Tag: storms

  MOGADISHU: Al Shabaab fighters detonated a suicide car bomb before storming a military base in the south of Somalia on Monday and killing 27...

  COLOMBO: Heavy rain and lightning strikes across Sri Lanka have left at least five people dead and displaced more than 1,000, officials said Monday. Pradeep...

Fierce hurricanes, heat waves, floods and wildfires ravaged the planet in 2017, as scientists said the role of climate change in causing or worsening...

Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed Saturday to evacuate tens of thousands of people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of...

MEXICO CITY: Tempers began to fray in Mexico City on Friday as the search for survivors amidst the twisted rubble of collapsed buildings became...

MUMBAI: Torrential rains lashed India’s financial hub Mumbai for the second time in weeks on Tuesday, flooding low-lying areas and paralysing traffic at the...

HOLLYWOOD: Eight elderly patients died Wednesday after being left inside a stifling South Florida nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma, prompting a...

As the United States braced for its second major hurricane in two weeks, Friday marked the 117th anniversary of the deadliest storm in US...

FLORIDA: Residents of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday hunkered down for Hurricane Irma, which has smashed through a string of Caribbean islands...

PARIS: First there was Harvey, which put much of Houston under water. Now Hurricane Irma is rampaging across the Caribbean and closing in on Miami. Meanwhile,...

Damage from Hurricane Harvey could put it among the top five most costly US storms ever, with failing dams and levees driving up loss...