Flood Fears Jeopardize Bangladesh’s Summer Rice Harvest
Dhaka – Heavy pre-monsoon rains and rising upstream water flows from India have swollen rivers across northeastern Bangladesh, threatening major
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Deadly storm batters Greece, floods and transport chaos hit Athens region
Athens— A powerful storm front sweeping across Greece killed one person near Athens on Thursday, as gale-force winds, heavy rain
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Libya floods wipe out quarter of city, thousands dead
Reuters Storm Daniel barrelled across the Mediterranean into a country divided and crumbling after more than a decade of conflict. Thousands
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Rescuers retrieve over 2,000 bodies in eastern Libya wrecked by devastating floods
Derna (AP) — Rescuers have found more than 2,000 bodies as of Wednesday in the wreckage of a Libyan city
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10,000 people are missing and thousands are feared dead as eastern Libya is devastated by floods
Cairo (AP) — Emergency workers uncovered hundreds of bodies as they dug through the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of
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Flash floods in Indian state Assam kill eight
Guwahati (Reuters) – Flash floods in India’s Assam state have killed at least eight people and displaced more than 115,000
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A year after Pakistan’s devastating floods, challenges drag on for most, but signs of hope for some
Islamabad (AP) — Last summer’s flooding in Pakistan killed at least 1,700 people, destroyed millions of homes, wiped out swathes
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Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade kill 600, displace 1.3 million
Abuja — According to a revised toll announced on Sunday, it is now known that more than 600 people died
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Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade kill 500, displace 1.4 million
Abuja (AFP) — About 500 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others have
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