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Nearly 14,500 homes have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan after water levels spiked in a nearby river, local authorities said on Tuesday. Thousands to evacuate their homes in the Orenburg region, located some 1,200 kilometres southeast of Moscow, when a dam on the Ural River burst last week under the pressure of surging waters. Water levels in the river have since been fluctuating in different parts of the region. Experts have cited multiple possible causes of the floods: large snow reserves in the area melting, deep freezing of the soil which doesn’t allow it to absorb ra...
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A mandatory evacuation order for families with children has been expanded to 47 more front-line settlements in Kharkiv Oblast, Governor Oleh Syniehubov announced on April 11. Russia recently intensified attacks against Ukraine's second-largest city with the use of missiles, glide bombs, and drones, reportedly destroying almost all of its energy infrastructure. The settlements, which lay close to Ukraine's border with Russia, fall within the region's Kharkiv, Bohokhudiv, and Izium districts, the governor said. A total of 182 children reportedly live there. Subscribe to newsletter War Notes "Eva...
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A mandatory evacuation order for families with children has been expanded to 47 more front-line settlements in Kharkiv Oblast, Governor Oleh Syniehubov announced on April 11. Russia recently intensified attacks against Ukraine's second-largest city with the use of missiles, glide bombs, and drones, reportedly destroying almost all of its energy infrastructure. The settlements, which lay close to Ukraine's border with Russia, fall within the region's Kharkiv, Bohokhudiv, and Izium districts, the governor said. A total of 182 children reportedly live there. Subscribe to newsletter War Notes "Eva...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
A mandatory evacuation order for families with children has been expanded to 47 more front-line settlements in Kharkiv Oblast, Governor Oleh Syniehubov announced on April 11. Russia recently intensified attacks against Ukraine's second-largest city with the use of missiles, glide bombs, and drones, reportedly destroying almost all of its energy infrastructure. The settlements, which lay close to Ukraine's border with Russia, fall within the region's Kharkiv, Bohokhudiv, and Izium districts, the governor said. A total of 182 children reportedly live there. Subscribe to newsletter War Notes "Eva...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has called the situation in Russia and Kazakhstan "very, very tense" as fast-melting snow and ice swell rivers in Russia's southern Urals and northern Kazakhstan. Both countries have declared a state of emergency after battling the rising rivers for over five days. Kazakhstan has evacuated 96,272 people since the start of the floods. Russia itself has evacuated more than 7,000, mostly from the Orenburg region. The floods in Orenburg began with the collapse of a dam on Saturday. Although President Vladimir Putin is frequently shown on Russian state television ...
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Russia continued to launch missiles at Kyiv on Monday – the third time in five days – as it mounts an escalating aerial assault on Ukrainian regions. Nine people were injured in the strike on the capital, the Ukraine Rescue Service said. The Pecherskyi district was hit the hardest. Ukraine’s National Police said missile debris damaged homes in two districts and a college gym in another district. Russia fired two ballistic missiles at Kyiv from occupied Crimea in the daylight attack but both warheads were intercepted above the city, said Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administrati...
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A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted for the third time since December on Thursday, spewing streams of molten lava into the surrounding area. The renowned Blue Lagoon geothermal spa was evacuated, as the eruption disrupted the heat and hot water supplies for thousands of residents. Living on a volcano in southern Italy: Between worry, resignation and preparing for the worstResidents of towns across the western Reykjanes peninsula have been instructed to conserve water and electricity as supplies dwindle. Current water reserves are expected to last only a few more hours, while the restorat...
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The fire, which engulfed the Gandhi Hospital in northern Tehran, was contained on Thursday evening. The blaze burnt the building's exterior facade. There were no fatalities reported so far, a spokesperson for the Tehran Fire Department spokesperson said, adding that authorities were investigating the cause of the incident. The fire started at 15:30 GMT - 19:00 local time. State TV said earlier that the area around the hospital, which is located in northern Tehran, has been cordoned off and the hospital was evacuated.
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Nicosia (AFP) - A first group of evacuees from Israel arrived in Cyprus on Tuesday aboard a US-chartered cruise ship as the island's authorities announced plans for a twice-daily ferry link for those wishing to leave. The 159 evacuees on board the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Sea primarily consisted of elderly individuals, families with children and tourists. The ship, which left the port of Haifa in northern Israel, docked at around 6:15 am (0315 GMT) in the island's second city Limassol. Security was tight with armed police and sniffer dogs. US ambassador Julie Fisher was at ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US State Department said Friday that ongoing fighting between military factions in Sudan made it too risky to try to evacuate embassy personnel from Khartoum. The Pentagon has mobilized in the east Africa region to bring out US staff from the Sudan capital. However, "due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and the closure of the airport, it's currently not safe to undertake a US government coordinated evac," said State Department spokesman Vedant Patel. The State Department has sought to gather US staff in one location in the Sudan capital to better protect t...
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