The death toll from flash floods in a northern Afghan province has hit 50 -- most of them women and children -- an official said on Saturday, a week after the disaster struck. The floods that inundate

Flood waters have ravaged a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 19 people and destroying hundreds of homes.

Sayed Faizullah Sadat, the national disaster director in Sar-e-Pul

Sixteen people were killed and 20 went missing after floods ravaged Afghanistan's Takhar province, an official said.

Heavy rains and flood took place in Takhar province, 245 km north of capital Kabul

At least 25 people were killed while attending a wedding party in an Afghan village as flood washed away several houses, a government official said. Locals believe over 100 people are still missing.

Rescuers scouring Nepal's central Annapurna region after severe flash flooding said on Sunday that there was almost no hope of finding survivors and that the final death toll could be as high as 60.

Eight people were killed on Saturday and three Russian tourists missing after a river burst its banks and swept away a village near one of Nepal's most popular Himalayan tourist destinations, police s

Fiji struggled to cope on Monday with devastating floods that have brought the country to a standstill with warnings that it could get worse as an incoming storm threatens to become a cyclone.

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Thousands of Australians were on Saturday ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney's northwest and elsewhere in New South Wales state as heavy rainfall flooded rivers and waterways.

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Thousands of Australians were forced to abandon their homes on Sunday as record flooding that has cut off thousands of people threatened to engulf areas devastated by wild weather last year.

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The Philippines prepared for mass burials of flood victims on Monday to minimise health risks from rotting cadavers after a cyclone disaster left hundreds dead or missing on Mindanao island.

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