08/04/2013 | Argentina

Government reveals details of relief measures for flood victims

Diego Bossio, the head of Anses, today revealed the details of a series of relief measures announced by president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for those affected by the tragic storm and floods which devastated the city of La Plata.

08/04/2013 | Argentina

Floods: Scioli confirms death toll remains at 51

Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli came on stage today to confirm that the death toll of the floods that affected the city of La Plata last week remained at 51.

11/04/2013 | Argentina

Heavy downpours flood Santa Fe's capital

Heavy downpours hit Santa Fe city last night leaving numerous neighborhoods flooded and with no electricity. Likewise, all public transportations services, and classes were suspended.

05/04/2013 | Argentina

Scioli: ‘400 people remain evacuated in La Plata, 900 in La Matanza’

The Governor of the Buenos Aires province Daniel Scioli told reporters today that although no fatal victims were reported in La Matanza district, 900 people remained evacuated, while in flood-battered La Plata, 400 remained in 19 evacuation centres prepared to shelter the victims.

05/04/2013 | Argentina

Edenor, Edesur blast Macri, floods result of BA City's lack of 'infraestructure'

Edenor and Edesur have responded to Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri who had targeted the companies’ “lack of investment” facing power outages after this week’s heavy storms.

08/04/2013 | Argentina

Floods: Scioli to speak to reporters

According to Buenos Aires province Communications Secretary Juan Courel, Governor Daniel Scioli will speak to reporters today on the current situation after the rains and floods which last week devastated the city of La Plata.

05/04/2013 | Argentina

Berni: 'We are doing what's humanly possible'

Security Secretary Sergio Berni came on stage today to stress that the government is doing what's "humanly possible" amid the devastation left by the torrential rains and floods in Buenos Aires province and La Plata capital district.

05/04/2013 | Argentina

Tragic floods: relief work for victims continues

After the tragic storm and floods that devastated some areas of Buenos Aires and La Plata capital district and killed 51 neighbours, the number of people who remained evacuated today was decreasing while relief works continued.

05/04/2013 | Argentina

Government reports looting attempt against donation trucks

03/04/2013 | Argentina

Macri urges national, BA province gov'ts to get hands on hydraulic works

BA City Mayor Mauricio Macri gave a second press conference within the past 24 hours following the freak rainstorm that swept dozens of neighborhoods, and urged both national and BA provincial administrations to support the hydraulic public works on the Medrano underground river.

04/04/2013 | Argentina

Floods: Death toll in La Plata remains at 51 as amount of people evacuated decreases

Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli has confirmed that 51 people were killed by the torrential rains registered in La Plata and that 1,000 residents remained evacuated. BA province Justice and Security minister Ricardo Casal later confirmed that the death toll remained at 51 and said that “officials had extensively canvassed the area, with 5,940 homes searched without any new fatal victims found."

04/04/2013 | Argentina

'Still 130,000 BA City residents without electricity,' De Vido

Planning Minister Julio de Vido told reporters this morning that at least 130,000 Buenos Aires City residents remained with no electricity as result of the torrential rains that flooded numerous metropolitan northern neighborhoods and killed six people.

03/11/2012 | Argentina

Record grain harvest jeopardized by floods, farmers warn

Fourteen million hectares are affected by floods in Buenos Aires and Santa Cruz province and the presence of water jeopardizes the harvest of grains, according to farming sector leaders.

09/11/2012 | Argentina

Flash floods grapple the city

10/11/2012 | Argentina

City urges Gov't to approve loan to avoid Belgrano floods

City Cabinet Chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta urged the Government to give the necessary avail so the City can get international loans which would allow to carry out works to avoid flooding in the Belgrano neighbourhood, which is usually very affected by floods.

08/09/2012 | Argentina

Greater Buenos Aires still affected by floods, weather improves

Heavy rains caused floods in Buenos Aires province, affecting 3.5 million hectares. Fourteen percent of barley and wheat crops have been affected and 17 districts were declared in state of emergency.

11/09/2012 | Argentina

BA farming board meet to assess floods damage

The Buenos Aires Province Farming Board will meet today in order to assess flood damage after torrential rains flooded several Buenos Aires province rural areas.

30/10/2012 | Argentina

'Neighborhoods like Belgrano will always flood without proper works,' City Minister

Buenos Aires City Cabinet Chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, admitted today that in case of a same magnitude storm, the neighborhood of Belgrano will “flood again”, and urged the national government for help.

31/01/2012 | Argentina

Córdoba city under 'state of alert' due to thunderstorm, floods

Córdoba City Mayor Ramón Mestre declared today the “state of alert” for the next three days in the capital city of Córdoba due to the serious damage caused by yesterday’s thunderstorms and floods that killed two people and left several injured.

02/02/2012 | Argentina

Day after the storm: 30 traffic lights broken, power cuts affect BA city

There were thirty city traffic lights reportedly out of service while many neighbourhoods were still being affected by power cuts following the storms that affected the Capital last night. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner contacted Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri by phone, to offer any help he needed in dealing with effects of yesterday’s floods.

25/08/2012 | Argentina

BA province to aid flooded districts with $400,000

The Buenos Aires province Government carries out an emergency programme to assist the districts affected by the intense rains that hit the area in the last few days. As evacuees were returning home, Vice-Governor Gabriel Mariotto visited the areas and announced that the provincial Senate will send 400,000 pesos in aid.

13/11/2012 | World

Three die in Italy floods as heavy rain continues

02/11/2012 | World

Anger grows over fuel shortage in storm-hit Northeast

A third day of gasoline "panic buying" among storm-stricken motorists in the New York area and New Jersey prompted authorities to tap emergency oil reserves and ordered the military to dispatch fuel, while limited deliveries from pipelines and oil barges offered a glimmer of relief.

02/11/2012 | World

New York after Sandy: a tale of two cities

By Adrian Bono, Special Correspondent in NY.

05/11/2012 | World

New York region struggles to move on a week after Sandy

Commuters battled unruly crowds and snarled traffic to return to work Monday, a week after superstorm Sandy devastated the US Northeast, as authorities scrambled to clear debris ahead of more bad weather and put special measures in place to ensure residents could vote in tomorrow's presidential election.

09/07/2012 | World

Russia mourns flood victims, local officials blamed

Russia's emergencies minister accused local officials today of not doing enough to prevent 171 deaths in weekend floods that raised new doubts about the country's readiness for natural disasters under President Vladimir Putin.

28/07/2012 | World

Severe flooding hits North Korea, kills 88

Severe flooding across North Korea has killed 88 people and left tens of thousands homeless, state media reported late, threatening to make the poverty-stricken country's already chronic food shortage still worse.

30/10/2012 | World

US East Coast reels from massive, deadly storm

26/09/2011 | World

Philippines evacuates 100,000 as typhoon nears

The Philippines ordered the evacuation of more than 100,000 people in flood and landslide-prone parts of the main island of Luzon as Typhoon Nesat gathered speed and strength ahead of its expected landfall tomorrow.

22/10/2011 | World

Thailand battles to defend capital from floods

Thailand's government scrambled to protect the capital and defend two industrial zones from flooding as water levels crept higher and hundreds of riverside residents prepared to leave their homes.

07/07/2012 | World

Over 100 killed in floods, landslides in Russia

Floods and landslides killed at least 103 people in southern Russia after two months' average rainfall fell in a few hours, forcing some to climb on to roofs and into trees to save themselves, police said on Saturday.

14/05/2011 | World

Louisiana braces itself for Mississippi floods

The US Army Corps of Engineers were to open the Morganza Spillway at 3PM CDT to ease pressure on the swollen Mississippi River, a spokesman said.

17/06/2011 | World

China raises flood alert to top level, over half million evacuated

China has mobilized troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest level after days of downpours forced the evacuation of more than half a million people in central and southern provinces.

16/09/2011 | World

Pakistan PM cancels US visit due to floods

Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has cancelled a visit to the US to attend the UN General Assembly session to direct relief efforts as floods devastate southern Pakistan, his office said.

08/01/2011 | World

Australia PM pledges financial help for flood-hit Queensland

Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged financial support for Australia's flood-hit northeast on Saturday during a tour of the most heavily inundated parts of Queensland state, but warned the recovery would be slow.

11/01/2011 | World

Australia floods inundate Brisbane, over 90 missing

Thousands of residents of Australia's third-largest city evacuated homes as massive floods threatened to inundate the financial district, sparked panic buying of food and left authorities despairing for more than 90 people missing.

13/01/2011 | World

Flooded Brisbane in shock, fresh rains feared

Flood water in Australia's third-biggest city peaked below feared catastrophic levels on but Brisbane and other devastated regions faced years of rebuilding, while fresh flood threats loom with a cyclone forecast off the coast.

02/01/2011 | World

Record floods swamp Australia's northeast

Large parts of Australia's coastal northeast disappeared under floodwaters in a spreading disaster that has brought some of the highest floods on record and forced thousands from their homes.

04/01/2011 | World

Australia floods force evacuations, recede in mine area

Floodwaters eased in Australia's major coal mining region on Tuesday to allow some mines to slowly resume production, although most remain idle as devastating floods affect some 200,000 people and force towns to be evacuated.

05/01/2011 | World

Australia floods cause 'catastrophic' damage

Australia's record floods are causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure in the state of Queensland and have forced 75 percent of its coal mines, which fuel Asia's steel mills, to grind to a halt, Queensland's premier said.

08/06/2011 | Latin America

Death toll in Haiti's floods, mudslides rises to 23

The death toll from days of heavy rains that triggered flooding and mudslides in earthquake-ravaged Haiti has climbed to 23, an official said on Wednesday.

05/01/2012 | Latin America

Rio de Janeiro on maximum alert as towns flood

Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state placed emergency teams on maximum alert as heavy rains that have displaced 35,000 residents were forecast to continue, reviving fears of mudslides and flooding that killed about 900 people last year.

06/01/2011 | Latin America

Colombia extends state of emergency due to rains

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that the government had extended a temporary state of emergency for an additional 20 days due to heavy rains that have battered the Andean nation.

14/01/2011 | Latin America

Brazil death toll rises as rescuers battle floods

Rescue workers in Brazil braced for more rain as they struggled to reach areas cut off by massive floods and landslides that look certain to have killed more than 500 people.

15/01/2011 | Latin America

Brazil rains death toll rises, 611

Rains that devastated a mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro have killed at least 611 people, Brazil's Civil Defense agency said, as forecasts of more storms and fears of disease outbreaks overshadowed rescue operations.