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South Asia heat emergency extends as water rationing spreads across Pakistan and northern India

Provincial governments across the Indo-Gangetic plain extended emergency heat declarations into a second week as municipal water boards imposed rationing on more than 180 million residents and grid operators warned of rolling blackouts through the weekend.

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Pre-monsoon heat dome pushes South Asia and Gulf into emergency as wet-bulb readings near survivability limits

A stalled upper-level ridge has driven temperatures past 49 C across Pakistan, northwest India and the lower Gulf, with hospitals in three countries reporting more than 1,900 heat-related admissions in 72 hours and Iraqi returnee districts ordering daytime work bans.

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Cyclone Amphan III slams Bangladesh coast as evacuations clear two million from southern deltas

A powerful pre-monsoon cyclone roared ashore in southern Bangladesh on Sunday with sustained winds above 195 kilometers per hour, after an unprecedented evacuation of more than two million people from the Khulna and Barisal coastal belts shielded the country from what forecasters had warned could be the deadliest storm of the decade.

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Southern Brazil floods swallow Rio Grande do Sul towns as record autumn rains overwhelm a still-recovering region

A week of relentless rain across southern Brazil has killed at least 31 people, forced more than 84,000 from their homes and submerged farmland and small towns across the Rio Grande do Sul interior, with the Guaiba River once again rising past historic crest levels in Porto Alegre.

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South Asia heat dome pushes India and Pakistan into emergency mode as temperatures cross 47C

A heat dome covering large stretches of northern India and central Pakistan pushed daytime temperatures above 47 degrees Celsius on Friday, with health officials in both countries reporting at least 84 confirmed heat-related deaths since the start of the week and hospitals in Lahore and Lucknow extending emergency triage protocols.

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Spring shamal buries Iran-Iraq return corridor in dust, pushing respiratory cases to record highs

A 36-hour shamal that swept the Iran-Iraq frontier this week reduced visibility to below 200 meters across returnee transit camps and drove respiratory admissions to the highest levels recorded since the April 15 ceasefire, aid agencies said Thursday.

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Early-season wildfires erupt across Southwest as drought and wind event strain firefighting resources

A cluster of fast-moving wildfires fueled by a record-dry winter and a multi-day downslope wind event has burned more than 180,000 acres across Arizona, New Mexico and southern Colorado, forcing evacuations in 14 communities and stretching federal firefighting crews barely a month into the western fire calendar.

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Failed long rains deepen Horn of Africa drought as aid agencies warn of fourth failed season

An unusually dry March-May rainy season across Somalia, eastern Ethiopia and northern Kenya has pushed more than 11 million people into acute food insecurity, U.N. agencies said Sunday, warning that the region is on the brink of a fourth consecutive failed rainfall cycle.

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Early-season wildfires erupt across British Columbia and Alberta as record-dry spring pushes fire crews into May

More than 110 active wildfires were burning across British Columbia and Alberta on Saturday, with smoke plumes drifting south into Washington, Idaho and Montana, after the driest April on record in the Canadian Prairies set the stage for what officials are calling the earliest serious fire start in a generation.

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Late-Spring Tornado Outbreak Tears Through Mississippi Valley, Displacing Thousands

A multi-day severe weather outbreak across the lower Mississippi Valley killed at least 14 people, leveled neighborhoods in three states and forced more than 4,200 residents into emergency shelters, officials said Friday.

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Record rains push Mississippi and Ohio rivers into major flood stage as spring storms stall over Midwest

A near-stationary front dumped more than a foot of rain across parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky over four days, sending the Mississippi and Ohio rivers into major flood stage and prompting mandatory evacuations in nine counties.

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Pre-monsoon heatwave grips South Asia as Delhi tops 46C and power grids strain

A brutal pre-monsoon heatwave pushed temperatures above 46 degrees Celsius across northern India and eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 73 people in three days, forcing rolling blackouts in four Indian states and shutting schools from Karachi to Patna.

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South Asia heatwave shatters April records as grid and water systems strain from Karachi to Kolkata

A punishing pre-monsoon heatwave pushed temperatures past 47 degrees Celsius across a 2,000-kilometer arc of South Asia on Tuesday, shattering April records in more than two dozen cities and overwhelming hospitals, power grids and municipal water systems from Sindh through the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Danube floods force mass evacuations across Central Europe as spring snowmelt meets record rainfall

Surging Danube and Tisza floodwaters drove more than 38,000 people from their homes across Hungary, Slovakia and northern Serbia on Saturday as a week of Alpine snowmelt combined with the heaviest late-April rains in decades to push river gauges to near-record highs.

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Tornado outbreak across Mississippi Valley leaves at least 14 dead, flattens Arkansas towns

A sprawling line of supercells tore through eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee overnight, killing at least 14 people and reducing parts of two small towns to debris fields, emergency officials said Thursday.

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Tornado Outbreak Sweeps Mississippi Delta as Rescue Crews Search Flattened Towns From Greenwood to Tuscaloosa

At least 31 people were killed and more than 200 injured after a violent tornado outbreak tore through the lower Mississippi Valley overnight Saturday into Sunday, leveling neighborhoods in Greenwood, Indianola and the western suburbs of Tuscaloosa and stretching emergency-response systems already drawn down by months of war-related federal redeployments.

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Pre-Monsoon Heatwave Grips South Asia as April Temperatures Shatter Records From Karachi to Kolkata

An early-season heatwave pushed daytime temperatures above 46 degrees Celsius across a 1,400-mile band of South Asia on Thursday, killing at least 71 people across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and prompting school closures from Sindh to West Bengal.

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Massive Storm System Sweeps Across Large Portions of the United States

A powerful storm system is bringing a mix of snow, strong winds, and severe weather to large areas of the United States.

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