Helene, now a major hurricane, menaces Florida with “unsurvivable” storm surge
Reuters Driving rain flooded roadways and closed down airports in Florida as an intensifying Hurricane Helene marched toward the state’s panhandle region, bringing the threat of a potentially deadly storm surge to much of the coastline. The storm became a major Category 3 hurricane on Thursday afternoon with sustained winds near 193 kph, the National […]
Hundreds of thousands evacuated as Bangladesh braces for cyclone
Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters Authorities in Bangladesh were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people on Monday before Cyclone Sitrang made landfall amid fears of heavy damage to houses and crops and disruption to road and power links. Approaching from the Bay of Bengal, Sitrang was expected to hit the southern coast near the Khepupara area of […]