The typhoon Ragasa, considered the strongest tropical cyclone of the year, struck the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday, 24 September.
The storm had already claimed 17 lives in Taiwan and brought severe winds and heavy rain to Hong Kong.
The typhoon is currently moving towards Maoming in Guangdong Province, a key city for oil refining. Satellite imagery precisely captures the moment it reached the province.
Benjamin Horton, Dean of the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong, emphasised that climate change is increasing the likelihood of stronger typhoons in southern China. According to him, following record-breaking rainfall, the region’s meteorological conditions are now particularly vulnerable.
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The U.S. Senate has blocked a Republican-backed funding bill for the 14th time, as the government shutdown reached 35 days on Tuesday — tying the longest in U.S. history.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday said that last week's Hurricane Melissa, the strongest-ever storm to hit its shores, caused damage to homes and key infrastructure roughly equivalent to 28% to 32% of last year's gross domestic product.
A UPS cargo jet burst into flames and crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport on 4 November, killing at least seven people and injuring 11 others.
French judicial authorities announced on Tuesday that they had launched an investigation into the Chinese social media platform TikTok, focusing on the potential dangers of its algorithms pushing young people towards suicide.
Russia said on Monday that its troops had advanced in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub that they have been trying to capture for over a year, but Ukraine said its forces were holding on.
At least 37 people have died and five are missing after devastating floods and landslides hit central Vietnam, officials said Monday, as a new typhoon threatens to worsen the disaster.
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan vowed on Monday to move on from deadly protests set off by last week's disputed election as she was sworn into office for her first elected term.
The eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk has emerged as a critical point in Russia’s campaign to seize the remaining Ukrainian-held parts of Donetsk, and its fate could shape the course of the conflict in the region.
Israel’s top military legal officer Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned last week, has been arrested over the leak of a video showing soldiers brutally assaulting a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military prison.
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a landmark victory that makes him the city’s first Muslim mayor.
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A UPS cargo jet burst into flames and crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport on 4 November, killing at least seven people and injuring 11 others.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday during a press briefing.
Forty-eight people were killed according to Cameroon's security forces, while responding to protests against the re-election of President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest sitting leader, according to data shared with Reuters on Tuesday by two United Nations sources.
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