Tens of thousands of people have taken shelter in government-run relief camps as heavy monsoon rains batter villages in India’s northeast, and one person has died in the floodwaters this week, a government relief agency said Friday. Assam state is on red
Tropical Storm Bret chugged toward the eastern Caribbean on Tuesday as the region prepared itself for an unusually early storm and the torrential rains that are forecast. Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving across the Atlantic Ocean
Peru’s worst dengue outbreak on record could intensify further as an El Niño climate phenomenon brings torrential rains and mosquitoes, driving the death toll this year past 200 with over 130,000 recorded cases, the health ministry said on Thursday. Dengue fever is
As temperatures breach normal levels, weather officials have issued a heat wave alert for several states of India. Some parts of India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh suffered blackouts that lasted more than 12 hours. Hundreds of Indian residents blocked roads over
A barrage of Russian missiles rained down on Kyiv and the rest of Ukraine on Monday, while Ukrainian forces are preparing for an expected counteroffensive in the coming days. Kyiv’s air raid sirens blared for hours throughout the day as Russia launched
Heavy rains have triggered flash flooding in northern and western Iran, killing at least two people, Iranian state television reported Thursday. According to Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of the country’s emergency services, one fatality was reported in Qazvin province and the other
Landslides triggered by steady rains swept mud, water and rocks into several villages in southern Peru, killing at least 36 people, authorities said Monday. Wilson Gutierrez, a civil defense official in the Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel municipality in Camana province, told local radio
Skiers are faced with resort closures in the Alps, after mild temperatures have closed half of the country’s slopes. As a result of rain and warm weather, slopes have turned green during what is supposed to be the busiest time of the