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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AFP) — Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with another 75 missing, many of them children, the Red Cross said Thursday. Thousands of people have been left homeless after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides, toppling more than 800 buildings including houses, clinics and schools in North and South Hwanghae provinces, leaving Red Cross volunteers scrambling to find survivors. “Thousands have lost their homes and are in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s Kansai airport will reopen partially on Friday, the government said Thursday, after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland. The collision left the airport, which is on an artificial island, temporarily cut off, stranding thousands of passengers and staff and forcing authorities to evacuate them by boat and bus. “Domestic flights in the Kansai international […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan scrambled Wednesday to evacuate passengers trapped at a major airport when a tanker slammed into its only access bridge during the most powerful typhoon to hit the country for 25 years. Typhoon Jebi left a trail of destruction Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring hundreds more as it battered western Japan with ferocious winds and lashing rain. As Japan was still picking up the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Gordon was making landfall Tuesday night on the US Gulf Coast along the border of Alabama and Mississippi as hurricane warnings remained in place. Authorities declared a state of emergency in both states as well as in the city of New Orleans in Louisiana — devastated in 2005 by mega hurricane Katrina. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Gordon, which formed near the upper Florida Keys Monday, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A major airport that was cut off when a huge typhoon smashed through its sole access road was being evacuated Wednesday, as Japan grappled with devastation caused by its most powerful storm in a quarter of a century. Boats were ferrying stranded passengers from Kansai International Airport — one of the country’s busiest — after thousands of people were forced to spend the night in the partially flooded facility. At least […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Gordon gained strength as it moved steadily toward the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, on track to make landfall just east of New Orleans with hurricane force winds. Authorities declared a state of emergency in the “Big Easy” — devastated in 2005 by mega Hurricane Katrina — as well as in Mississippi, and encouraged people living outside its levee system to evacuate voluntarily. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The toll in the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in a quarter century rose Wednesday to nine, with thousands stranded at a major airport because of storm damage. Typhoon Jebi slammed into the west coast of Japan around noon on Tuesday, bringing maximum winds of 216 kilometres (135 miles) an hour and heavy rain. The powerful gusts ripped sheeting from rooftops, overturned trucks on bridges and swept a 2,591-ton tanker […]
KOCHI, India (AFP) — “Rat fever” and other diseases have killed 14 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday. The separate death toll from the monsoon floods that forced more than a million people from their homes in Kerala last month has meanwhile risen to 486, the government said. “We had anticipated leptospirosis (rat fever) due to contaminated water and are taking all […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall Tuesday, the country’s weather agency said, bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall that prompted evacuation warnings. Packing winds of up to 216 kilometres (135 miles) an hour, Typhoon Jebi made landfall in western Japan as the strongest storm since 1993, the weather agency’s chief forecaster Ryuta Kurora told AFP. © Agence France-Presse
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A typhoon that forecasters warned could be the strongest to hit Japan in 25 years barrelled directly towards the western part of the country Monday, sparking warnings of violent winds and prompting rail operators to scrap services. Typhoon Jebi is expected to make landfall around midday Tuesday near areas still recovering from deadly record rains last month. If it maintains its current strength of 216 kilometres (135 miles) per hour, Jebi would be the first “very […]
(Eagle News) — Tuluyan nang humina ang southwest monsoon o hanging habagat at hindi na nakakaapekto sa kalupaan ng bansa. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), sa karagatan na lamang nakakaapekto ang habagat kaya maganda at maaliwalas na ang panahon sa buong bahagi ng Luzon. Gayunman, makararanas pa rin ng mga panandaliang pag-ulan dulot ng localized thunderstorms lalo na sa hapon o gabi. Samantala, ang low pressure area na binabantayan ng […]
(Eagle News) — Apektado pa rin ng habagat o southwest monsoon ang northern at central Luzon. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, ngayong araw ay apektado ng habagat ang Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley, at Central Luzon. Ang nasabing mga lugar ay makararanas ng maulap na papawirin na mayroong kalat-kalat na pag-ulan at thunderstorms. Maaaring magdulot ng flashfloods at pagguho ng lupa ang mararanasang katamtaman hanggang sa kung minsan ay […]
