natural disaster

Kyodo/APP Tokyo:A strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.2 struck Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido early Monday, prompting brief transport disruptions but causing no major damage or casualties, authorities said. The quake hit at…

AFP/APP Jakarta: At least 19 people have been found dead and two more are missing after a landslide in central Indonesia, local authorities said on Sunday.  The dead and two survivors were evacuated from two landslide-hit villages in…

AFP/APP Wellington: The victims and families affected by the 2019 New Zealand volcano disaster, which claimed 22 lives, were awarded total damages of NZ$10 million (US$6 million) on Friday. The sum must be paid by five companies that…

AFP/APP Beijing: Dozens of people were buried and three confirmed dead when a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China on Monday. The pre-dawn landslide buried 18 homes and sparked the evacuation of more than…

News Desk United Nations: The world's children in 2024 are likely to see increased exposure to violence and war as well as economic hardship, the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) warned in a flagship study released on Tuesday. At the…

News Desk Peshawar: The catastrophic flooding in Pakistan in 2022 has increased five-fold the burden of malaria cases in the country, reveals WHO’s annual malaria report, delving into the nexus between climate change and malaria.…

APP Peshawar: The World Health Organization's annual malaria report highlights the alarming impact of the 2022 catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, revealing a five-fold increase in malaria cases in the country. This surge in cases has…

APP Peshawar: Under the guidance of the Relief, Rehabilitation, and Settlement Department Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) devised the Winter Contingency Plan for 2023-24 on Wednesday. The plan…

Xinhua/APP Nairobi:  Kenya on Wednesday established a command centre for flood emergency response and communication to document and report all flood disaster information from across the country as the number of people killed by raging…

Xinhua/APP Bbelin: Heavy snowfall in Germany has caused severe traffic disruptions in several states across the country and led to the deaths of two people in car accidents. The German Weather Service (DWD) warned on Wednesday of icy…