Rains unleash death, devastation in Pakistan Gulf News | Islamabad: Heavy monsoon rains across Pakistan have drowned dozens, with the death toll has now crossed all previously known records. | Torrential rains have knocked down over a dozen bridges in the worst-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province while over 450 villages have been flooded, leaving thousands...
Floods dump scores of chemical containers into China river Gulf News | Beijing: Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than a decade. | The barrels, containing a flammable chemical used to make rubber and adhesi...
Pakistan monsoon rains kill nearly 200 The Times Of India PESHAWAR: The death toll from flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan rose to nearly 200 on Friday as officials reported thousands more displaced. | Hundreds of homes and thousands of hectares (acres) of cultivat...
3 bodies found at sea 2 weeks after 'Basyang' Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines – Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard recovered on Thursday morning two bodies off Polilio Island, Quezon, and another off the coast of Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro. | All three were among those reported missing at the heig...
Officials: Floods kill at least 313 in Pakistan Breitbart | Pakistani villagers move into safe place from a flooded village near Nowshe... | In this image released by the Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Depa... | In this image released by the Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Depa... | PESHA...
Rain slows hunt for air crash bodies in Pakistan Breitbart | People carry a casket of a plane crash victim during a funeral prayer in... | Pakistani army troops remove a piece of wreckage at the site of Wednesday's... | Pakistani rescue workers search for evidence and victims of Wednesday's... | ISLAMABAD (A...
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Flash floods kill over 110 in Pakistan, Kashmir Breitbart | Pakistanis evacuate in a flood-hit area of Nowshera. At least 113 people ha... | Pakistanis scramble to safety in a flood-hit area of Nowshera. At least 113... | Pakistani local ...
Monsoon Rains Batter Pakistan, Killing 60 Orange News | At least 60 people have died and thousands more are stranded after heavy monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan. | Rivers have burst their banks, streets have been washed away and t...
At least 90 people dead in Pakistan flooding CNN | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 90 people have been killed since Wednesday due to floods caused by monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan, a provincial minister told CNN. | Ba...
Officials: Floods kill at least 267 in Pakistan Herald Tribune | PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. | The rising toll of the monsoon ...
Officials: Floods Kill At Least 267 In Pakistan CBS News PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. | The rising toll from the mon...
Officials: Floods kill at least 267 in Pakistan Breitbart | Pakistani villagers move to a safe place from a flood hit village near Nows... | In this image released by the Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Depa... | In this image released by the Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Depa... | PESHA...
Heat Wave Batters Russia The New York Times | RYBKHOZ, Russia — Ivan Tyurkin trudged along a pier and surveyed the breeding ponds all around him. He did not need a thermometer to know that the water was treacherously tepid. Dead trout, drifting like buoys, were evidence enough. | Last month, they were flipping and flopping and leaping, and Mr. Tyurkin was readying for another bountiful...
GLOBAL: Could be a busy season for disasters IRINnews web | JOHANNESBURG, 8 July 2010 (IRIN) - The La Niña phenomenon has officially arrived and disaster response teams around the world might need to brace themselves for heavier monsoons, bigger and more frequent hurricanes, and angrier cyclones. | "There is global consensus that we are at the beginning of a La Niña, but we cannot pronounce the inte...
