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Spain and Portugal battle wildfires as death toll mounts

Spain's worst wave of wildfires in at least two decades spread to the southern slopes of the Picos de Europa mountain range on Monday and prompted authorities to close part of the popular Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.

France 24

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What is a cloudburst and why are they so dangerous?

Deadly flash floods and landslides in Pakistan’s northwest have claimed over 300 lives after days of relentless monsoon rains. Homes, roads, and bridges were swept away in a matter of hours, with officials blaming a rare weather event kn...

Reuters

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N.L. wildfire puts another community on evacuation alert

Changing winds have made Freshwater, N.L., the latest community under an evacuation alert because of the approaching Kingston wildfire that has already burned about 95 square kilometres.

CBC News

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Hurricane Erin expected to bring dangerous riptides to East Coast

The effects of Hurricane Erin are expected to be felt up and down the East Coast, even if the storm remains at sea. Much of the shore from Florida to the Mid-Atlantic could see a high risk of rip currents as soon as Monday. Ali Bauman re...

CBS News

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People in Gaza scramble for food aid as death toll from hunger rises

The United Nations warns that levels of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza are at their highest level since the war began.

Africanews

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Thousands of emergency personnel battle wildfires in Spain, Portugal

A heatwave is continuing to affect the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to battle ongoing blazes and towns have been evacuated. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited affected regions to meet with the...

Euronews

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Pakistani authorities warn of further heavy monsoon rains

While people in northern Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir are trying to come to terms with the destruction wrought by floods and landslides, weather forecasters warn of more heavy monsoon rains to come.

DW News

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Fire at Russian industrial plant kills 11 people

A fire at an industrial plant in Russia’s Ryazan region on Friday killed 11 people and injured 130, Russian officials said on Saturday. The blaze broke out at the Elastik plant in the Shilovsky District, around 250 kilometres southeast o...

Euronews

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More than 300 killed in Pakistan amid heavy rains, flash floods

Rescue efforts intensify in flood-hit villages as thousands remain stranded and death toll rises across Pakistan.

Al Jazeera

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India-Pakistan floods: Hundreds killed in Kashmir region

Disaster management authorities in Pakistan say the death toll from monsoon rains and flash floods in the north and northwest, has risen to at least 321. In neighboring India, the government says dozens of people have been killed and at ...

Al Jazeera

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Hurricane Erin 'rapidly intensifies' to a Category 5

Being a Category 1 hurricane, Erin underwent a 'rapid intensification' which helped the storm to grow and strengthen to a powerful Category 5. Hurricane Erin won't make a direct hit on the U.S., but it will produce dangerous surf conditi...

AccuWeather

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Death toll rises as wildfires continue to burn across southern Europe

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey continue to battle wildfires that have raged on for weeks. Hot and dry conditions are expected to persist, challenging efforts to contain the blazes.

Euronews

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At least 18 dead after bus plunges off bridge in El Harrach

A tragic bus crash in Algiers has left 18 people dead and 24 others injured after a passenger bus veered off a bridge and plunged into the Oued El Harrach streambed around 5:45 p.m. Friday.

Africanews

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At least one killed after train collides with tanker in Denmark

A 76-year-old woman has died and around 20 others have been injured after the two vehicles collided at a crossing in southern Denmark.

Euronews

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Zambia downplays China-owned mine disaster

An evaluation of the collapse of a waste dam at a Chinese state-owned copper mine in Zambia may have released 30 times more toxic sludge into the environment than previously reported.

Bloomberg

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Ghana holds state funeral for 8 helicopter crash victims

Ghana has bid a final farewell to the eight victims of one of the country's worst air disasters in more than a decade.

Africanews

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Flash floods in India, Pakistan kill over 280 people

Flash floods triggered by torrential rains killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan. Rescuers continued their search for 80 missing in a Himalayan village and evacuated hundreds across the region.

Euronews

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South Africa water crisis: 3 million lack access to piped water

It's the final day of a major African Union water summit, as leaders race to tackle one of the continent’s most pressing crisis - water.

Al Jazeera

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26 dead, dozens missing in Lampedusa migrant shipwreck

There were 92 to 97 migrants on board when the boat departed Libya, according to survivor accounts. Authorities were still searching for any remaining survivors

Africanews

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Olive growing brothers lose 150-year-old grove to wildfire

In the scorched remains of his family’s Greek olive grove, 64-year-old Panagiotis Kazouras walks through blackened soil and charred branches as he mourns the trees passed down to him through generations.

Reuters

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Floods and landslides in Indian Kashmir kill dozens, scores missing

Scores are still missing after sudden floods triggered by heavy rains in Indian Kashmir killed dozens on Thursday (August 14), as floodwaters washed away crowds attending a pilgrimage. On Friday, rescuers were using shovels and earthmove...

Reuters

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Authorities search for migrants missing after shipwreck in Italy

Italian authorities searched for migrants missing at sea after two crowded boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, killing at least 27 people.

France 24

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Greece wildfires burn through 10,000 hectares in two days

After two days of wildfires, Patra in western Greece is in shock — roads closed, smoke rising, and the air thick with the smell of burning.

Al Jazeera

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Wildfires kill three, displace thousands across southern Europe

Wildfires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday with a round-the-clock battle to protect the perimeter of Greece’s third-largest city and at least three deaths reported in Spain, Turkey and Albania.

France 24

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Experts grapple with scale of plastic pollution in oceans

As 185 nations engage in talks on reaching a global treaty to curb plastic pollution, the increasingly unmanageable scale of plastic waste littering oceans and threatening the wildlife within them leaves experts concerned about the feasi...

France 24

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Dozens killed after torrential rains trigger flash floods in Kashmir

At least 56 people have been killed and dozens more remain missing after a sudden cloudburst unleashed torrential rain in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said, marking the second major disaster in the Himalayas in just over a week.

Al Jazeera

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Severe storms return to the Upper Midwest

Tornadic risks are back in the Dakotas and Minnesota, with days of storms expected ahead.

AccuWeather

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Morocco battles fierce wildfire in Amelay forest

Teams remain on high alert to prevent the flames from spreading further as the country braces for continued high fire risk.

Africanews

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27 migrants drown off Lampedusa, dozens rescued

Humanitarian organizations warn that the central Mediterranean route remains one of the world’s deadliest migration corridors, with thousands dying each year in desperate attempts to reach Europe.

Africanews

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Thousands displaced in Greece, Spain and Portugal wildfires

At least three have been killed as the European Commission said requests to help tackle wildfires this week reached the same count as for the entirety of 2024.

Euronews