Disaster

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Landslides and flooding caused by heavy rains killed at least 19 people in Brazil’s most populous…

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Australia and New Zealand sent surveillance flights on Monday to assess damage in Tonga, isolated…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption began to recede…

NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators sought answers Monday for why safety doors failed to close when fire broke out in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hospitals worked Monday to save the lives of multiple people gravely injured by smoke in a…

The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be…

SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (Reuters) – The rapid intensification that turned this week’s Typhoon Rai into the strongest storm to hit…

MANILA, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Philippine officials and residents of areas that bore the brunt of Typhoon Rai pleaded for…

AMSTERDAM, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors on Monday began three days of closing arguments during which they will make…

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the fifth time since taking office less than a year ago, President Joe Biden is taking…