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United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen. In April 2024, heavy rain severely impacted states in the Persian Gulf, causing flash flooding across the region. Several states recorded nearly a year's worth of rain in a single day. The floods had a significant impact across the region, with Oman and the United Arab ...
Cause. Heavy rainfall, flash floods. Deaths. 439+ [a] Non-fatal injuries. 1,748+. Since 6 March 2024, unseasonably heavy rains and resultant flash flooding in Afghanistan and Pakistan killed nearly 450 people, and injured many more. [5] [6] [failed verification] This extensively damaged infrastructure and agriculture. [6] [7] [8]
2024 Central Asian floods. In April 2024, extensive flooding impacted several regions of Kazakhstan and Russia, specifically in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. [2] Snow melt caused freshets [1] resulting in the Orsk Dam collapsing. [3] In Russia, a federal emergency was declared. [4] Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated [5] [6 ...
Israel shut down Al Jazeera ’s operations in the country and seized some of its communication equipment Sunday, prompting condemnation from the United Nations and rights groups over Israeli ...
JERUSALEM/DOHA (Reuters) -Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office on Sunday following a government decision to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station ...
Porto Alegre–Salgado Filho International Airport covered by the flooding. Over 500,000 people were left without power and clean water across Rio Grande do Sul, and flood damage occurred in 431 of the state's 497 municipalities, while many roads and bridges were destroyed and landslides occurred.
April 1, 2024 at 1:23 PM. Israel’s legislature passed a law Monday paving the way to shut down the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network, under legislation allowing for the temporary ban of ...
5. On 16 April 2024, heavy rains caused floods in the United Arab Emirates, affected cities of mainly Dubai and Sharjah, the northern Emirates, and different areas of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. [1] According to the National Center for Meteorology (United Arab Emirates) , this was the country's heaviest rainfall recorded in 75 years.