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Six dead in Indiana after storms and floods, emergency officials say
Powerful storms and floods have killed at least six people in Indiana, including a 4-year-old boy, state officials said on Saturday.
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Hopes fade in Colombia as more bodies recovered days after powerful quake
At least 294 people have died with 320 more missing and nearly 4,000 more injured.
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Indonesia's North Sumatra hit by 6.4-magnitude quake, no tsunami threat
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Indonesia's North Sumatra province on Saturday, but there was no tsunami threat and no immediate reports of aftershocks and damages, the coun...
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EU sends aircraft as Belgium fights record wildfire
The European Union deployed three helicopters and two water bomber aircraft to tackle a wildfire raging in eastern Belgium on Saturday, the bloc's crisis commissioner said, after...
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A tale of two buildings: how quake rescue efforts differed in Colombia and Venezuela
At a flattened apartment block known as Los Cocos in northern Venezuela, civilians toiled with little support to pull the living and the dead from the rubble. In neighboring Colomb...
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UK PM Burnham announces more funding for drought-hit farmers
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Saturday he was authorising £65 million ($88 million) of extra funding for farmers hit by a drought after the driest July on record i...
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Rhine water sinks to another record low and transport shifts to land
Water levels on the Rhine river fell to record lows overnight as a heatwave across Europe continued, data from Germany's inland navigation agency WSV showed on Saturday, meaning ...
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Hungary to sink two barges near nuclear plant to raise Danube levels to ensure cooling
Hungarian authorities will sink two barges in the Danube on Saturday to raise the water level at the Paks nuclear plant to avert a shutdown of one of its last two remaining turbi...
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Earthquake hits Spanish city of Granada, damages buildings and cars
An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck the southern Spanish city of Granada in the early hours of Saturday morning, with the regional government saying houses and cars were damaged...
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Powerful earthquake strikes off coast of Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early on Saturday, followed by several aftershocks, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, triggering an ...
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Mexico races to clear record seaweed surge from Caribbean beaches
Mexico is scrambling to contain a record surge of foul-smelling sargassum along its Caribbean coast, as the brown seaweed swamps beaches in the heart of the country's tourism belt...
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World Bank says it disbursed $200 million to Colombia for quake response
The World Bank on Friday said it had disbursed $200 million to Colombia for its emergency response to a deadly August 10 earthquake that left hundreds dead.
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Race to reach trapped survivor offers hope in Colombia quake zone
Rescuers raced against time in Colombia on Friday to free a man found alive beneath a collapsed hotel, a rare sign of hope nearly four days after one of the strongest earthquakes ...
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Displaced by El Niño, South American seabirds flock to Panama
Flocks of seabirds native to the cold, nutrient-rich waters off Peru and Chile are appearing far outside their usual range in Panama Bay as a powerful El Niño warms the eastern Pa...
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Hungary to sink two barges near nuclear plant to ensure cooling
Hungarian authorities are expected to start sinking two barges later in the day to raise the water level at the Paks nuclear plant in the Danube, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said...
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Record low Danube levels reveal sunken World War Two warship wrecks
Wrecks of World War Two German warships have resurfaced on the Danube River in eastern Serbia as record-low water levels exposed sandbanks and stranded boats.
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Two slicks appear in Gulf as huge oil spill off Oman threatens disaster
Two slicks have appeared in Iranian waters, satellite imagery and video verified by Reuters show, as tit-for-tat attacks on oil tankers and other vessels by Iran and the United St...
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Rhine water hits new lows, freight transferred to land transport
Water levels on the river Rhine in Germany have fallen to new lows as Europe’s heatwave continues, the country’s inland navigation agency said on Friday, and freight is being tran...
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