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Are catastrophic floods Pakistan’s new normal?

More than one-third of Pakistan is submerged and at least 33 million people are affected because of massive flooding.

Al Jazeera

Waterborne Diseases Spread among Flood Victims in Pakistan

Pakistani health officials on Thursday reported an outbreak of waterborne diseases in areas hit by recent record-breaking flooding, as authorities stepped up efforts to ensure the provision of clean drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people who lost their homes in the disaster. Diarrhea, skin diseases and eye infections…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Glasgow weather warning issued for heavy rain as motorists urged to take care

The City of Glasgow is set to be hit with heavy showers and dreary weather, as the Met Office issues a yellow weather warning for rain, with motorists urged to stay safe in the difficult driving conditions

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South Pakistan braces for yet more flooding as waters flow down from north

Southern Pakistan braced for yet more flooding on Thursday as a surge of water flowed down the Indus river, threatening further devastation in a country already a third inundated, in a growing disaster blamed on climate change.

Reuters

Pakistan flood victims struggle to access emergency relief

While international aid has begun arriving in flood-devastated Pakistan, residents of the badly affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the north are struggling to access the aid. A FRANCE 24 team reporting from the Hassanabad district found women and children unable to elbow out the young and strong desperate to reach…

France 24

Waterborne diseases spread among flood victims in Pakistan

Pakistani health officials are reporting an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the flood-affected areas

The Independent UK

Brisbane City Council moves on flood review recommendations

Brisbane City Council says it has completed 12 recommendations from this year's flood review as the opposition ramps up calls for more sandbagging facilities and details on new evacuation centres.

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Deadly floods are wreaking global havoc

Torrential downpours claimed the lives of more than 1,000 in Pakistan, where almost half a million people are in relief camps. A massive deluge crashed across Mississippi in the past week, leaving the roughly 150,000 residents of capital city Jackson without reliable access to clean drinking water. Cascades of rain…

The Times of India

Pakistan: Major health risks unfolding amid floods

According to a preliminary assessment conducted by WHO and humanitarian partners, the current level of devastation is much more severe than that caused by floods in Pakistan in previous years, including those that devastated the country in 2010," said Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Disasters Emergency Committee launches urgent Pakistan flood relief appeal

The DEC, made up of 15 UK charities, is urging everyone to donate whatever they can spare to help relief efforts.

The Independent UK

Disagreement over flood gauge accuracy in Wollombi Brook

Flood-affected residents have raised concerns about "inaccurate" gauges in Wollombi Brook.

Newcastle Herald

Pakistan steps up aid efforts after ravaging floods

Millions trapped by monsoon floods await help amid threats of more flooding.

Al Jazeera

Health officials warn of major outbreaks of disease after severe floods in Pakistan

Diarrhoea and malaria cases spread, with risk of dysentery and cholera, as millions of displaced people forced to drink flood water

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan PM Sharif thanks Modi for concern over losses caused by massive floods

Floods triggered by unprecedented monsoon rains have caused widespread havoc across Pakistan, killing over 1,100 people and displacing 33 million or one-seventh of the country's population

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First came the heatwaves, then the floods: Why Pakistan is on the frontline of the climate crisis

“Literally a third of the country is under water,” Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman warned this week, after the death toll from the nation’s devastating floods topped 1,100 after record monsoon rains. The torrential downpours come after a series of heat waves, highlighting Pakistan’s vulnerability to climate change.

Wales Online

Child dies after being struck by giant hailstone in freak Spanish storm

Many other people were injured by the huge ice-stones during the 10-minute deluge near Girona on Tuesday evening

Reuters

From furnace to flood: world's hottest city in Pakistan now under water

Not long ago, Sara Khan, principal at a school for disadvantaged girls in Jacobabad in southern Pakistan, looked on in alarm as some students passed out from the heat - the city was the world's hottest at one point in May.

The Times of India

Two killed, five children feared drowned as boat engaged in flood relief operation capsizes in UP's Ghazipur

VARANASI: Two persons died while five children were missing after a boat engaged in Ganga flood relief operations capsized due to alleged overloading near Athahatha village under the limits of Revatipur police station in Ghazipur district late Wednesday afternoon.

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The Hindu

Yogi Adityanath conducts aerial survey in eastern U.P., meets flood victims

The Chief Minister said that due to heavy rains in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, water levels in the rivers have increased leading to floods in few districts.

The Guardian - US

Jackson water crisis heaps more disruption on city’s schoolchildren

Children in Mississippi capital to return to virtual learning: ‘We have no idea when our kids will go back in person’

Irish Mirror

Girl, 1, dies in Spain after hailstone shower described as '10 minutes of terror'

The hail falling from the sky were up to 11 centimetres wide and caused destruction across the area to cars and homes

The Guardian - UK

Toddler dies in Catalonia after being struck by large hailstone

The 20-month-old girl, who has not been named, was hit by the hailstone during a storm in La Bisbal d’Empordà

Axios

Pakistan floods are tied to global warming, and exceed past events

Large parts of provinces are under water.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Death Toll from Seasonal Sudan Flooding at 100

Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Sudan killed at least 100 people since the start of the rainy season in May, an official said Wednesday. The downpours, which began earlier than normal this year, also injured at least 96 others, said Brig. Gen. Abdul-Jalil Abdul-Rahim, spokesman…

The Independent UK

Sudan official: Death toll from seasonal flooding at 100

A Sudanese official says flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Sudan have killed at least 100 people since the start of the rainy season in May

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