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65 people were killed by flooding and landslides in India
An Indian police official said on June 18 that at least 65 people died, 60,000 pilgrims were trapped in northern India because of flooding and landslides caused by the m…
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Severe floods in the southern region of France
On June 18, thousands of pilgrims were evacuated from a famous shrine in the city of Lourdes in southern France due to flooding that drowned some administrative areas in…
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Japan passed new nuclear power safety standards
Japan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) on June 19 passed a new and more stringent set of safety standards for nuclear power plants.
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Bebinca storms are getting stronger in the South China Sea
At 13 o'clock, the location of the center of the storm is about 18.5 degrees north latitude; 115.4 degrees Kinh Dong, about 400 km from Hoang Sa archipelago to the East…
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Storm No. 2 is about 590 km from the coast of Quang Ninh and Hai Phong
At 04 hours on June 22, the location of the center of the storm is about 19.5 degrees North latitude; 112.3 degrees Kinh Dong, on the eastern area of Hainan Island (Ch…
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Storm No. 2 landed in the North East: break dike in Hai Phong
About 20h on June 23, after landing in the North Eastern provinces (the focus is on Hai Phong - Thai Binh) the storm No. 2 (Bebinca) weakened into a tropical depression,…
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Large floods in India and Canada cause great damage
Indian officials said on June 22 that at least 560 people were killed and tens of thousands of people were missing in northern India due to floods and landslides followi…
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Several thousand people died from floods in India
At least 5,000 people may have been killed by flash floods and landslides in northern India over the past week, an official admitted.
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Malaysia declared a state of emergency due to haze
The Malaysian government on June 23 announced a state of emergency in the southern Muar and Ledang areas of the country, due to haze from Indonesian forest fires causing…
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Heavy rains last in China, killing 15 people
The National Committee on China Disaster Control on June 8 said prolonged heavy rains in some of the eastern and southern provinces of the country in the past few days h…
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The frequency of flooding will increase due to climate change
According to a study published in the British Journal of Natural Climate Change on June 9, uncontrollable progress on global warming will increase the risk of flooding.…
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'Fire attack' raged in America, thousands of people evacuated
Forest fires in many localities in East and Southern Colorado of the United States have caused thousands of people to evacuate and many houses completely burned down.
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Taiwan shakes because of 6.7 Richter earthquake
At 13:43 Beijing time (12h 43 minutes in Vietnam) on June 2, in Taiwan's Nantou district (China), an earthquake with magnitude of 6.7 on Richter scale occurred, killing…
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Heavy rain caused heavy damage in Central Europe
Heavy rains hit Central Europe on June 2, killing three people and at least eight people missing, causing flooding, landslides, traffic interruptions and forcing hundred…
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America: The most serious drought in nearly 60 years
Corn and soybean fields in Illinois and Iowa states are burned. Even the second-longest river in the Mississippi world dropped to a rare low.