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Australia’s bushfire commission has warned the government to be prepared for “more frequent and intense” natural disasters in the coming years. The commission released its first report on summer bushfires that burned... Read more »
Heavy rain has battered Bangladesh for more than a week, causing landslides that have killed at least six people. It has also severely damaged the fragile infrastructure in the Rohingya refugee camps.... Read more »
Russia has said more than 70 attackers were killed in its operation to repel cross-border raiders who entered the country’s Belgorod region from Ukraine and battled with Russian forces for an estimated... Read more »
The death toll in the flooding in western Rwanda has gone up to 127, according to the office of President Paul Kagame, as a rescue operation is under way to reach stranded... Read more »
A vigil has been held in Nepal for the victims of a plane crash on Sunday that left 72 people dead. The ATR 72 aircraft operated by Yeti Airlines was travelling to... Read more »
Ten people have been killed and several others injured after a gas tanker exploded near the South African city of Boksburg, causing widespread damage. Rescuers say the deadly blast occurred after a... Read more »
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 has killed at least 155 people in Afghanistan, the country’s disaster management authority says. The tremor shook parts of eastern Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan during the... Read more »
At least five people have been killed after Russian forces fired at the main television tower in Kyiv and the city’s main Holocaust memorial, Ukrainian officials said, after Russia warned it would... Read more »
Japan plans to release water that was contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. A team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency has been assessing the... Read more »