Disaster

The earthquake was felt in several western provinces of Iran, but the hardest hit province was Kermanshah, which announced three days of mourning. More than 300 people were killed in Iran when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake...

News Hour: A mild earthquake has rocked the Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh in the morning, leaving high-rise buildings shaken in the cities and leading to panic among citizens. According to Somoy TV, the earthquake originated...

News Hour: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Caledonia on Tuesday in the tectonically active Pacific region, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said. The tremor hit at a depth of 29...

News Hour: Torrential rains in Nicaragua have left at least five people dead as rivers burst their banks, flooding homes, and damaging roads and bridges, the government said on Thursday. Two other people are missing in...

News Hour Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact. The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact...

News Hour Three weeks after the devastating crossing of Category 5 Hurricane Maria over Dominica, islanders are in dire need of water, electricity, food and other supplies. However, the most urgent need for the long term...

News Hour: UNICEF said it needs $6.2 million to meet the urgent needs of children affected by Hurricane Maria in Dominica. The category 5 storm, which hit the Caribbean island on September 19, forced 65,000 people,...

News Hour Australia has sent a naval ship to help evacuate thousands of people from Vanuatu’s Ambae island, where a volcano is threatening a major eruption. The Vanuatu government announced last week that all 11,000 residents...

News Hour A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook southern Mexico on Saturday and spread alarm in the capital, where rescuers temporarily suspended a search for survivors of a bigger tremor earlier this week out of fear of...

News Hour: In the first week since Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, the British Red Cross appeal has raised over £1.3 million. The public has donated over £650,000 since the British Red Cross appeal was launched...