France recorded over 100 drowning deaths in just one month — a 58% rise from last year — as unusually high temperatures drove more people to water, public health officials say.
According to Santé Publique France, 429 total drownings were reported between June 1 and July 2, marking a 95% increase compared to the same period in 2024. More than 100 of these incidents were fatal.
The spike comes in the wake of a severe heatwave that gripped much of Europe in late June. “These increases occurred in a context of high temperatures... which led to an increase in people going to swimming areas to cool off,” the agency said.
The 10-day heatwave, which ended on July 2, also contributed to 2,300 heat-related deaths across 12 European cities, according to scientists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit out at European leaders, accusing them of whipping up hysteria calling them "dishonest".
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met French President Emmanuel Macron in Copenhagen on 2 October to discuss regional peace and bilateral relations.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
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The UN warns that gang control over most of Haiti’s capital is worsening the hunger crisis and blocking humanitarian aid.
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