Turkey has been battling wildfires that erupted in the southern and southwestern coastal resort towns and have lasted seven days, officials announced Monday. Eight neighborhoods were completely deserted while five others partially evacuated as blazes hit the residential areas. The European Union announced that the bloc would send three firefighting planes from Croatia and Spain […]
A corona virus vaccine center and a sanitary and epidemiological station in Zamosc, Poland, was set on fire by an unidentified person last night. No one was injured or killed in the attack, but some of the equipment and the Covid-19 vaccines in the refrigerators were damaged due to the fires.
Floods caused by heavy rains that have been effective for about 2 weeks in Henan province of China, 302 people were killed and 50 people have gone missing. The material damage caused by the flood in Henan reached $18 billion, and 580,000 hectares of agricultural land were damaged. The State Council of the People’s Republic […]
In Thailand, people called on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to resign due to inadequate government policies to contain Covid-19 pandemic. Convoys of hundreds of cars and motorcycles took to the 20-kilometer road stretching from the Democracy Monument in the center of the capital Bangkok to Don Mueang Airport. Similar protests were also held in other […]
Sindh province of Pakistan announced that the SIM cards of mobile phone owners who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 will be blocked, and that employees will not be able to receive their salary for August. After the announcement, hundreds of people in the city of Karachi, Sindh, flooded the vaccination centers in Karachi Expo Center […]
The multi-purpose laboratory module Nauka launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan had been successfully docked to the ISS on July 29 by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov shared new images from inside the module while they were conducting their first inspection.
In Greece, the fight against forest fires continues in different regions. Five villages were evacuated yesterday due to the fire that broke out in the forest area in the Achaea region, located in the west of the capital Athens. Helicopters and firefighting aircrafts were also participated in extinguishing efforts. Around 110 children affected by the […]
In Bangladesh, the monsoon rains started earlier this week caused floods and landslides in Cox Bazar, and 20 were killed. In the region, 306.000 people were stranded where the refugee camp for Rohingya people is also located. At least 70 villages were flooded, and 36.000 people were evacuated and taken to the schools and shelters […]
In the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, 100 meters of National Highway 707 in Sirmaur district collapsed due to landslides in the area. At least 204 people, including tourists, were stranded in different locations in the Lahaul-Spiti area. The state government has been asked to send helicopters to evacuate the stranded tourists.
In the city of Peshawar in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the unidentified attackers killed a policeman with a grenade, and injured the other two. The policemen were taken to the hospital, and the attackers fled. A large-scale investigation was launched into the incident.