TEHRAN, October 08 - Torrential rain in Central America that caused floods and landslides have killed 12 people in just a few days, rescue and emergency authorities across the region said on Sunday.
TEHRAN, October 07 - When up to six-meter (20-foot) tsunami waves crashed into the Indonesian city of Palu last month, Didiek Wahyudi Kurniawan's house near the beach was quickly engulfed with water, leaving his wife and two daughters barely any time to escape.
TEHRAN, September 25 - At least seven people, including two children, are dead and searches continue for five others after a five-foot (1.5 meter) wall of floodwater crashed through the streets of a town in western Mexico, state officials said Monday night.
TEHRAN, September 23 - Torrential rains and flooding in northeastern Tunisia have left at least four dead, including two sisters, the interior ministry said Sunday.
TEHRAN, September 21 - Dozens more bodies were recovered on Friday, the morning after a Tanzanian ferry disaster, nearly doubling the death toll to 86, with hundreds more feared missing as rescuers resumed searching for survivors at first light.
TEHRAN, September 20 - A landslide triggered by heavy rains on Thursday killed at least four people in the central Philippines, with dozens feared trapped in the latest of a string of deadly incidents over six days.
TEHRAN, September 16 - A Pakistani government official says the roof of a mud and brick house collapsed amid heavy rain in northwestern Pakistan killing four members of a family and injuring another.
TEHRAN, September 16 - At least 25 people have been killed in the Philippines in a trail of devastation left by Typhoon Mangkhut, mostly in landslides in mountainous areas, a presidential adviser said on Sunday.
TEHRAN, September 14 - Political divisions at government level within the European Union will lead to more refugee deaths in the Mediterranean, experts at a conference in Brussels warn. Rights groups accuse the EU of failing in its legal and moral responsibilities by creating a fortress Europe to keep refugees out.
TEHRAN, September 13 - An unidentified gunman shot and killed five people in a series of shootings on Wednesday in Southern California before taking his own life, police said.
TEHRAN, September 12 - The death toll in a suicide bombing among a group of people protesting a local police commander in eastern Afghanistan has risen to 68, up from 32, provincial officials Wednesday.
TEHRAN, September 08 - At least six people died in South Sudan on Sunday when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed, an eye witness said.
TEHRAN, September 06 - Cholera has killed 14 people with almost 400 hospitalised in the past week in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, the Borno state health commissioner said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, September 05 - A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a flooded airport, the government said on Wednesday, as more than a million homes were without power.
TEHRAN, September 02 - A bus crash in Ecuador's Andes mountains left 11 people dead, authorities said Saturday, bringing the country's death toll from such accidents to 46 in the past three weeks.
TEHRAN, August 24 - At least four people were killed and 17 others injured in Finland on Friday when a bus collided with passenger cars and plunged off a bridge onto railway tracks, local rescue service said.
TEHRAN, August 19 - housands of stranded people were waiting to be rescued Saturday and officials pleaded for more help as relentless monsoon floods battered the southern Indian state of Kerala, where more than 190 have died in a little over a week and much of the state is partially submerged.
TEHRAN, July 24 - An "unprecedented" heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials said Tuesday, with the weather agency now classifying the record-breaking weather as a "natural disaster."