About 20 Chinese rescue workers in bright orange protective clothing operated excavators, shovels and ground-penetrating radar detectors on Sunday as recovery teams searched for hundreds of people still missing after a tsunami-like
When the first tremor struck on the holiday afternoon of June 24, Marisol Rojo was standing inside a friend’s apartment in Caracas’s Chacao municipality, unaware that within seconds the building around her
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Desperate residents and rescue teams continued searching for survivors across Venezuela on Friday as the death toll from twin earthquakes climbed above 900, with foreign assistance only beginning to reach some of
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Sri Lanka continues to struggle with the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah, with more than 3,000 people—3,146 from 1,075 families—still residing in 32 official safety centres as of 28 February. The vast majority
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Cyclone Chido, the most powerful storm to strike Mayotte in nearly a century, has left catastrophic destruction in its wake, with thousands feared dead on the French Indian Ocean island. The storm
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Note from Our Editorial Desk The weather and flood forecast for Sri Lanka, as of 12:30 on 27 November 2024, highlights the presence of a cyclonic system that is currently a deep
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In this global news dispatches, our news syndicators report on critical events shaping various regions of the world. From Congress’s failure to allocate relief funds ahead of a devastating hurricane to escalating
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