Aerial view of a waterlogged village after torrential rains on April 21, 2024 in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province of China. Credit – Qiu Xinsheng—VCG/Getty Images Nearly 60,000 residents in China’s Guangdong province have been evacuated from their homes after extreme weather caused floods to sweep through a number of cities in the low-lying Pearl River Delta. […]
ORSK, Russia (Reuters) -Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area for at least 70 years. The deluge of melt water overwhelmed scores of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and areas of Kazakhstan close to […]
By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light MOSCOW (Reuters) – Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia’s Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe’s third longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 6,000 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee with just their pets and a few belongings. A string of Russian […]
Some passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight scheduled for Orlando are waking up in North Carolina. That’s because their flight had to be evacuated Wednesday night while still in Charlotte. Flight 1759 was supposed to leave Charlotte Douglas International Airport for Orlando around 11 p.m. READ: Powerball: Jackpot rises to $935M after no one wins […]
A SWAT situation in the Deerwood Village Shopping Center had some nearby businesses evacuating this afternoon. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces fired into the main hospital in southern Gaza early on Thursday, killing a patient and wounding six others, according to medics, as the army sought to evacuate thousands of displaced people from the medical complex that has been largely cut off by fighting for weeks. Israeli airstrikes meanwhile […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate the population of Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of the southern Gaza town. Mr Netanyahu made the announcement on Friday following international criticism of Israel’s plan to invade the crowded town on Egypt’s border. Israel says […]
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Merapi erupted Sunday, spreading searing gas clouds and avalanches of lava down its slopes as other active volcanoes flared up across the country, forcing the evacuation of thousands. On the densely populated island of Java, Merapi unleashed clouds of hot ash and a mixture of rock, and lava that […]
The command of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has urged residents of the border areas in Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts to evacuate for their safety. This measure is also essential to allow Ukrainian military forces to effectively respond to Russian attacks. Source: Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, Commander of the Joint Forces […]
Civilians living near the border with Russia in northern Ukraine should heed the advice of local authorities to evacuate amid daily enemy attacks, Commander the Ukrainian Armed Forces Serhiy Nayev wrote on Facebook page on Jan. 17. The border is a line of contact not only in the east and south, but also in the […]
Parts of downtown Mountain Home went into lockdown following a threatening note on a courthouse building Thursday morning. County employees arrived at work to find a note on the door of the Elmore County Courthouse that indicated a potential bomb threat, city of Mountain Home spokesperson Betsy Hiddleston told the Idaho Statesman by phone. Because […]
The security services of Israel and Egypt have not granted permission to evacuate 29 Ukrainians from the besieged Gaza Strip due to their alleged cooperation with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniichuk told Hromadske on Jan. 11. Since the hostilities between Israeli forces and Hamas started in early October, Ukraine […]