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Flash floods triggered by intense rainfall have claimed the lives of three individuals in northern West Virginia, according to local authorities. Emergency services continued search and rescue operations on Sunday as several people remained unaccounted for. The flooding, which occurred Saturday night,

Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian backed by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, has narrowly won Poland’s presidential runoff, securing 50.89% of the vote against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%, according to official results released by

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sumatra island early Friday, according to data from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). The earthquake occurred at a depth of approximately 10 kilometers beneath the surface, which is classified as shallow and can lead to more intense

Greenhouse gas emissions across the European Union rose by 2.2% in the fourth quarter of 2024, reaching an estimated 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents, according to data released by Eurostat. This represents an increase from 878 million tonnes recorded during

More than 160,000 residents near Barcelona were ordered to stay indoors on Saturday after a fire at a chemical storage warehouse sent a toxic chlorine cloud billowing over several coastal districts. The emergency measure, issued by Spanish authorities, came as

Germany has formally requested an exemption from European Union borrowing limits to substantially increase its defence spending, citing the need to address rising military threats from Russia. According to reports by Euractiv, the request was made through a letter sent

The European Parliament has taken a decisive step toward reinforcing the European Union’s defence capabilities by endorsing a draft law aimed at enhancing the bloc’s defence industry. On Thursday, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved measures that would strengthen

The European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee has adopted a draft law to extend and revise the European Union’s gas storage framework, introducing more flexible rules to help reduce market pressure and lower gas prices. The initiative, supported on

The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a warning that hunger and malnutrition levels are rapidly worsening across Ethiopia, where more than 10 million people are currently experiencing acute food insecurity. This includes approximately 3 million internally displaced persons, many

March 2025 was confirmed as the warmest March ever recorded in Europe and the second warmest globally, according to the latest bulletin released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The data, derived from the ERA5 dataset, recorded an average