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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.

Indonesia

Time-lapse video shows volcano erupting in Indonesia

Mount Sinabung has been active since 2013

PuertoRico

Scale of rebuilding Puerto Rico grows as teams discover extent of damage

With rescue teams only just reaching many interior parts of Puerto Rico the island faces years of work to repair the damage done by Hurricane Maria.

Mexico

Aftershocks and fading hopes in quake-hit Mexico

Tuesday's 7.1-magnitude quake has killed at least 318 people, and experts warn more tremors are likely.

PuertoRico

Dazed Caribbean communities wonder how life can resume after Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico & the Dominican Republic, among the worst-hit by Hurricane Maria, faced with daunting rexconstruction task.

Mexico

Mexico earthquake: Rescue efforts continue as death toll rises

At least 273 people are now known to have been killed by Tuesday's 7.1 magnitude quake