German ICUs fill up with younger COVID-19 patients
Fire chief tells families of the 159 people unaccounted for after a Florida building collapse to have hope
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(CNN)The fire chief helping to lead search and rescue efforts at the South Florida building collapse that killed at least four people had a message Friday for the families of the 159 others unaccounted for. Have hope. “There’s always hope,” Miami-Dade Fire … Read More
Mount Nyiragongo: Half a million without water in DR Congo – charity
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Displaced people – including children – have been seen queuing to get drinking water at a temporary camp in Sake – Reuters Nearly 500,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been left without clean drinking water after a … Read More
Hundreds of thousands evacuated as cyclone bears down on India
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Waves crash ashore during high tide in the Bay Of Bengal before Cyclone Yaas arrives in Digha, south of Kolkata, eastern India, on Tuesday. Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA-EFE May 25 (UPI) — Cyclone Yaas churned closer to northeastern India on Tuesday as … Read More
DRC volcano: More than 100 children missing, earthquakes hit bordering area, Rwanda
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Congolese residents of Goma flee from Mount Nyiragongo volcano as it erupts over Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo Saturday evening. File Photo by Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE Congolese residents of Goma arrive in Rwanda Sunday after fleeing from Mount Nyiragongo volcano … Read More
Powerful Earthquake Rocks Iran Causing Vast Destruction
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A shallow magnitude 5.3 earthquake was reported early morning near Bojnurd, North Khorasan, Iran. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Monday 17 May 2021 at 3:04 am local time at a shallow depth … Read More
Israel Gaza conflict: Netanyahu says strikes to ‘continue at full force’
Israel’s military operation against Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza will continue “with full force”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. “We are acting now, for as long as necessary, to restore calm… It will take time,” Mr. Netanyahu warned. Gaza … Read More