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Fifteen individuals are supposed to be dead and nine are missing on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu as devastating downpours cause flooding and avalanches. Fourteen victims found in the equivalent overwhelmed nursing home while the other...

Thousands of children and families living in the Rohingya refugee camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar in south-eastern Bangladesh are at risk from flooding and landslides caused by heavy rainfall in the last few days....

Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in the southern Indian state of Kerala has killed at least 73 people, shut down an airport and displaced more than 85,000 people, officials have said. The state government said...

Rescue workers, police and troops in Japan battled Monday to reach people feared trapped by devastating flooding and landslides after days of record rainfall killed at least 75 people. As the rains finally began to ease,...

Flooding and landslides have killed at least 50 people and left dozens missing in western areas of Japan. Most of the deaths have occurred in Hiroshima prefecture, which has been hit by torrential rain since Thursday....

News Hour: Weeks of torrential monsoon rains and catastrophic flooding in three countries of South Asia – Nepal, India, and Bangladesh – have devastated the lives of millions of children and families. UNICEF estimates that almost...

News Hour: Natural disasters and pre-existing economic fragility are escalating the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The UN Migration Agency (IOM) is working with communities in Yemen to help them better prepare for or prevent future disasters,...

News Hour: The Australian city of Rockhampton in Central Queensland suffered major flooding on Thursday. Despite the initial weekend forecast of a 9.4-meter peak on the Fitzroy River, the warnings were later downgraded to 8.8 meters....

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $150 million dollar loan for a comprehensive project to restore degraded ecosystems and improve water resource management in the flood-prone and polluted Qihe River Basin, which...