Deadly Jebi storm cuts off Kansai airport near Osaka, triggering thousands of evacuations. Japan has been hit by its most powerful storm in 25 years, killing at least 10 people destroying infrastructure. Major international airport Kansai which serves Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto was flooded and shut as the airport lost its link to the mainland…
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Over a million revellers turned up at West London over the 59th edition of Bank Holiday Notting Hill Carnival, the world’s second biggest after Rio de Janeiro’s and the largest in Europe to watch Steel drums , dancers and Brazilian music. The London Notting Hill Carnival fell silent for 72 seconds to pay their respect…
The Argentine Pontiff Pope Francis starts a two-day tour taking in a global Catholic Congress tonight at Ireland Cork Park’s 80,000-seat Dublin Stadium with an outdoor mass tomorrow at Phoenix Park, that is expected to draw half a million pilgrims. Superstars like Mick Jagger and Taylor Swift performed here in May and June 2018, respectively. Ireland’s…
Pinarayi Vijayan told the media that unprecedented flood in Kerala have claimed 417 lives with 36 people still missing. He said 7000 houses were destroyed in the floods and another 50,000 partially damaged.
Flash flooding in Dalian in China bordering North Korea. Global warming unleashed flash flooding because the amount of rain that can fall during an extreme downpour “ increases exponentially” as temperature rises, When more heat-trapping pollutants surround the Earth, more moisture is held in the air leading to more rainfall. Global temperatures have already risen…
Military teams and disaster response forces and local fisherman ultimately reached some of the remotest and worst flood-hit areas to rescue over 22, 000 people marooned in the flood-hit state of Kerala, India, on Sunday, Helicopters brought supplies and goods trains brought fresh water to communities cut-off by two weeks of incessant rain. The Government…
The state of Kerala in India has so far received 37.5 per cent excess rainfall in just two and half months. 26 more people were reported dead on Thursday taking the death toll to 375 over 80 dams opened. Some districts like Idukki, have received 83.5 per cent excess rainfall. Around 3000 people have been…
Over hundreds are missing and 27 people are dead as Dam collapses in southern Laos south-east Asia, flooding six villages. The $1.2bn dam collapsed after heavy rainfall. Rescuers are racing to find survivors after part of XePian X3-Namnoy hydroelectric power project the auxiliary dam “ Saddle Dam D” collapsed releasing five trillion litres of water…
Seven people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed bridge in the northern Italian city of Genoa killing 30 and injuring 16 with further 10 missing. Thirty-five cars and three heavy vehicles plunged a significant distance into a river and an industrial area when a large section of the Morandi Bridge collapsed at…