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Dust storm uproots tents of flood victims already made homeless in Pakistan
Sep 13, 2022 11:35A dust storm in Sehwan town in Pakistan's Sindh province on Monday uprooted hundreds of tents pitched at roadsides by people made homeless by the recent floods, as a fresh spell of rains expected in the middle of the month begins to set in, officials said.
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UN chief urges ‘massive’ financial support for flood-hit Pakistan
Sep 10, 2022 14:05UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has toured Pakistan's flood-hit areas, a day after he called on the international community to provide “massive” amounts of relief to the impoverished country.
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Raging wildfire in southern California triples in size, forcing evacuations
Sep 09, 2022 07:42A raging wildfire outside Los Angeles in the US state of California has forced massive evacuations, spreading to 23,919 acres with five percent containment, according to reports.
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UN chief arrives in flood-hit Pakistan, urges 'massive support' from world
Sep 09, 2022 06:50The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Pakistan on Friday for a two-day visit to show support and solidarity with the South Asian country hit by devastating floods.
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Pakistan looks ‘like a sea’ after devastating floods, says PM Sharif
Sep 07, 2022 10:46Many parts of Pakistan appear “like a sea,” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday following a visit to some of the flood-hit areas in the southern province of Sindh.
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Deadly floods triggered by seasonal rains destroy houses, farmland in northeastern Nigeria
Aug 31, 2022 10:31Heavy floods triggered by seasonal rains destroy crops and precarious housing at displacement camps in the city of Maiduguri, the regional capital of Borno state, north-eastern Nigeria.
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China warns of 'severe' threat to harvest from worst heatwave on record
Aug 24, 2022 06:27China's autumn harvest is under "severe threat" from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record.
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26 dead as forest fires spread in north Algeria
Aug 18, 2022 05:51At least 26 people died and dozens of others were injured in forest fires that ravaged 14 districts of northern Algeria on Wednesday, the interior minister said.
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Spanish firefighters continue battling fire north of Valencia
Aug 17, 2022 09:47Spanish firefighters and emergency units continue to battle an out-of-control wildfire near Begís, to the north-west of Valencia, where flames have burnt more than 700 hectares and forced the evacuation of several small villages.
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Three million homes at risk of flooding in UK as heatwave subsides with thunderstorms
Aug 16, 2022 07:17The United Kingdom is on high alert for flash flooding as the subsiding heatwave paves way for torrential rains and thunderstorms, reports said.