The rainy season continues to its toll on communities in Sudan, where over 80,000 people have now been affected and 25 have lost their lives.
According to data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), flooding or damage from heavy rainfall has occurred in around 38 localities across the states of Central Darfur, East Darfur, Kassala, North Darfur, North Kordofan, River Nile, Sennar, South Darfur, South Kordofan, West Darfur, West Kordofan and White Nile.
Extraordinary footage shows a fire tornado ripping through Los Angeles County in Gorman on Wednesday.
Firefighters were dispatched to a wildfire, dubbed the Sam Fire, at 4:07 p.m.
Arriving on the scene, Los Angeles County Fire Department said an estimated four acres was ablaze, which they later categorized as a second-alarm brush fire.
Laman Ismayilova Azer News Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:51 UTC
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A mud volcano has erupted in Baku's Garadagh District, Azernews reports. The eruption occurred on the territory of Lokbatan settlement.
Speaking about the volcano eruption, a spokesperson for the Biodiversity Protection Service Arzu Babayeva said that no settlements are located near Lokbatan mud volcano.
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is currently monitoring the Lokbatan mud volcano that previously erupted in 2017.
Lokbatan mud volcano is located on the oilfield site of the same name on the coast of the Caspian sea, 15 kilometers southwest of Baku.
It's one of the five most active mud volcanoes in the world. Since 1810, the volcano has erupted 25 times.
Spotlight on China YouTube Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:59 UTC
0:00 Hail suddenly hits Qinghai, nearly a thousand cars smashed
0:42 Landslide of Changbai Mountain, tourists flee in panic
1:28 Tropical storm Mulan made landfall on the coast of Xuwen, Zhanjiang, local air and rail traffic suspended
Avellino, terrible flood drags everything away in Monteforte, Irpino.
The videos posted on social media by local citizens testify to rivers of water coming from the upper part of the town that fill the streets of the center and take away the cars they meet along the way.
"Maximum attention: go out only if it is essential! I recommend the situation is extremely delicate throughout the upper part of Monteforte, down along via Loffredo and via Nazionale. Caution!".
The mayor of Monteforte Irpino, Costantino Giordano , writes on facebook . This is where the greatest damage and inconvenience are recorded due to the storm that this afternoon strongly beat a part of Irpinia and created damage and fright. On social media there are many videos posted by frightened citizens. In some videos we see rivers of water coming from the upper area and sweeping away the floating cars.
The Loire Valley is known as "the Garden of France". But the garden is withering.
France's worst drought since records began has turned lush vegetation into arid fields of brown crops, shrivelling under what is now the fourth heatwave of the year.
In Vincent Favreau's vegetable farm, where he produces food for a hundred families in the area, the parched earth has stunted the growth of the cabbages. His potato plants are burnt out, producing just half the crop of a normal year.
The intervention of the Fire Brigade was necessary in several streets of Potenza, flooded by a storm that struck the Lucanian capital in the afternoon. In particular, the greatest difficulties were reported in the lower part of the city, in the commercial area of via del Gallittello and in the square of the central station.
In addition, teams of firefighters are at work in other municipalities of the Potentino, in particular in Val d'Agri, where the strong wind has also caused the fall of some trees.
Due to bad weather, in the province of Matera, inconveniences were reported in Grassano, where the fire brigade intervened on provincial road 8, near the bailey bridge, to clear the roadway from a fallen tree.
Amara Amaryah Yahoo News Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:20 UTC
A polar bear attacked a woman in Norway in the remote Arctic Svalbard islands. The polar bear injured the French tourist, leaving her with several wounds.
The unnamed woman was part of a 25-group camping trip in the Svalbard region. The group was camping at Sveasletta, in the central part of the Svalbard archipelago, which is roughly 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of the Norwegian mainland.
Authorities confirmed that the wounds were not life-threatening. Chief superintendent Stein Olav Bredli said that officials "badly injured" the bear and following "a professional assessment" officials put it to sleep.
"The French woman suffered injuries to an arm. Shots were fired at the polar bear, which was scared away from the area," he said. He did not disclose further details about the injuries. A helicopter swiftly flew her to the hospital in Longyearbyen.
Comment: Even though polar bears look cute, they are still wild animals who at times see humans as food. There are many stories of attacks by polar bears.
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