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
About 46,000 aircraft have logged GPS problems over Baltic Sea since August, says reportFlights in and out of Britain are among thousands that have been affected by suspected Russian jamming of GPS systems.More than 2,300 Ryanair flights have reported incidents of GPS interference since last August, according to a report, as well as almost 1,400 at Wizz Air, 82 at British Airways and four from easyJet. Continue reading
Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in
Eleven people are missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours.Heavy rain has descended upon the vast southern province of Guangdong in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe flooding that state media said could be of the sort only "seen around once a century"."A total of 11 people are missing after continuous heavy rainfall hit many parts of (Guangdong) in recent days," state...
Eleven people are missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours
Eleven people are missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours.Heavy rain has descended upon the vast southern province of Guangdong in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe flooding that state media said could be of the sort only "seen around once a century".
More than 11,000 people told to leave their homes after Mount Ruang erupted at least three times since Friday afternoonMore than 2,100 people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island were evacuated on Friday due to the dangers of ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami.Indonesia’s volcanology centre recorded at least three eruptions since Friday afternoon, with the maximum height of the eruption column reaching 1,200 metres (3,900 ft)....
Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano have forced more than half a dozen airports to close, with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, according to officials, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands due to tsunami fears. Mount Ruang erupted three times on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash more than 5km (three miles) into the sky and forcing authorities to issue evacuation orders for 12,000 people. A rescue ship and a warship were dispatched to help move people from neighbouring Tagulandang...
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.
THOUSANDS of British holiday flights have been hit by suspected Russian jamming — with aviation sources branding the tactic “extremely dangerous” and a major threat to air safety. The electronic at