SEOUL, Jul 17 (NNN-YONHAP) – A heavy rain watch was issued across South Korea’s metropolitan area, which was battered by downpours overnight, the interior ministry said, today. Heavy rain watches and warnings were issued in the capital Seoul, the western port city of Incheon, and many parts of their surrounding…

TOKYO, Jul 17 (NNN-NHK) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, yesterday struck Japan’s prefecture of Ibaraki, just north-east of Tokyo, the local weather agency, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), said. The temblor occurred at 10:19 p.m. local time (1319 GMT), measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale…

KABUL, Jul 17 (NNN-ANA) – The death toll from rainstorms and flooding in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, has risen to 40, and the number of injured has reached 347, the country’s Ministry of Public Health reported, yesterday. Health workers were dispatched to the affected areas for treating the injured, said…

MANILA, Jul 16 (NNN-PNA) – The death toll caused by massive flooding hitting Bangsamoro, in the southern Philippines, has climbed to eight, as the area continues to grapple with torrential rains, a local official said, yesterday. Benjamin Alip, municipal disaster officer in Pagalungan of Maguindanao del Sur province, in Bangsamoro…

DHAKA, Jul 16 (NNN-BSS) – The overall flood situation in parts of Bangladesh, including north-eastern Sylhet region, has improved with water levels in many rivers receding. According to a bulletin of the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), the major Brahmaputra-Jamuna rivers are in a falling trend, which may continue…

BISHKEK, Jul 16 (NNN-KNA) – Two people were killed and three went missing, after mud-flows caused by heavy rains flooded a market and several villages in northern Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan, according to local media reports. The Ak-Buura River overflowed in Osh city, flooding the central market, sweeping away goods and…

ISLAMABAD, Jul 16 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), forecast yesterday that, the country’s southern port city of Karachi, might face an increase in temperature, during the next two days. The PMD said in a statement that, the city’s heat intensity is likely to surge with hot and humid conditions…

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jul 16 (NNN-ANA) – At least 35 people were killed and 250 others were injured, as rainstorms and flash floods swept through east Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, yesterday afternoon, a local official said. The disaster, according to Nangarhar’s provincial director for information and culture, Qurishi Badlon, affected the provincial…

YANGON, Jul 15 (NNN-MNA) – Seven construction workers were missing, following a water barrier breaching, at a construction site near the bank of Ayeyarwady River, in central Myanmar’s Mandalay region yesterday, said an official from the Myanmar Rescue Organisation. The incident occurred in Amarapura township of Mandalay, around 8.30 a.m.…