More than a thousand people have been left with respiratory problems after a sandstorm swept across Iraq’s central and southern parts of the country, health officials said. One official in Muthanna province reported to the AFP news agency at least
A year after devastating floods in eastern Libya killed nearly 4,000 people, reconstruction efforts have bolstered the influence of military strongman Khalifa Haftar, experts say. The 2023 disaster, triggered by extreme rainfall from the hurricane-strength Storm Daniel, saw two dams
Nearly 90 weather-related deaths have been recorded across the US after the country was pummelled by ferocious winter storms for the past week. The deaths include at least 25 in Tennessee and 16 in Oregon, which remains under a state
Freezing rain in central and southern Germany grounded hundreds of flights and disrupted train travel on Wednesday, while heavy snowfall in Norway’s capital led to the temporary closure of its main airport. A woman jogs past the Eiffel Tower after
Rescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in tsunami-like flood waters. At least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city.