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WASHINGTON — Rep. Luz Rivas had barely begun her day in Washington when her cellphone rang at 7 a.m. The Hurst fire had erupted around 10:30 the night before and — fueled by high winds and…
A city devastated; neighbors coming to its aid; the hunt for a scapegoat: Though the Angelenos enduring wildfires today lead lives dramatically different from those of the people who…
WASHINGTON — While firefighters continue to battle the Los Angeles County fires, California’s Sen. Alex Padilla is introducing a package of bills to increase their pay and create housing…
Craig Fugate, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Obama administration, has seen a lot of natural disasters. He knows the difference between destruction and utter…
As L.A. County fires continue to wreak havoc, a fire-tracking app run by a Bay Area nonprofit is gaining popularity. Watch Duty, launched in 2021, combines publicly available maps of fire…
Plane Crash at Muan International Airport A devastating plane crash at South Korea's Muan International Airport has left 179 people feared dead. The incident occurred on Sunday morning…
KHAO LAK, Thailand — Watana Sittirachot was raised at an orphanage in Thailand for children affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami. Now, 20 years after the disaster changed the course of his…
Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the time she got to a hospital in Indianapolis,…
Dozens of flights have been delayed and disrupted after a powerful storm bringing strong winds and heavy rain has barrelled over popular tourist destination Costa del Sol in Spain.…
The search for missing people in the area of eastern Spain hit by severe flooding continued on Monday, almost a week after the disaster claimed more than 200 lives. Attention is now…
LONDON (AP) — Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster were taking their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured…
The Yemen-based Huthi group has been attacking shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in what they call a show of solidarity with Palestinians over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. A social…
As the United Nations prepared to begin a polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, a U.N. humanitarian worker there said multiple evacuation orders by the Israeli military…
Screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken August 19, 2024 The posts circulated after a plane crashed in Brazil's Sao Paulo state on August 9, 2024, killing all 62 people on board…
EU member states are sending aid to Greece to help battle the massive wildfire burning across woodland north-east of Athens. The assistance comes as the Greek government requests the…
Screenshot of the post with the altered clip, taken on July 30, 2024 The post contains a 10-second video with the logo of News18, an Indian subsidiary of the international news channel…
Reports from northern Ethiopia say at least 12 people have drowned after their boat sank in the Amhara region. The wooden vessel was taking passengers to a funeral across the Tekeze river,…
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