STORY: More than 700 school students stranded in their dormitories after heavy rains and the ensuing floods were rescued by emergency workers, said CCTV.The southern Chinese province has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall since Thursday (April 18), with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the region's annual flooding season.As of Monday morning, 11 people were missing in Guangdong, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported without giving...
Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in
MOSCOW >> Water levels in some overflowing rivers in Russia were starting to drop on Monday, but flooding remains widespread, Russian state TV reports said.
Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in
Scores of tourists have been evacuated by air from Kenya's Maasai Mara
Authorities have said water levels in China’s Guangdong province are "dangerously high," sweeping through a number of cities.
Experts on Sunday removed a bomb left over in a southern Serbian city from the 1999 NATO bombing of the country, prompting the evacuation of more than a thousand residents, officials said.
The dam collapsed after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road. Heavy rains have pounded the country since March.
Emirates, Dubai's state-owned airline, and sister carrier flydubai resumed check-ins after telling passengers to stay away on Wednesday, when thousands of passengers filled the airport.
Shafaqna English– As a result of the return of seasonal rains that led to emergence of freshwater swamps along with garbage spread and inattention to protect against this disease, the malaria epidemic spread in a number of Yemeni provinces. According to Shafaqna, Asharq Al-Awsat wrote: “Some sources in the health
Work is underway to re-lay new granite paving in a flagship city centre development - but it could take two months. Workers are replacing a swathe of asphalt on Wellington, Cambridge and Charles streets that appeared after cobbles were torn up to run pipes to a new food hall on Cambridge Street. Readers voiced dismay at how it was left in October. In March, Sean McClean, director of regeneration and development at Sheffield Council, said he shared people’s frustrations at the six-month wait to...
UPDATE: The City of Tyler said a boil water notice was issued as of 3:55 p.m. for TWU customers in west Tyler as a safety precaution due to the main break. The boil water notice will affect 3,404 w