Heavy rains caused flooding in the Indian states of West Bengal and Madyha Pradesh. In West Bengal, 15 people were killed and many disappeared. In Madyha Pradesh, 200 villages were flooded and 600 people were evacuated. A bridge collapsed as a result of the opening of the Medikheda Dam gates, which was overfilled due to […]
In the Changning district of Shanghai, China, an artificial intelligence-operated canteen has been opened, where food is prepared and served by robotic arms. Covering an area of 130 square meters, the canteen has over 20 seats. Payments can be made with various options such as bank cards, QR codes and digital RMB. Meat dishes cost […]
Fires in forest areas in Yakutia, located in the Siberia region of Russia, have been going on for about 3 weeks. People have started to be evacuated in rural settlements of Kazachinsko-Lensky, Kirensky, Ust-Kutsky, Bodaibinsky and Katangsky due to the spread of fire in residential areas. In addition to 2,250 personnel, 284 air and land […]
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 […]