Seventy-five people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday. The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking...
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At least 157 people were killed and over 160 others injured when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the worst since 2015, struck Nepal and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Himalayan nation's remote mountainous region, officials said on Saturday....
Trucks carrying vital humanitarian assistance have started to make their way into the eastern regions of Yemen after local authorities reopened roads and restored communication lines in the wake of Cyclone Tej....
At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 others injured after two trains collided on Monday in Bhairab of Kishoreganj in Bangladesh, about 80 kilometres from capital Dhaka....
Rival parties in Libya must mobilize through dialogue to finalize electoral laws and enable presidential and parliamentary elections to take place, a senior United Nations official told the 15-member organ today, in his first briefing since devastating floods caused widespread death and destruction in the north-east....
Relief workers warned Wednesday that Libya's catastrophic floods may bring unexploded bombs and mines from past conflicts to the surface, posing fresh threats to a nation that has already lost more than 11,000 people in the disaster....
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to flash floods in Bangladesh that have displaced over 15,000 Rohingya refugees and 300,000 members of the local communities in Cox’s Bazar....
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News on the missing Titanic tourist submersible and the international rescue effort, including updates on the search as the estimated oxygen supply dwindles.
