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Pakistan flood victims struggle to access emergency relief

While international aid has begun arriving in flood-devastated Pakistan, residents of the badly affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the north are struggling to access the aid. A FRANCE 24 team reporting from the Hassanabad district found women and children unable to elbow out the young and strong desperate to reach…

France 24

Waterborne diseases spread among flood victims in Pakistan

Pakistani health officials are reporting an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the flood-affected areas

The Independent UK

Brisbane City Council moves on flood review recommendations

Brisbane City Council says it has completed 12 recommendations from this year's flood review as the opposition ramps up calls for more sandbagging facilities and details on new evacuation centres.

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Deadly floods are wreaking global havoc

Torrential downpours claimed the lives of more than 1,000 in Pakistan, where almost half a million people are in relief camps. A massive deluge crashed across Mississippi in the past week, leaving the roughly 150,000 residents of capital city Jackson without reliable access to clean drinking water. Cascades of rain…

The Times of India

Libs take aim at government flood response

The federal opposition has criticised Anthony Albanese for failing to visit flood-affected areas of NSW since becoming prime minister.

AAP

AP PHOTOS: Living amid flood in Indonesia, unable to leave

The rice fields are washed away. Coconut trees and chili plants, flooded with salt water, are all dead. The farmers’ fish ponds fail, the water getting so high that the fish swim over the nets. And trash carried by the tides float in and out of homes with doors that…

The Independent UK

Disagreement over flood gauge accuracy in Wollombi Brook

Flood-affected residents have raised concerns about "inaccurate" gauges in Wollombi Brook.

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Pakistan steps up aid efforts after ravaging floods

Millions trapped by monsoon floods await help amid threats of more flooding.

Al Jazeera

Health officials warn of major outbreaks of disease after severe floods in Pakistan

Diarrhoea and malaria cases spread, with risk of dysentery and cholera, as millions of displaced people forced to drink flood water

The Guardian - UK

First came the heatwaves, then the floods: Why Pakistan is on the frontline of the climate crisis

“Literally a third of the country is under water,” Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman warned this week, after the death toll from the nation’s devastating floods topped 1,100 after record monsoon rains. The torrential downpours come after a series of heat waves, highlighting Pakistan’s vulnerability to climate change.

France 24

From furnace to flood: world's hottest city in Pakistan now under water

Not long ago, Sara Khan, principal at a school for disadvantaged girls in Jacobabad in southern Pakistan, looked on in alarm as some students passed out from the heat - the city was the world's hottest at one point in May.

Reuters

Two killed, five children feared drowned as boat engaged in flood relief operation capsizes in UP's Ghazipur

VARANASI: Two persons died while five children were missing after a boat engaged in Ganga flood relief operations capsized due to alleged overloading near Athahatha village under the limits of Revatipur police station in Ghazipur district late Wednesday afternoon.

The Times of India

Yogi Adityanath conducts aerial survey in eastern U.P., meets flood victims

The Chief Minister said that due to heavy rains in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, water levels in the rivers have increased leading to floods in few districts.

The Hindu

Nicola Sturgeon urged to send more aid to flood-hit Pakistan

NICOLA Sturgeon's government faces calls to send further aid to the victims of Pakistan's floods as one third of the country is under water.

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Flooding has devastated Pakistan – and Britain’s imperial legacy has made it worse

Colonialism and its aftereffects have left regions such as south Punjab resource-starved, poverty-stricken and deeply vulnerable to floodwaters, says Yale University’s Shozab Raza

The Independent UK

In Pakistan, fears of waterborne diseases as floods recede

Officials in Pakistan are raising concerns about the spread of waterborne diseases among thousands of flood victims as waters from powerful monsoon rains began to recede in many parts of the country

Reuters

Pakistanis protect homes against devastating floods; aid arrives

Residents in southern Pakistan used sandbags to shield their homes from surging floodwaters that inundated a major highway on Wednesday, as global aid began arriving with food, medicine and tents to help alleviate a major national disaster.

The Independent UK

For Pakistan flood victims, waters hit swiftly and brutally

Pakistani flood survivors recount how the surging waters were like nothing they had ever seen before, striking their homes swiftly and brutally

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The Guardian - AU

Pakistan floods: before-and-after images show extent of devastation

More than 1,100 people have been killed in flooding described by Pakistan PM Shebaz Sharif as worst in country’s history

ABC News

Brisbane City Council begins flooded home buyback with first $50 million round of funding

Brisbane City Council will begin talks to buy back the homes of 16 residents impacted by February's floods after frustrations over delays in providing funds for rebuilding.

Daily Mirror

Warning Pakistan facing 'monsoon on steroids' as floods submerge a third of the country

The United Nation's Antonio Guterres has warned that Pakistan is facing a 'monsoon on steroids' after over 1,000 people have been killed in the flooding since June

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh: Krishna continues to receive heavy inflows

The flood level will continue to rise till Sept. 4, as per CWC

WEKU

PHOTOS: A third of Pakistan is underwater in catastrophic floods

One-third of the country is under water, the result of what U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called a "monsoon on steroids." He referred to the flooding as a "climate catastrophe."

WEKU

PHOTOS: A third of Pakistan is under water in catastrophic floods

Some 33 million people are affected by this summer's floods — the result of what U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres calls a "monsoon on steroids." He calls the flooding a "climate catastrophe."

Reuters

U.N. chief to travel to Pakistan to see 'climate catastrophe'

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Pakistan next week following historic deadly flooding to see "the areas most impacted by this unprecedented climate catastrophe," a U.N. spokesperson said on Tuesday.

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