Torrential rains triggered new flash floods overnight in two villages in the Kathua district of Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing at least seven people and injuring five others, officials said Sunday.
In Kishtwar district, search teams are still (...)
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains killed over 200 people across India and Pakistan in the past 24 hours, with rescuers searching for at least 80 missing in a remote Himalayan village where cloudbursts devastated a Hindu pilgrimage site.
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At least 300 people have now been confirmed killed as torrential rain and devastating floods battered north and northwestern Afghanistan, UN Food Program said on Saturday.
"Flash floods ravage #Afghanistan, killing more than 300 people in Baghlan (...)
From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate-related disasters have affected millions and cost billions this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday, describing the "tell-tale signs and impacts" of (...)
The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale.
A high-level body set up to coordinate the (...)
The World Food Program (WFP) is supporting Pakistan as the country takes stock of floods which have reportedly killed more than 1,000 people and displaced some 33 million, the UN agency said on Monday.
Through its National Disaster Management (...)
Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June, officials said this weekend.
The new death toll came a day after Prime Minister Shehbaz (...)
Torrential rains and flash floods continue to wreak havoc in Pakistan as the number of people killed in rain-related incidents passed 1,000 and the government appealed for international help, the dpa reported.
The National Disaster Management (...)
The provincial governments and Pakistan's meteorological body warned that Rivers Swat and Indus could swell, leading to more flash floods which will impact the residents of these regions,
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provincial government in Pakistan (...)
Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rises, ocean heat levels and acidification, all set new records during 2021, while some glaciers reached the point of no return, according to the latest flagship report from the World Meteorological (...)
Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day's earthquake rose to 311.
According to Afghan and Pakistani officials, 237 people died in (...)
The death toll from three weeks of flooding in Pakistan has surpassed the 100 mark, officials said on Sunday, as authorities feared more heavy rains could affect more people.
Flash floods killed 109 people and some 700,000 have been affected, dpa (...)
The death toll from three weeks of flooding in Pakistan rose to 92, officials said on Saturday.
Most deaths were reported in the mountainous north of the country where flash floods cut off many regions, dpa quoted the National Disaster Management (...)
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Qa'dah 14, 1435, Sep 9, 2014, SPA -- The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reached 400 on Tuesday as armies in both countries scrambled to help the victims and authorities in Islamabad warned of more flooding in the days ahead.
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The death toll in flash floods that hit a remote
valley in Pakistan's north-western province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has risen to 71, a government official said Friday, dpa reported.
Heavy monsoon rains triggered the floods Thursday in the (...)
The United Nations on Wednesday made an urgent plea for helicopters as the death toll from weeks of massive flooding in Pakistan neared 1,600 people.
“We need at least 40 additional heavy-lift helicopters, working at full capacity, to reach the (...)
20 million rendered homeless
6 million victims await aid
Body formed to raise funds
Global response less generous
ISLAMABAD - A case of the deadly waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest, and aid (...)
The death toll rose to 672 from floods Saturday
as rescue workers tried to reach tens of thousands of people stranded
in north-western Pakistan, officials said.
according to DPA, rivers bloated by monsoon rains submerged thousands of (...)
The death in flooding in Pakistan rose to toll
rose to 870 on Saturday as rescue workers tried to reach tens of
thousands of people stranded in the north-west of the country.
Rivers bloated by monsoon rains have submerged thousands (...)
Saudi newspapers commented today editorially on a number of local, Arab and international topics, highlighting the Sudanese-Chadian reconciliation as a result of the mediation efforts exerted by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah (...)