At least three people have been killed in an earthquake in the Haitian city of Jérémie, just days after floods left at least 42 dead. The 4.9-magnitude quake struck in the early hours of the ...

You don’t pick on the weakest kid on the playground and beat him up, and then say, ‘Hey, see what I can do.’ “ ...

While India's northern Himachal Pradesh state often sees landslides and flash floods, unregulated construction and torrential rains are exacerbating natural disasters in the mountainous region.

Emergency services say eight people including four children have been killed by electrocution in two separate events after ...

On the night of September 8, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Morocco in the Atlas Mountains near the historic town of ...

People in eastern Libya are still reckoning with the aftermath of last month's floodwaters that washed out to sea the heart of the city of Derna, and killed thousands.

The United States is announcing $65 million in new funding to Haiti’s police as well as other measures to support the country ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Thursday called for a multinational security support mission to ...

In what is being hailed as an historic first, the UN Security Council on Monday authorised the deployment of an international security force to help Haiti’s national police quell surging gang violence ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --The Libyan Red Crescent said Friday that at least 11,300 people are dead from the recent catastrophic flooding in the North Africa nation, with another 10,100 reported as still ...

Flash floods are so named because sudden deluges can occur after a heavy rainfall, which the National Weather Service says is the most common cause. The flooding begins within six hours of heavy ...

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