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Following heavy downpour, a landslide occurred at a mine in Paniai district, Papua, killing nine and leaving another four buried, according to the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) on Friday night. The deceased are identified as Lukman, Iwan, Alafa, Mardi,…
Two Nepalese migrant workers who survived recent floods in north India were killed when a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried their hotel in a remote village in Nepal, local police said yesterday. The two men, who were in their…
Nine people were killed and four more others were missing in a landslide at an illegal gold mine in remote eastern Indonesia near Dageuwo village, Papua province. Rescuers had to fly to the scene of the accident in the country’s…
Flash flooding in New Bedford, Massachusetts, caused a large portion of the city to to be underwater this Fourth of July. Friday night, firefighters were busy pumping out basements in the North End. About fifty basements were flooded…
Typhoon Neoguri is forecast to strike Japan at about 12:00 GMT on 9 July. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of landfall will be near 31.5 N, 129.2 E.…
The first monsoon of 2014 rolled through the Phoenix metro area Thursday, sparking two fires and knocking out power to thousands. Both fires, one first-alarm and one second-alarm, were ignited near 43rd Avenue and Indian School Road just before…
Hurricane Arthur was moving offshore and away from North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Friday morning, one day after making landfall, leaving about 22,000 without electricity and threatening holiday weekend plans along the eastern seaboard. Arthur, which strengthened into a Category…
A rapidly-expanding wildfire, near the popular tourism area of Napa Valley, California, has burned nearly 6 square miles and has forced the evacuation of 200 homes. By Thursday afternoon, the Butts Fire in remote Pope Valley grew to 4,300 acres…
Rescue workers in Honduras are trying to free 11 men who are trapped in a small gold mine 110km (70 miles) south of the capital, Tegucigalpa. The miners were cut off on Wednesday after a landslide blocked their tunnel near…
Some 70 persons are missing in new migrant-boat disaster that occurred off the coast of Sicily a few days ago, UNHCR sources said Thursday based on accounts from some of the 27 survivors. The findings were confirmed by prosecutors in…
