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Heavy rains threaten to delay search for 2 people missing in Laos cave

Heavy rains are threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos after the rescue of five other people who were trapped underground for over a week

The Independent UK

This Day in History 31st May: Usain Bolt record, Watergate revelation and Concorde’s last flight

This Day in History 31st May highlights several major global events across centuries, ranging from the Johnstown flood disaster and Angola peace accords to Usain Bolt’s 100m world record and Concorde’s final flight. The date also marks the revelation of Watergate informant “Deep Throat,” showcasing key moments in politics, science,…

The Economic Times

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe

As climate change makes extreme weather events more intense and frequent, “uninsurable areas” are becoming increasingly common. They are a clear demonstration that insurance – the mechanism through which modern societies deal with all kinds of risk – is structurally underprepared for this new climate era.

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Stop Telling Your Smart Speaker This Phrase—It’s Adding You to a Marketing List

Smart speakers sit in millions of kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms, ready to play music, answer trivia, and control smart homes with a simple command. These devices feel convenient, friendly, and almost invisible in daily life. Yet one surprisingly common phrase can quietly trigger a flood of data collection that…

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Philippine court orders senator's arrest for largescale corruption; he surrenders and posts bail

A Philippine anti-graft court has ordered the arrest of Senator Jinggoy Estrada over allegations of pocketing millions in a flood-control project

The Independent UK

Tony Abbott says Liberals in ‘existential crisis’ as he is elected party president – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Backlash is often swift when authorities try to plan retreat from the coast. There’s a better way

Climate change is exacerbating rainfall, flooding and sea-level rises in coastal and low lying areas. During the past few years, disastrous floods have swept through Lismore in New South Wales, Northern Queensland, and the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Large waves have pounded beaches, causing erosion in Byron Bay and…

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5 Legal Mistakes Homeowners Make After Storm Damage

Storm season leaves plenty of wreckage behind, but the financial fallout often causes even bigger headaches than the broken shingles and flooded basements. One wrong move after a storm can delay an insurance payout, spark disputes with contractors, or even lead to denied claims that cost homeowners thousands of dollars.

Everybody Loves Your Money

Hunter hit with heavy rainfall, some localised flooding

Residents should expect flash flooding, widespread rainfall and thunderstorms.

Newcastle Herald

Five people have been found trapped in a flooded cave in Laos. How will divers get them out?

Rescuers say extraction efforts complicated by low oxygen supplies, dark and narrow spaces, plus more rain

The Guardian - AU

Wild weather unleashes thunderstorms across south-east Australia, triggering flash flooding

Wet weather batters parts of Queensland, NSW and Tasmania amid warnings of heavy falls on Friday

The Guardian - AU

Top environmental watchdog’s Budget win with planning hub

A centralised environmental database will speed up consenting and development, alongside investment in a more resilient highway network

Newsroom.co.nz

Wild, unseasonal weather unleashes severe thunderstorms

Unseasonal weather has unleashed heavy downpours and 500,000 lightning strikes across a rain-sodden region and caused chaos, triggering flash flooding.

AAP

Camp Mystic chief health officer barred from direct patient care by Texas nursing board

Mary Liz Eastland failed to develop proper emergency plans or properly respond to the flood that killed 25 campers and two counselors last year, the order states.

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Five villagers found alive in Laos cave as search continues for two missing

Video appears to show divers discovering group sitting on a rock surrounded by flood water

International Business Times UK

San Antonio Tornado Warning: Crews Race Against Time To Pull Victims From Submerged Cars

About 34,000 residents could have been impacted by the threat, the NWS warned on X.

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Rescuers Find 5 People Alive After Being Trapped In A Flooded Laos Cave For Over A Week

In what is truly miraculous news, 5 of the 7 villagers who became trapped in a Laos cave have been found with 2 still missing.

The Independent UK

Five villagers found alive after more than one week trapped in flooded Laos cave

Search efforts to locate the two others are still ongoing

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Newcastle Herald

Eerie warnings a year on from flooding and landslide

The Hunter is once again bracing for a drenching heading into winter.

Bangkok Post

5 of 7 people trapped in Laos cave found alive

Five of the seven people trapped in a flooded cave for a week in Laos were found alive on Wednesday afternoon, Lao and Thai rescuers said.

Bangkok Post

Songkhla demands aid schemes after flood

Amid a slump in Malaysian tourists and an uneven recovery from last year's severe floods, Songkhla tourism operators are calling for stimulus measures such as soft loans, land tax cuts, new tourism events, and eased entry at land checkpoints, with the cabinet set to convene in the province in June.

The Independent UK

Authorities urge Euphrates riverbank residents in Syria to move inland as waters rise

Water levels of the Euphrates River in northern and eastern Syria have risen, causing flooding over the past two days

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Gold Star widow posted a ‘long shot’ Memorial Day request on X. Then Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and strangers flooded Arlington

Rare wholesome gesture from the Trump administration.

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Cocoa Prices Jump on Adverse Global Weather Events

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN26 ) on Tuesday closed up +373 (+9.83%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN26 ) closed up +293 (+10.24%). Cocoa prices surged to 1.5-week highs on Tuesday amid fund short-covering, spurred by heavy rains in the Ivory Coast that have caused flooding and cut off...

The Independent UK

Moment car is dragged into raging flood waters as bridge collapses in China

New footage captures the moment a car plunged into a torrent of water after a bridge collapsed in flood-hit China.

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