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(Photo: AP / Ng Han Guan)China evacuates over 100,000 as heavy rain continues to lash south
Residents rest near an area exposed after floods sweep through a village on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Heavy rain and high water levels on rivers in northeastern China were threatening cities downstream on Friday, prompting the evacuation of thousands, although the country appears to have averted the worst effects of the typhoon season battering parts of east Asia....Full Story

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(Photo: AP)‘Forced’ move: Rwandans grapple with own fears over UK asylum seeker plan
A security guard stands in the street by Hallmark Residences, which is one of the locations expected to house some of the asylum-seekers due to be sent from Britain to Rwanda, in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Thursday, May 19, 2022. The British government has said it plans to start putting asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda under an agreement struck with the East African country, and defended the deal that has outraged refugee groups and humanitarian organizations....Full Story

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British aid workers’ cause of death confirmed after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
The IDF targeted the clearly marked aid convoy with drones and missiles as it travelled through Gaza (Picture: Reuters) | Three British aid workers died from blast injuries to their head, chest and limbs when Israeli air strikes hit their convoy in Gaza, an inquest hear...Full Story
UN calls for investigation into mass graves found at Gaza hospitals
United Nations leaders demanded a “clear, transparent and credible” investigation Tuesday after mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of men and women were discovered on the grounds of two major hospitals in Gaza that were previously under assault by the Isr...Full Story
Air Force base on Guam still removing trees nearly a year after Typhoon Mawar
More than 250 dead trees and stumps — among the last reminders of a major typhoon that struck Guam last year — are slated for removal from Andersen Air Force Base in the coming months. | Typhoon Mawar passed just north of Guam as a category-4 storm on May 24. It las...Full Story
Ukraine, Israel aid package heads to Biden as Congress caps months-long struggle
House passes Ukraine security funding bill with bipartisan support | The House passed several foreign aid bills, including for Ukraine, with bipartisan support. | WASHINGTON – After six months, the wrinkle of election-year politics and the threat of a House leadership...Full Story
New tool ‘HeatRisk’ looks to cool down US’ skyrocketing heat-related deaths
Phoenix's record summer heat killed over 600 people, new report says How to tell the difference between heat exhaustion and heatstroke What is the heat index and why is it important to your health? | After the planet’s warmest year on record and a record numb...Full Story
New study calculates climate change's economic bite will hit about $38 trillion a year by 2049
People watch the sunset at a park on an unseasonably warm day, Feb. 25, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming. (AP Photo/Charlie Rie...Full Story
Here's why experts don't think cloud seeding played a role in Dubai's downpour
Vehicles sit abandoned in floodwaters covering a road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 17, 2024. With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai. (AP Photo/J...Full Story
Desert or island
MEDIUM RARE | Dubai, in the middle of the desert, swimming and sinking in floods wrought by rain. Manila, in the middle of an archipelago of 7,600 islands floating on blue-green water, crying and praying for rain. | What if we could switch places on the map? Could we us...Full Story
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Wed 24 Apr 2024
Heatwave warning in 10 states; Orange alert for rainfall in Arunachal Pradesh; check IMD's full weather forecast here
Live Mint The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning of heatwave conditions in several states in the coming days, ahead of the peak summer seasons. The IMD's press bulletin stated that heatwave to severe heatwave conditions may prevail...
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ukraine, Israel aid package heads to Biden as Congress caps months-long struggle
Usatoday House passes Ukraine security funding bill with bipartisan support | The House passed several foreign aid bills, including for Ukraine, with bipartisan support. | WASHINGTON – After six months, the wrinkle of election-year politics and the threat o...
Wed 24 Apr 2024
David Satterfield to step down as US envoy for Gaza aid
Al Monitor April 23, 2024 | WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s point person for Gaza humanitarian aid, David Satterfield, will leave his post at the end of the week but stay on as senior advisor, two sources familiar with the plans told Al-Monitor. | S...
There is urgent need to de-escalate Mideast conflict
China Daily In the wake of Iran's recent drone and missile strikes on Israel, there is heightened concern that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is increasingly spilling onto the world stage with deepening political polarization and global economic disruption. | ...
Bodies of stripped Palestinians with hands tied unearthed in Gaza
Beijing News GENEVA, Switzerland - The discovery of more mass graves in Gaza, some containing bodies of palestinians stripped naked and bound, has added new impetus to concerns about potential war crimes, the UN Office of the Human Rights Commissioner, OHCHR, sai...
Tue 23 Apr 2024
UNICEF reports thousands of children in Haiti are malnourished amid gang siege
WPTV Amid ruthlessly violent, armed-to-the-teeth rival gangs marauding throughout 90% of their country, Haiti’s 3 million children face acute risks from starvation. | The United Nations Security Council is sounding the alarm about a spiraling situation ...
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Un nio de cinco aos ingresa hasta tres veces en el hospital por consumir magdalenas ...
El Español El menor tuvo que pasar por la UCI del Hospital Clnico tras las pruebas de alergia pertinentes ......
California: Different type of atmospheric river saved state from drought
The Virginian-Pilot A rainbow appears in the sky as a family walks the bluffs in Montara, Calif., during a break in the winter storms, Thursday afternoon, Feb. 1, 2024. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) By Paul Rogers | progers@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group...
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Post-WWII order on 'brink of collapse': Amnesty head
Guam Pacific Daily News James PHEBY Apr 24, 2024 1 hr ago 0 | Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email | Amnesty International has been critical of Israel and its allies over the war against Hamas in Gaza | - | The rights monitor's secretary general Agnes Callamard said the post...
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Famine risk &aposvery high&apos in Gaza, especially in north, US official says
Voa News WASHINGTON — Israel has taken significant steps in recent weeks on allowing aid into Gaza, the U.S. special envoy for humanitarian issues said on Tuesday, but considerable work remains to be done as the risk of famine in the enclave is very high. ...
Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment
The Spokesman-Review Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the world has experienced profound ecological changes. Wildlife populations have decreased by 69 percent, the result of habitat loss caused by rapid industrialization and changing temperatures. 2023 was the hottest ...
Dust storm takes city by surprise, trace rain brings down mercury
Hindustan Times A dust storm with strong surface winds of up to 50kmph lashed Delhi in a 30-minute spell on Tuesday evening, accompanied by a drizzle and thunderstorms, bringing the Capital temporary relief from the heat, said officials of the India Meteorological D...
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Bangladesh dan India Disengat Gelombang Panas
Liputan6 Liputan6.com, Dhaka - Gelombang panas yang parah melanda Distrik Rajshahi, Pabna, Khulna, Bagerhat, Jessore, Chuadanga, dan Kushtia di Bangladesh dan kemungkinan akan terus berlanjut sehingga semakin meningkatkan suhu. | Sementara itu, menurut buleti...
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Space Coast launch schedule
Sun Sentinel The Space Coast set a new launch record in 2023 with 72 orbital missions from either Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The pace of launches could ramp up by the end of 2024 to a near twice-weekly rate with as many as 111 mi...
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