Acapulco struggles to recover as Hurricane Otis death toll rises
Acapulco was struggling Sunday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 48 lives across southern Mexico and provoked widespread power outages and...
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Hurricane Otis death toll surpasses 30 as more aid reaches Acapulco
More resources are arriving on Mexico’s battered Pacific coast, and the death toll from Hurricane Otis is growing as searchers recover more bodies from Acapulco’s...
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Hurricane Otis batters Mexico’s Acapulco, leaving resort city isolated
Hurricane Otis, one of the strongest storms ever to hit Mexico’s Pacific Coast, roared into the beach resort of Acapulco early on Wednesday, smashing buildings...
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A week after devastating quakes, another powerful jolt shakes Afghanistan’s Herat
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, wracking the same region where more than 2,000 people were killed...
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Afghanistan hit by second strong earthquake days after first killed
Another strong earthquake shook part of western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier quake killed more than 2,000 and flattened whole villages. Issued on:...
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Afghanistan earthquake death toll rises to ‘more than 1,000’, says gov’t spokesman
The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply Sunday to more than 1,000 as rescuers scrabbled for survivors among the...
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Rescue teams pursue search efforts in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains amid challenging conditions
Morocco accepted aid from four nations – the UK, Spain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates – after a powerful earthquake ripped through the country on...
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Greek PM announces €300 million in extra funding to fight climate
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday announced a further 300 million euros to fight the effects of climate change, acknowledging the scale of the...
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Califonia sues oil giants over climate change damages
The US state of California sued five of the world’s largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and...
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Rescue teams dig for quake survivors, bodies in Morocco mountain
Rescue teams stepped up on Wednesday a massive effort in devastated Moroccan mountain villages as chances faded for finding survivors from last week’s earthquake which...
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Libya’s deadly dam collapse was decades in the making
With thousands of people dead and tens of thousands more left homeless by floods as a storm burst through the dams next to the east...
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Quarter of Libyan city wiped out in deadly flooding
The number of dead in storm floods in Libya could reach thousands, an official from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)...