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Record rainfall has disrupted life in central Japan, with Nagoya receiving 104.5mm of rain in one hour and authorities issuing the highest Level 5 flood alert in several areas. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued the alert in parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures, including Nagoya, Seto, Kasugai, Komaki, Ichinomiya, Inazawa, Kiyosu, Kitanagoya, Ama, Tajimi and Toki. Residents in affected ...

Deadly fighting has broken out between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces and the Iran-backed Houthi movement. More than 60 people have been killed in southwestern Yemen as forces from the two sides clashed on Saturday. According to three Yemeni military sources, 26 soldiers were killed, AFP reports. According to the Houthi movement, more than 30 of its fighters were killed. In ...

A collection of nearly 3,000-year-old gold artifacts was stolen from a museum in Spain’s city of Villena early Thursday, with the thieves reportedly taking most of the historic treasure in just four minutes. The robbery targeted the ‘Treasure of Villena’, one of Europe’s most significant Bronze Age gold collections. The collection contains more than 50 artifacts, including 29 bracelets, 11 ...

Nepal and China resumed rescue operations that had been suspended briefly in the flood-hit Himalayas on Friday after risks from an overflowing lake were found to be manageable, easing fears of fresh devastation. Wednesday’s catastrophic flood caused by a glacier collapse killed 547 people in Nepal and five in China’s Tibet, with almost 1,000 more missing in the two countries. ...

A sudden flood in Nepal’s Rasuwa district has killed at least 22 people, while several others, including 108 Indians, are reportedly missing. The flood has also caused extensive damage in the affected areas, prompting precautionary measures in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which border Nepal. Several major rivers flow from Nepal into Bihar, including the Gandak River, also known as the ...

A wall of mud and rock appeared to collapse into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side that killed at least 95 people and left hundreds of tourists missing. In a still-unfolding disaster, verified videos showed dozens of people swept away at the border, with authorities on ...

A US judge on Friday struck down, opens new tab a Trump administration policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, including Bangladesh, saying that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority. US District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan said the policy that the State Department announced in January was “patently unlawful” and ...

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan is medically fit and back in jail after being examined by a team of doctors in a hospital overnight, the country’s information minister said on Friday, a move that had not been widely anticipated after the former premier was allowed to leave prison to have his health checked for the first time since February. ...

Climate change is the main driver of Europe’s rising marine temperatures, directly adding around 2C of warming in the Mediterranean this summer and severely impacting ecosystems, a study said Wednesday. “From the Atlantic waters off Ireland to the Mediterranean Sea, Europe’s seas are experiencing an alarming surge in temperatures,” said co-author Thomas Frolicher, an environmental physicist at the University of ...

President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to the lowest level of his presidency, ‌with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday. Just 33% of respondents in the four-day survey said they approved of Trump’s performance in the White House, while 64% disapproved. ...