NEWSWORTHY
With song and sadness, Puerto Rico marks year since Hurricane Maria devastated island
Clapping and raising their hands to the sky, hundreds of people clad in white gathered at an 18th-century fort in the Puerto Rican capital on Thursday to remember the thousands who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria as the U.S. territory struggles to ...
Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials Tuesday in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by high water days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with more than 10,000 evacuees around the state not to ...
'Threat becomes reality' as Hurricane Florence lays drenching, blowing siege to Carolina coast
The big slosh has begun, and the consequences could be disastrous. Hurricane Florence's leading edge battered the Carolina coast Thursday, bending trees and shooting frothy seawater over streets on the Outer Banks, as the hulking storm closed in with 105 mph (165 kph) winds for ...
Amid fears the figure will rise further, the number of people dead or in critical condition in Hokkaido following Thursday’s powerful earthquake has risen to 18.
Osaka plans to offer multilingual disaster information for foreign visitors
Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui said Friday he wants to start providing information for foreign visitors in the event of a disaster. The plan to develop a multilingual email system was announced after many foreigners faced difficulties following the closure of Kansai International Airport earlier this ...
Neon lights above Sapporo's famed nightlife district darkened by quake
The neon lights of Sapporo's famed Susukino entertainment district were still off Thursday night, the area's revelers replaced by people huddled in hotel lobby entrances or queuing for water and other bare essentials following the powerful earthquake that jolted the nation's northernmost island of ...
Brazil's National Museum said Wednesday that centuries-old Torah scrolls, considered to be some of Judaism's oldest documents, had been moved before a massive fire ravaged the place and gutted much of the largest collections of national history artifacts in Latin America. Questions about the fate ...
India's flood-hit Kerala state faces shortages of 'rat fever' drug
India's flood-ravaged Kerala state is facing shortages of a drug that fights an infectious bacterial disease after the worst flooding in a century, forcing authorities to turn to other states to help ramp up supplies. Suspected cases of leptospirosis, a waterborne disease known locally as ...
Trump says 'we did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico' after being told 2017 storm killed almost 3,000
President Donald Trump lauded the U.S. response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year just a day after the commonwealth said almost 3,000 people died from the storm. "I think we did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico," Trump told reporters Wednesday at the ...
More than 50,000 evacuated in Myanmar as homes, shops flooded after dam fails
More than 50,000 people have evacuated their homes in central Myanmar after part of a dam failed on Wednesday, inundating communities and damaging a bridge on a major highway, officials said. The incident spotlights safety concerns about dams in Southeast Asia following last month's collapse ...
Report: Nearly 3,000 deaths in Puerto Rico linked to Hurricane Maria, especially among poor, elderly
Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 people in Puerto Rico in the desperate, sweltering months after the storm — almost double the previous government estimate — with the elderly and impoverished most affected, according to an independent study ordered by the U.S. territory. The new estimate ...
Residents of Hawaii were bracing for a rare landfall by a powerful hurricane as they stocked up on water, food and emergency supplies. Hurricane Lane, which weakened slightly to a Category 4 storm overnight, is packing 155-mile-per-hour (250-kph) winds and was expected to reach the ...
