Tag Archives: disaster
Fire devours Greek island’s forests; residents urged to flee
PEFKI, Greece (AP) — Pillars of billowing smoke and ash turned the sky orange and blocked out the sun above Greece's second-largest island Sunday as a days-old wildfire devoured pristine forests and encroached on villages, triggering more evacuation al...
Serbian capital is engulfed in smoke from landfill fire
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A fire has erupted in a large garbage landfill close to Belgrade, prompting city authorities to warn residents of the Serbian capital to stay indoors Sunday.
More Cubans try dangerous trip to US across Florida Straits
ORLANDO NODARSE, Cuba (AP) — Zuleydis Elledias has gotten up each morning for the past two months hoping for a phone call, a message — any news on the fate of her husband and nephew, who disappeared at sea after
Devastated by wildfires, Turkey’s beekeepers see grim future
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s wildfires have left little behind, turning green forests into ashen, barren hills. The destruction is being intensely felt by Turkey’s beekeepers, who have lost thousands of hives as well as the pine trees and the insects
Russia evacuates 2 villages in Siberia because of wildfires
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities started to evacuate two villages in a vast region of Siberia where 155 active forest fires burned Sunday.
Wildfires rampage in Greek forests, cut large island in half
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three large wildfires churned across Greece on Saturday, with one threatening whole towns and cutting Evia, the country's second-largest island, in half. Others engulfed forested mountainsides and skirted ancient sites, leaving be...
Wildfires endanger villages, fuel site, in Russia’s Siberia
MOSCOW (AP) — Wildfires in Russia's vast Siberia region endangered a dozen villages Saturday and prompted authorities to evacuate some residents.
UN envoy asks Council demand Taliban halt attacks on cities
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan urged the Security Council on Friday to demand that the Taliban immediately stop attacking cities in their offensive to take more territory as American and NATO troops pull out of the
Germany: Extremism probe for driver who caused 13 crashes
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police said on Friday that they are investigating whether Polish man a detained in connection with more than a dozen traffic accidents in the German capital had extremist motives in causing the crashes.
Hundreds of volunteers help crews tackling Turkey wildfires
MUGLA, Turkey (AP) — Actor Tevfik Erman Kutlu was on a break from filming in Istanbul when wildfires that devastated swaths of southern Turkey first erupted.