ATHENS, Greece: The state Athens News Agency says an 18-year-old Romanian woman died when a wall of the compound where she was housed collapsed during a mild earthquake. The 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck at 7:10 a.m. (0510 GMT) Sunday at sea …
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Sri Lanka: 7 killed, 98,000 displaced by floods
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday. Keerthi Ekanayake of the Disaster Management …
Flooding in Honduras Forces Mass Evacuation
Heavy rains and flooding in Honduras have affected more than 200,000 people and claimed 22 lives. The continuous rains, which fell earlier in the week, left many homes in the communities near San Pedro Sula under water triggering mudslides in …