Beijing Records Heaviest Rainfall in at Least 140 Years, Causing Severe Flooding and 21 Deaths August 3, 2023 By Andy Wong and Huizhong Wu ZHUOZHOU, Hebei (AP) — China`s capital has recorded its heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years over the past few...
A Deadly Heat Wave is Blanketing the South and Spreading East June 30, 2023 By Michael Goldberg, Adrian Sanz and Jim Salter An oppressive heat wave blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and one in Louisiana blanketed the South on...
Beijing Hospital Fire Deaths Rise to 29, Mostly Patients April 20, 2023 BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a fire at a Beijing hospital rose to 29, including 26 patients, authorities...
Senate Leader Schumer Urges Federal Safety Probe into Freight Railroads March 15, 2023 WASHINGTON —U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday urged the National Transportation Safety Board to launch an investigation into...
Nine Arrested After Bridge Collapses in India, Killing 134 November 1, 2022 By Ajit Solanki, Aijaz Hussain, Krutika Pathi and Sheikh Saaliq MORBI, India (AP) — Police in western India arrested nine people on Monday as they investigated the collapse of a...
Storms Blamed in Deaths of 3 in Michigan, Ohio, Arkansas August 31, 2022 MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Severe storms that brought damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to parts of the Midwest...
Pakistan Flooding Deaths Pass 1,000 in ‘Climate Catastrophe’ August 29, 2022 By Zarar Khan ISLAMABAD (AP) — Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate...
16 Dead, 18 Missing in Flash Flood in Western China August 19, 2022 BEIJING (AP) — A sudden rainstorm in western China triggered a landslide that diverted a river and caused flash flooding...
Officials: Fire at Coptic Church in Cairo Kills 41, Hurts 14 August 15, 2022 By Samy Magdy CAIRO (AP) — A fire ripped through a packed Coptic Orthodox church during morning services in Egypt’s capital on Sunday,...
Teen’s Death is Latest Tragedy in Flood-Ravaged Kentucky August 12, 2022 The mysterious death of a high school athlete who spent days helping his fellow eastern Kentuckians clean up from historic...