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Four people are dead and 10 others missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated from areas hit by torrential downpours. Heavy rain has descended upon the vast southern province of Guangdong in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe
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Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Civil Defense has issued weather warnings and safety instructions as the country braces for heavy rainfall. Several regions across the Kingdom will experience medium to heavy rainfall accompanied by torrential downpours and hail until Tuesday, according to the authority. Mecca and surrounding areas are
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A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s eastern county of Hualien on Monday, the island’s weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage. The quake shook buildings in the capital, Taipei. The quake had a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the weather administration said. Earlier
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 shook the northern Turkish province of Tokat on Thursday, Turkey’s AFAD disaster management authority said. Teams from AFAD and other related agencies were investigating the situation at the scene, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X.
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Jailed former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen was freed Thursday after the High Court overturned his conviction and 11-year prison sentence on graft and money-laundering charges. A three-judge High Court bench in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation held that Yameen’s 2022 trial had been unfair and ordered a new trial.
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A Kenyan military helicopter carrying top brass including the defense chief crashed on Thursday, police said. President William Ruto convened an urgent meeting of the National Security Council, his office announced after news of the crash emerged. Defense forces chief General Francis Omondi Ogolla was among those on board the
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Dubai International Airport will return to its full operational capacity within 24 hours, Dubai Airports Chief Operating Officer Majed Al-Joker told state news agency WAM on Thursday. The hub has struggled to clear a backlog of flights in the aftermath of heavy rain that swamped the United Arab Emirates on
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Dubai has extended remote schooling for private schools for Thursday (April 18) and Friday (April 19), the Dubai Media Office announced on Wednesday. The Emirates School Education Foundation also announced extending remote learning for all government schools in the UAE on Thursday (April 18) and Friday (April 19) due to
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicenter of the earthquake was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.
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Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63. Most of the deaths were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan’s northwest. Collapsing buildings have killed 32 people, including 15 children
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with officials in Tunis Wednesday to discuss what she called a “new approach” to irregular migration and economic cooperation with Tunisia. The hard-right leader’s visit, the fourth in less than a year to the north African country, came as her government pledged to
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Travelers were warned against heading to Dubai International Airport and advised to check the status of their flights with the airline due to the heaviest rainfall in 75 years, Emirates News Agency reported. Dubai Airports said flights continued to be delayed and diverted following the deluge and urged passengers to
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A huge fire on Tuesday tore through Copenhagen’s 17th-century former stock exchange, toppling the historic building’s landmark spire in front of horrified and emotional witnesses. Amid flames and black smoke, the 54-meter (180-foot) spire crashed into the street below the Borsen building, which had been undergoing renovation. “This
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Motorists in the UAE were warned on Tuesday to avoid driving “unless absolutely necessary” as heavy rain, thunder, and lightning were reported nationwide. Residents across the country woke to black skies and heavy downpours on Tuesday, with the wet spell expected to last until Wednesday morning. According to the National
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Torrential rains and high winds lashed parts of the Gulf on Tuesday as the death toll from storms in Oman rose to 18, many of them children. Flights were canceled in Dubai, the region’s financial hub, while schools were shut in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Flooding hit
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Boeing defended its safety practices Monday, touting aircraft testing protocols as it girds for a tough congressional hearing featuring critics of the embattled aviation giant. “Boeing is confident in the safety and durability of the 787 and 777,” the company said in a powerpoint presentation accompanying a media briefing with