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According to local media, residents of the affected area expect even more casualties than expected so far. There are so many missing. But reports on social media that there are more than 250 victims have been called nonsense by authorities in Kastamonu. More rain was initially expected this weekend, but now it looks like precipitation will decrease. Evacuations At least …

Initially, onlookers thought it was an emergency, as the red Robinson R44 looks like a trauma helicopter. But when a woman got out of the helicopter and returned moments later with the frozen treat, it became clear what was really going on. The Canadian authorities are not happy about it. Although the pilot had the correct papers to fly the …

After the extremely high temperatures of recent times in Turkey, Greece and Italy, Spain is now also suffering from the heat. In the southwest it was well above 40 degrees today; in Cordoba, the mercury even rose to 46 degrees. Heat records are also broken in the southern Mediterranean countries. This extreme heat is likely to become more common in …

At least 900 people were rescued in the mountainous Black Sea area north of the capital Ankara. Thousands of residents are temporarily accommodated in student rooms because their homes have been destroyed. Authorities have spoken of a disaster like none in fifty years or even a century. According to Turkish President Erdogan, who visited the region on Friday, “intensive” cooperation …

Meteorologists from the Met Office, the UK’s KNMI, warn that in the future Europe will face heat waves in which the temperature rises to 50 degrees or even more. They answer that the message that a new European heat record would have been broken in Sicily on Wednesday. A temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius was measured in the port city. …

Security is enhanced. At the same time, France once again urges its Afghan citizens to leave the country as soon as possible. The United States has already announced that it will evacuate a significant number of employees from its embassy in Kabul. The British have announced similar measures. The London government will hold emergency talks on Friday. NATO ambassadors are …

Video27 people were killed in the “worst flood disaster” in northern Turkey. Last night, the emergency services recovered ten bodies. More than 1,700 people were evacuated, hundreds had to be rescued by helicopter. As areas bordering the Black Sea are ravaged by flooding, firefighters are still fighting forest fires in the south. Marlies van leeuwen August 13. 2021 Last update: …

One of Russia’s richest officials is accused by authorities of shooting an innocent man earlier this month. This is Igor Redkin, 55, a member of United Russia, the country’s largest party. Redkin confessed to the shooting, but says he mistook the victim for a brown bear. The shooting took place Monday, August 2, near a dump in Ozernovsky, a village …

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, is believed to have committed the murders in Mexico, where he took his children without telling his wife. On Monday, he allegedly shot them a harpoon in the chest, an FBI agent wrote in his statement. The reason for these gruesome murders is also strange: Coleman believed his children would turn into lizard monsters and therefore …

At the moment, at high temperature, the wind is still quite strong. This can cause new fires. Fires also continue to rage, for example in bushes and mosses. Although firefighters say the danger is not yet over, mayors of the Peloponnese Peninsula say the situation has improved. Weather conditions have not improved everywhere. Lightning caused fires in some places, notably …