Heavy rain caused severe flooding in parts of northern Italy on November 17, as officials issued a yellow warning for six regions.
Aerial footage captured over the city of Romans d'Isonzo shows roads and green spaces submerged, and homes being surrounded by floodwater.
A boy and an elderly woman were reported missing after three buildings collapsed in the province due to a landslide, the fire service said. Credit: Vigili del Fuoco via Storyful
At least 32 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to officials, after a bridge at a copper and cobalt mine collapsed due to overcrowding.
The incident occurred at the Kalando mine in southeastern Lualaba province on Saturday, the province's interior minister, Roy Kaumbe Mayonde, said on Sunday.
"Despite a formal ban on access to the site because of the heavy rain and the risk of a landslide, wildcat miners forced their way into the quarry," said Mayonde.
The miners rushing across the makeshift bridge, built to get across a flooded trench, made it collapse, he added.
A report by the DRC's Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Support and Guidance Service, or SAEMAPE, said the gunfire from soldiers at the site had sparked panic among the miners.
The miners then rushed to the bridge, resulting in the fall that left them "piled on top of each other, causing the deaths and injuries", it said.
While Mayonde put the death toll at least 32, the report said at least 40 people had lost their lives.
Aniruddha Ghosal Toronto Star Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:03 UTC
Landslides block the road on Khanh Le pass, near the location where a passenger bus was buried by a landslide in Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025.
A landslide buried a passenger bus on a treacherous mountain pass in Vietnam, killing six people and injuring 19 others, as more heavy rain was forecast into the week.
The earth and rocks collapsed onto the bus late Sunday as it was traveling through the Khanh Le pass in the central highlands, state media reported. The winding, 33-kilometer (20-mile) stretch carved into steep mountainsides is scenic and popular with tourists but prone to landslides in the rainy season.
The landslide crushed the front of the bus, trapping many passengers. Rescuers struggled for hours to reach the scene as heavy rain had also caused landslides on both sides of the pass, cutting off access. Rescue teams were only able to reach the bus after midnight, state media said.
The bus was carrying 32 people from Vietnam's financial capital, Ho Chi Minh City and was traveling from Da Lat in Vietnam's central highlands to the coastal city of Nha Trang.
A cold outbreak plunged through the Midwest, Northeast and deep into the South, with freezing temperatures that were among the coldest so early in the season in Florida and other Southeast states.
This cold blast first arrived in the Midwest and Plains states from Nov. 7-8, then took a nosedive into the South on Nov. 9, with the coldest air in place from Nov. 10 through the morning of Nov. 12.
Along the way, it generated some first snowfalls of the season in the Great Lakes snowbelts, Appalachians and interior Northeast, including areas as far south as Atlanta and the coastal Carolinas.
A landslide triggered by heavy rains struck Cibeunying village in Central Java's Cilacap regency on Thursday night, killing three people and leaving 20 others missing as of Friday morning, disaster officials said.
Several homes were buried under soil and rubble when hillside terrain collapsed following hours of rain. Search-and-rescue operations were launched early Friday, with responders divided into five sectors targeting areas most likely to contain victims.
"Search efforts involve heavy machinery, extrication equipment, and manual tools to reach areas that remain inaccessible," said Priyo Prayudha Utama, the rescue operation coordinator, from the disaster site.
Authorities said 46 people were affected in total -- 23 survivors, three fatalities, and 20 missing.
The death toll from a landslide that struck Indonesia's Central Java province rose to 11, while 12 others remain missing as search and rescue operations continued on Sunday, according to an official.
M. Abdullah, head of the Search and Rescue Office in Cilacap, where the landslide occurred, said that authorities are continuing search efforts for the remaining 12 victims after 11 victims have been found dead.
"Hopefully, all 12 victims who are still buried can be found," he said, according to the local broadcaster Kompas TV.
Abdullah mentioned that during Sunday's rescue operation, his team mobilized hundreds of personnel and several heavy machines, including excavators.
"We have deployed 21 excavators, 17 compressor support tools, nine search dogs, and more than 600 personnel," Abdullah said.
On Friday, Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency reported that 20 people were missing and three had been confirmed dead following the landslide in Cilacap on Thursday.
A large waterspout resembling a tornado was spotted off the coast of West Auckland this morning.
Local Robert Waddell said he spotted the spout about 1km off the coast of Muriwai Beach, stretching around 400m in the air with a large base about 100m in diameter.
"It was this huge white column," he said.
"It was heading off towards the Helensville sort of area, but only over the sea obviously.
"And it just kept on going till it hit the beach."
He said he was not nervous about standing out and photographing it because it was headed in the opposite direction.
"I've never seen one before. It was quite spectacular."
A waterspout hundreds of meters high suddenly appeared on the sea in Cai Doi Vam commune (Ca Mau province), then quickly dissipated.
Initial information, at around 2pm on November 13, a waterspout hundreds of meters high suddenly appeared on the sea in Cai Doi Vam commune (Ca Mau province), lasting for a few minutes and then quickly dissipated. The rare weather phenomenon was recorded by people and shared on many social networking sites.
According to local authorities, a waterspout appeared at sea, and there have been no reports of damage to people or property.
Storm Claudia brought heavy rain, flooding, fallen trees and widespread power outages across Portugal, with Lisbon and Setúbal among the hardest-hit regions.
Taiwan evacuated more than 8,300 people ahead of Wednesday's arrival of a much weakened Typhoon Fung-wong that brought record downpours to the mountainous east coast and unleashed floods that rose neck-high in places.
Businesses and schools were shut in most southern areas of the island, with 51 people injured.
Television images showed severe floods in parts of the largely rural eastern county of Yilan, with waters neck-deep as soldiers mounted rescue efforts for those stranded.
More than 1,000 homes were flooded in the harbour town of Suao which received 648 mm (25 inches) of rain on Tuesday, a record for the month, weather officials said.
"The water came in so quickly," said fisherman Hung Chun-yi, who spent the night clearing mud from his home, after its first floor was engulfed in waters 60-cm (2-ft) deep.
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