekend. It will bring together US President Donald Trump, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, among other leaders. While Danang itself […]
