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In worst-hit Auckland, flights resumed at Auckland Airport, which had suspended domestic and international operations on Friday. Air New Zealand said the airline’s international flights in and out of Auckland would resume from Sunday afternoon (2300 GMT on Saturday). On Saturday, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, less than a week into office, flew by helicopter over […]
The UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh, Gwyn Lewis, has visited Sylhet to discuss lessons learned in the response to the flood-affected areas. During the visit, he met the Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet, Mohd. Mojibor Rahman, representatives of regional non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies, met on 15 January to discuss lessons learned from some […]
US President Joe Biden on Saturday approved an emergency declaration for California as hurricanes have ravaged the Golden State since Dec. 26, killing at least 19 people and causing flooding, power outages, There have been mudslides, evacuations and road closures. The White House said in a statement that Biden ordered federal aid to supplement state, […]
An AFP journalist saw tractors fighting to pump floodwater back into the river in fields near Salinas. The newly falling rain was not helping the effort. And forecasters say the fluctuating weather in the US West—called an atmospheric river pattern—isn’t done. In the mountains, heavy snow was making travel dangerous or impossible on a three-day […]
“If you don’t believe in climate change, come to California. We’re living it,” Newsom said. The majority of the damage is concentrated around the city of Santa Barbara, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles, where the foothills slope steeply toward the Pacific Ocean. In the Rancho Oso area of the Santa Ynez […]
At least 50 people have died in Congo’s capital Kinshasa after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides, city police chief Silvano Kasongo said on Tuesday. Images shared online, which could not be immediately verified, showed entire neighborhoods covered in muddy water and paved roads torn by sinkholes. “We are already at about fifty deaths and […]
England captain Ben Stokes will donate his match fees from his three-Test series against hosts Pakistan to help the victims of the devastating floods in the country, the 31-year-old said in a statement on Monday. Millions of people in Pakistan have been affected by severe flooding in recent months, with officials in the Asian nation […]
