Rain and strong winds battered central New Zealand on Thursday, threatening further damage just days after a powerful earthquake killed two people and devastated parts of the country's South Island with huge landslides.
Climate change has made deadly heatwaves and hurricanes, along with droughts and flooding, both more frequent and more intense in recent years, according to a UN report released Tuesday.
Strong winds are expected in the country on Tuesday along with dusty conditions and low visibility in some places, the Qatar Met department has said. Offshore areas, too, are likely to experience strong winds and high seas.
Twenty-six people have been killed in accidents related to flash floods in parts of Egypt this week, state television reported on its website Saturday.
Poor visibility is expected at some places in the early hours of Friday, the Qatar Met department has said.
Some parts of Qatar experienced rain for the first time this season and there could be more of it on Thursday, according to the weather report.
The usually frenetic streets of Hong Kong were deserted Friday as the city was battered by Typhoon Haima after the storm left a trail of deaths and damage in the Philippines.
One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Philippines killed at least four people as it destroyed houses, tore roofs off schools and uprooted giant trees on Thursday.
Severe flooding in central Vietnam has killed at least 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said Monday, as the country braced for further destruction with a typhoon barrelling closer.
Typhoon Sarika lashed the main Philippine island of Luzon on Sunday, ripping off roofs, toppling power pylons and forcing more than 12,000 people to flee to safer ground, officials said.
Gunmen raided the house of a US aid worker in central Niger overnight, killing his two guards before driving him off across the desert towards Mali, the mayor of the town said on Saturday.
The Philippines faces what could be ‘the most damaging’ storm this year as Typhoon Sarika headed for the archipelago's heavily-populated main island, officials said Saturday.
