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JAKARTA: At least 18 people were killed and five others missing after flash floods and a landslide on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a local official said on Saturday in a new toll. Torrential rains triggered the flo­ods and landslide that hit Pesisir Sel­atan regency in West Sumatra province, forcing around 46,000 people to evacuate to temporary shelters. “Eighteen people …

QUETTA / LAHORE: With constant rains inundating more and more parts of Balochistan, authorities have declared an emergency in around a dozen districts, amid a fresh warning from the meteorological department of thundershowers in the upper and central parts of the country over the next three days. One more death was reported in the Pishin area, while several villages came …

Floods and landslides triggered by intense monsoon rains killed at least 50 people in northern and eastern India over the last three days, officials said on Sunday. The rains overwhelmed hundreds of villages, sweeping away houses and leaving residents stranded as rescue crews have been racing to evacuate survivors. Earlier this month, the federal weather office had predicted that India …

DEHRADUN: The death toll from days of flooding and landslides in India and Nepal crossed 100 on Wednesday, including several families swept away or crushed in their homes by avalanches of mud and rocks. Experts say that they were victims of ever-more unpredictable and extreme weather across South Asia in recent years caused by climate change and exacerbated by deforestation, damming and …

Africa’s fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118 million poor people face imminent drought, floods or extreme heat, and climate change could also shave three per cent off continental GDP by mid-century, the UN climate agency warned on Tuesday. The latest report on the state of Africa’s climate by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), partnered with African Union agencies, paints …

Floods and blackouts caused by Tropical Storm Pabuk left nearly 30,000 people in evacuation shelters across southern Thailand Saturday, as relieved tourists stranded on islands further north were spared the worst and began to plot routes home. Pabuk, a once in three-decades weather system, packed winds of up to 75 kilometres (45 miles) an hour and brought heavy rains and …