#flood

Heavy rains on Monday saw the fire service in Nicosia respond to several incidents including flooded basements, blocked stormwater drains and people trapped on flooded roads. The fire service said ...

Larnaca is continuing its anti-flood works, with the project in the area of Kamares now ahead of schedule, the city’s district self-government organisation (EOA) said on Thursday. Works on ...

Authorities in southern Spain have evacuated residential areas out of fear a major river could overflow and warned of landslides caused by bursting aquifers on Friday after Storm Leonardo swept ...

An elderly man died in flood waters in Portugal and a woman was swept away by a swollen river in Spain after trying to rescue her dog, as Storm Leonardo ...

Famagusta district self-government organisation (EOA) is awaiting answers from the government over the construction of two major water-related projects its president Yiannis Karousos told the Cyprus News Agency. The projects ...

Rescue workers combed rubble on Thursday at a campsite in New Zealand as they searched for the missing, children among them, following a landslide triggered by heavy rains that snapped ...

The Paphos district government organisation (EOA) is on alert, with four crews on standby as extreme weather is expected to strike the region, EOA president Charalambos Pittokopitis said on Thursday. “...

A woman was killed on Wednesday night after being struck by a car swept along by floodwaters in southern Athens, as intense rainfall triggered widespread flooding across the capital. Greek ...

Larnaca’s Kamares flood control project, due for completion in 2027, will largely resolve the area’s long-standing flooding problems, Larnaca district government chief Angelos Hadjicharalambous said on Saturday. He said ...

At least 37 people were killed in flash floods triggered by torrential rains on Sunday in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal province of Safi, 330 kilometres (205 miles) south of the capital Rabat, Morocco’...

The level of floodwater in the north began to recede in the north during the early hours of Wednesday morning, with Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci saying that water ...

Opposition members of the north’s ‘parliament’ expressed their confusion on Tuesday after the Turkish Cypriot legislature convened despite residential neighbourhoods within a 15-minute walk of the ‘parliament’ in the ...

One man has died after severe floods hit swathes of northern Cyprus on Monday night and Tuesday. The man, named as 57-year-old Ercin Fevzi, had been missing since Monday night, ...

Polis Chrysochous is “on alert” after bearing the brunt of Storm Byron and facing extensive flooding over the weekend, the town’s mayor Yiotis Papachristofi said on Monday. He told ...

The road linking Polis Chrysochous and Latchi was closed on Sunday as heavy rainfall brought about by Storm Byron caused floods in the town and the region. With heavy rainfall ...

More than 60 calls were made to the fire brigade on Wednesday as severe weather caused widespread flooding and disruption across the Nicosia district. Among the incidents reported was a group ...

Agriculture ministry representative Nikoleta Iona on Thursday said the first phase of flood control works being carried out in light of the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and ...

At least nine people died in a flash flood in northern China, state media reported on Sunday, with three others still missing, as the East Asian monsoon continues to unleash ...

The fire department hauled a car out of a flooded road on Wednesday night, after heavy rainfall in the district.In a separate incident in Larnaca, firefighters pumped water out ...

The Paphos general hospital, which flooded during heavy rain on Saturday night, was “built with a lot of shoddy work”, the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos said on Sunday. “No ...

South Korea is ready to provide North Korea with relief supplies for damage caused by recent heavy rainfall, South Korea’s Red Cross said on Thursday, marking a rare outreach ...

Thousands of people are stranded on the streets of the eastern Sudanese city of Kassala as a deluge of rain compounds the suffering of more than a million Sudanese who ...

Waterborne diseases are now a risk in Brazil’s southernmost state, authorities say, as residents begin to return to flooded homes and clean up after catastrophic floods that killed at ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Jonathan Shkurko A report on a pharmaceuticals warehouse that flooded a few weeks ago has been turned over for review to the audit office, it emerged ...