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    Record-setting Hurricane Dorian keeps pounding north Bahamas

    02 Sep 2019

    The storm's top sustained winds decreased slightly to 170 mph (275 kph) as its westward movement slowed, crawling along Grand Bahama island early Monday at 2 mph (4 kph) in what forecasters said would be a daylong assault.

    Storm Ciaran kills 7, lashes Europe with strong winds and rain

    02 Nov 2023

    Truck driver killed by falling tree in France; woman dies in Spain when tree falls on her; roof ripped off house in Jersey; hundreds of flights cancelled to and from Amsterdam.

    VIDEO: UK issues rare 'danger to life' warning over Storm Dennis

    16 Feb 2020

    The government weather agency issued a rare red warning for the area, saying there was a risk of "significant impacts from flooding" that included a "danger to life from fast flowing water, extensive flooding to property and road closures."

    Tornado rips through US city, damages buildings and power lines

    03 May 2021

    "Calhoun City was hit hard tonight," the county sheriff, Greg Pollan, said on Facebook. "Light poles have been snapped off. Trees in a few homes. Trees on vehicles. Damage to several businesses."

    Nearly 1 million residents evacuated as powerful Typhoon Goni roars towards Philippines

    31 Oct 2020

    "We are having a hard time with COVID-19, and then here comes another disaster," Senator Christopher Go, the top aide of President Rodrigo Duterte, told a virtual news conference.

    Sierra Leone loses centuries-old cotton tree, a symbol of freedom, in rainstorm

    25 May 2023

    President Julius Maada Bio called the toppling of the famed tree "a great loss to the nation" as crowds gathered to look at the wrecked trunk.

    Dorian kills five in Bahamas, US evacuates eastern coast

    03 Sep 2019

    Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis on Monday termed the hurricane a "historic tragedy" for the archipelago. US forecasters said the storm would keep hammering the Bahamas overnight into Tuesday.

    UN chief calls for greater action to address climate change

    14 Sep 2019

    World leaders attending the upcoming UN Climate Action Summit are being urged to show up armed not with speeches but with plans to achieve carbon neutrality, reduce emissions and improve adaptation.

    Hurricane Dorian death toll climbs to 43

    07 Sep 2019

    More than 260 residents of the brutally damaged Abaco Islands arrived in the capital city of Nassau after spending more than seven hours on a government-chartered ferry, a second of which was expected to arrive overnight.

    Hurricane Dorian skirts US coast, soaking the Carolinas

    06 Sep 2019

    Floodwaters rose to a foot (30 cm) or more in low-lying parts of the historic South Carolina city of Charleston, where more than 7 inches (18 cm) of rain fell in some areas, officials said, with another half-inch or more expected overnight.

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