Hundreds evacuated as forest fire sends smoke over Berlin
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest strewn with unexploded ammunition south of Berlin...
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Monsoon flooding forces thousands to evacuate homes in Myanmar
Some 50,000 people in Myanmar evacuated their homes after days of heavy monsoon rains left villages inundated and swept away bridges, while authorities scrambled to...
Hawaii volcano erupts again, prompting new evacuations
The Kilauea volcano erupted again on Tuesday, spewing toxic gases out of two new vents and prompting authorities to call for an immediate evacuation of...
Syria evacuations of besieged towns ‘restart after two-day halt’
The evacuation of Syrian civilians and fighters from four besieged towns, part of a swap deal between the warring sides, resumed on Friday after a...
Evacuation of rebels, villagers begins under swap deal in Syria
Buses began evacuating hundreds of people from two rebel-besieged Shi’ite villages in north-west Syria on Friday and rebels began to leave two towns near Damascus...
Thousands remain in shelters as crews work to fix California dam channel
Tens of thousands of Northern California residents remained in shelters on Tuesday as engineers worked to shore up a crumbling overflow channel and drain the...
Aleppo evacuation suspended amid dispute over villages (Update)
The evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after pro-government militias demanded that wounded people should...
Wildfires in California, New Mexico trigger hundreds of evacuations
Hundreds of people have evacuated to escape a wildfire in coastal Southern California and a larger blaze in rural New Mexico as hot weather feeds...
Convoy leads Canada fire evacuees through burning city to safety
Convoys of evacuees stranded by a wildfire raging in and around the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray made their way on Friday through the...
Canadian wildfire grows tenfold, forces more evacuations
A catastrophic wildfire that has forced all 88,000 residents to flee Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada exploded tenfold in size on Thursday, cutting off evacuees...
Record numbers evacuated in Malaysia’s worst floods in decades
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by authorities in five northern states of Malaysia hit by the Southeast Asian’ nation’s worst...
Cyprus and Germany sign evacuation deal
By Stefanos Evripidou Germany and Cyprus signed a cooperation agreement on Thursday for the evacuation of German citizens in the event of crises or natural...
Plane fighting Australia fires crashes, kills pilot
By Thuy Ong and Lincoln Feast A plane dousing wildfires in bushland south of Australia’s biggest city, Sydney, crashed into a national park on Thursday,...