AFP :Torrential storms lashing South Asia have killed hundreds of people since June, official data showed Tuesday, with flooding and landslides causing widespread devastation during the treacherous monsoon season.Weather-related disasters are common during the monsoon season from June to September, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency and severity. The deaths include at least 250 in India, 171 in Nepal and 178 in Pakistan, according to official data in each country.In India, just months after the country baked...
AFP :Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday told Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas that Moscow was “concerned” about civilian deaths in Gaza.“We are concerned above all about civilian losses,” Putin said, according to images shown on Russian state television.“We are doing everything … to support Palestine and the Palestinian people,” he said.The only way to create “long-lasting, reliable, stable peace in the region” is implementation of all UN resolutions and the “creation of a fully-fledged Palestinian state,” he added.Abbas told...
Deutsche Welle :Mars has a massive, liquid water ocean, according to new analysis of data from Nasa’s retired InSight lander. InSight was launched in 2018, with a mission to record seismic activity on the Red Planet and quickly detected that Mars was still alive.The new analysis is yet another piece of evidence to suggest that water wasn’t vaporized when the planet lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, or that water is confined to the polar ice caps. But accessing...
AFP :Greek emergency services battled a massive wildfire threatening Athens for a third day Tuesday after finding the first victim and thousands of people were kept away from their homes by the flames.The body of a Moldovan woman was found in a burned out factory and at least 66 people have been treated for injuries since the fire broke out Sunday, authorities said. Five firefighters have been hurt.Fuelled by strong winds, the wildfire raced across parched landscape northeast of the...
Scroll.in : At least 32 people were killed on Sunday in rain-related incidents across north and northwest India, PTI reported....
News Desk : The Arakan Army (AA) pressed forward with its offensive in Rakhine State, advancing to Gwa Township, where they launched attacks on junta forces positioned at a checkpoint near a bridge in Chinkwin village, Kyeintali sub-township.Around 70 junta soldiers and militia members were positioned at the checkpoint, located 48km south of Thandwe town and 40km from Gwa town, Irrawaddy reported.Residents reported that the regime forces had previously blown up the bridge twice in July to slow the AA’s...
AFP : Three years into its rule of Afghanistan, the Taliban government has achieved some diplomatic wins even as it...
Deutsche Welle : A helicopter on an “unauthorized” flight crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in the northeastern Australian city of Cairns, starting a fire and forcing hundreds of patrons out of the building as a precaution, authorities said.The crash took place at around 1:50am local time on Monday.“The pilot and single occupant of the aircraft was located and declared deceased at the scene, and forensic investigations are underway to formally identify him,” Cairns police said in a...
AFP :Brazilian authorities on Saturday finished recovering the bodies of the 62 people who died when their plane tumbled from...
Al Jazeera :Israel issued new evacuation orders overnight covering areas of southern Gaza as it pressed on with its assault on the enclave, despite global condemnation of a devastating strike on a school-turned-shelter.The Israeli military issued the order to clear parts of the city of Khan Younis, including part of an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone from which the army said rockets had been fired, early on Sunday. The order came a day after an Israeli air strike on al-Tabin School in...
AP :Venezuela’s supreme court on Saturday said that it had not received evidence from the opposition coalition in the disputed July 28 presidential elections and warned that its decision in determining the winner would be final. The South American nation’s elections authority, which the opposition claims is loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, declared the leader had won re-election, while the opposition argued its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, won.The electoral authority has not released a detailed vote count from the elections and...