VAN, TURKEY (BNO NEWS) — Three teachers and a university student were rescued in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, three days after a powerful earthquake devastated the region. The death toll has since reached 481.

Turkish media reports said two teachers …

ROME (BNO NEWS) — At least nine people have been killed in severe floods after torrential rains hit Italy’s northwestern and central regions of Liguria and Tuscany, sweeping away roads and bridges, officials said on Wednesday.

Mudslides blocked stre…

ACCRA (BNO NEWS) — At least five people were killed on early Wednesday morning when heavy rainfall caused severe flooding in the Ghanaian capital of Accra and the surrounding region, local media reported.

The heavy rainfall began at around midnight l…

ANKARA (BNO NEWS) — A powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey on early Sunday afternoon, seismologists said, destroying numerous buildings and causing an unknown number of casualties.

The 7.3-magnitude earthquake at 1.41 p.m. local time (1041 GMT) …

YANGON (BNO NEWS) — At least 58 people have been killed and hundreds more are missing after flash floods hit central Burma this week, officials told a Burmese news organization in exile on Saturday.

The flooding happened on Thursday in the town of Pa…

BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) — Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday assumed powers under the natural disaster law giving her full authority to implement a nationwide disaster relief plan as more than one-third of the country is underwater, the Bang…

BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) — Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday said that it is impossible to protect all of Bangkok from the country’s worst floods in decades, describing the situation as a “national crisis”, the Bangkok Post reported.

The…

KUPANG, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Recent undersea pictures and video have shown that conditions in Indonesia’s Timor Sea have deteriorated at an alarming rate, largely caused by the 2009 Montara oil spill, the Care West Timor Foundation (YPTB) said.

Mos…

UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations (UN) on Friday announced that it has increased its humanitarian aid efforts in Pakistan, where some 2.5 million people have been affected by this year’s floods.

Pakistan has been severely affected by flo…

BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) — The devastating floods that have been hitting large parts of Thailand for the past months have dealt a heavy blow to the economy as hundreds of factories are under water, local media reported on Friday.

The monsoon-season floods…