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Greece

Greek PM promises full inquiry into deadly floods

At least 15 people were killed and more than a dozen injured on the outskirts of Athens after heavy rain caused flash floods

Greece

At least 15 dead in Greek flash floods

The death toll in flash floods in Greece has risen to at least 15 with scores more people homeless after a night of heavy rains.

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At least 15 dead in flash floods in Greece

Flash floods have killed at least 15 near Athens in Geece.

Greece

Flash floods in Greece kill at least 15

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Iran

Iran: from rescue to recovery

Tehran says rescue operations have been ended in areas hit by a powerful earthquake at the weekend that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands.

Iran

Iran-Iraq earthquake: Social media images show tragic aftermath

Most of the victims were in Kermanshah province, on Iran's border with Iraq.

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Cracks in the road and gutted houses in quake-hit eastern Iraq

The quake was felt as far south as Baghdad, some 300 km away.

Iran

Deadly quake rocks Iran-Iraq border

The death toll rises following powerful earthquake in Iran-Iraq border region.

Vietnam

Death toll rises as Typhoon Damrey lashes Vietnam

Dozens have been killed and thousands of homes have been flattened as the storm rages in the country's central and southern regions.

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Italy: tackling forest fires

Fire brigades work though the night to battle forest fires.

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Schools shutdown continues as Ophelia hits Northern Ireland

Schools across Northern Ireland are to remain closed on Tuesday in the wake of Storm Ophelia

Portugal

Portugal PM vows to implement fire prevention reforms

After its worst weekend this year for wildfires, Portugal's PM defends his government's attempts to reform fire prevention

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Deadly Spanish fires in part started deliberately says Galica's President

Galicia's President says some of the fires threatening Vigo are criminal in nature.

World News

Mass starvation decimates Penguin colony's chicks

Only two chicks have survived out of 18,000 breeding pairs of Penguins in the eastern Antarctic

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Volcano erupts in southwestern Japan

Vietnam

Thousands evacuated as floods and landslides sow death in Vietnam

The bad weather caused by a tropical depression is wreaking havoc mostly in the north and centre of the country.

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Hurriance Nate kills nine people in Nicaragua

Hurricane Nate doused Central America with heavy rains on Thursday, killing at least 12 people in Nicaragua, nine in Costa Rica, two in Honduras and two in El Salvador.

USA

Hurricane Nate claims lives in Central America, heads for New Orleans

Now a Category 1 Hurricane, Nate has ripped a deadly path through Central America, and is now bearing down on New Orleans.

Switzerland

Global warming 'threatens Swiss Alps'

Swiss Alps under pressure as scientists stress negative effects of global warming.

Mexico

Search for final missing person abandoned in Mexico City quake clearup

The body of the final missing person in Mexico City's earthquake has been found, and the search abandoned for any more victims with the final death toll at 369.