June 19, 2026
Roofs and walls collapsed across Dera Ismail Khan and Bajaur as a powerful windstorm and torrential rain swept the province on June 19; incident reports counted seven dead and eight injured, while the provincial disaster authority put the rain-related toll over the past day at nine killed.
December 1, 2025
A man helps a woman trapped in a partially submerged house, in a flooded area in Wellampitiya on the outskirts of Colombo on November 29, 2025.— AFP Over 15,000 homes were destroyed, sending 78,000 to shelters. The army rescues 69 bus passengers, including a German tourist. The government is appealing for international aid to support the communities. The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 334 on Sunday, Sri Lanka’s disaster agency said on Sunday, with many others missing. It is the worst natural disaster to hit the island in two decades, and officials said
October 19, 2025
US President Donald Trump welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House in Washington, DC, US, October 17, 2025. US President Donald Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russia’s terms for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine at a White House meeting on Friday, warning that President Vladimir Putin has threatened to “destroy” Ukraine if he does not comply, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. During the meeting, Trump insisted that Zelensky hand over the entire eastern Donbas region to Russia, repeatedly repeating talking points the Russian president had made in their call a day earlier,
July 25, 2025
The Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity cuisine, in the midst of a hunger crisis, in the city of Gaza, July 25, 2025. – Reuters Leaders of Britain, France and Germany said on Friday that the “humanitarian disaster” in the Gaza Strip must be over now, “as the Palestinian territory is facing a deeper crisis. “We call on the Israeli government to immediately raise restrictions on the flow of help and to urgently allow the UN and humanitarian NGOs to carry out their work to take action against starvation,” they said in a joint statement published by Berlin.
—فائل فوٹو گزشتہ 5 دہائیوں کے دوران موسمیاتی تبدیلیوں کے باعث دنیا بھر میں لاکھوں اموات اور کھربوں ڈالرز کا نقصان ہوا۔ یہ انکشاف اقوامِ متحدہ کے عالمی موسمیاتی ادارے (ڈبلیو ایم او) کی جانب سے عالمی موسمیاتی دن کے موقع پر جاری رپورٹ میں کیا گیا۔ رپورٹ کے مطابق 1970ء سے2021ء تک موسمیاتی آفات سے دنیا بھر میں 20 لاکھ سے زائد اموات ہوئیں جبکہ عالمی معیشت کو 4300 ارب سے زائد ڈالرز کا نقصان ہوا۔ ڈبلیو ایم او کے سیکریٹری جنرل پروفیسر Celeste Saulo نے بتایا ہے کہ اگرچہ معاشی نقصانات میں اضافہ ہو رہا ہے مگر موسمیاتی
February 26, 2025
Listen to the article Tickets for the long -awaited continuation of the infamous Fyre Festival, which collapsed in 2017, have been officially released. The founder of the event, Billy McFarland, promises that the Fyre Festival 2 will be a much more successful affair, despite the large luggage left by the catastrophic first edition, which led to McFarland’s widespread anger, treatment and belief for fraud. The Fyre’s original festival was once invoiced as a luxurious music festival on a private island in the Bahamas, became synonymous with failure, as the attendees were welcomed by underground accommodation, lack of organization and musical
January 16, 2025
Listen to the article A tragic incident involving migrants trying to reach Spain from West Africa may have claimed the lives of up to 50 people, including 44 Pakistanis, according to migrant rights group Walking Borders. The group said on Thursday that the boat, which left Mauritania on January 2, was carrying 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis. Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people from the boat on Wednesday. The migrants were part of a larger wave attempting to make the perilous journey across the Atlantic to the Canary Islands. Walking Borders, based in Madrid and Navarre, revealed the boat had been
December 15, 2024
A view shows damage caused by Cyclone Chido, in Kaweni, Mayotte, France in this screenshot from a social media video, obtained by Reuters on December 14, 2024. — Reuters Mayotte, France was hit by a powerful cyclone that officials warned could be the most destructive storm to hit French overseas territory in nearly a century. France’s deputy interior minister, Bruno Retaille, expressed concerns on Saturday about a “heavy” toll from Cyclone Chindo as early reports indicated widespread devastation, including the complete destruction of slum areas on the islands. The storm damaged and destroyed government buildings, the hospital and makeshift housing
Adani Group’s logo is seen on the facade of one of its buildings on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, April 13, 2021. — Reuters India’s conglomerate Adani Group said on Wednesday it has lost nearly $55 billion in a stock market slump since U.S. prosecutors last week charged its founder and other officials with fraud. The November 20 bombshell indictment in New York accused billionaire industrialist founder Gautam Adani and several of his subordinates of deliberately misleading international investors as part of a bribery scheme. He said they had “conceived a scheme to offer, authorize, make and promise to make
September 12, 2024
A drone view shows an oil spill in the waters off Manila Bay in Pamarawan, Malolos, Bulacan province, Philippines on July 29, 2024. — Reuters MANILA: The Philippine government said on Thursday it had completed the recovery of a cargo of fuel from a sunken oil tanker in Manila Bay, averting an “environmental disaster”. The Philippine-flagged MT Terranova went down with 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil on July 25 in rough seas stirred up by typhoon Gaemi, killing one crew member. The Coast Guard had warned that if the fuel had leaked it could have caused the country’s
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