Officials told local residents to prepare for possible evacuation after water began gushing from a 60-foot crack in the Panguitch Lake Dam on Monday. Later, they confirmed that the issues were not likely to cause a complete dam failure. The fissure was discovered in the upper portion of the dam during an inspection Monday night, […]
CANADIAN, Texas—Rapidly moving Texas wildfires Tuesday prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down a nuclear facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fueled the blaze in the state’s rural Panhandle. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties as the largest fire burned nearly 400 square miles, […]
BEIJING—Around 1,000 tourists remain stranded in a remote holiday village after avalanches hit China’s northwestern Xinjiang region with meters-high snow, state TV reported on Tuesday. Road access to Hemu village, a scenic destination near the borders of Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia where the tourists were trapped, has been cut off by avalanches for several days […]
Capitol police clashed with violent protestors outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Washington, D.C., with authorities restraining the activists calling for a ceasefire in Gaza late Wednesday. “Right now, our officers are working to keep back approximately 150 people who are illegally and violently protesting in the area of Canal Street and Ivy Street, […]
Iceland has declared a state of emergency, with police officials urging residents to evacuate the coastal town of Grindavík following an intense wave of earthquakes in the southwest of the country linked to a possible volcanic eruption. Nearly 800 quakes were recorded between midnight and 2 p.m. on Friday, with the shallowest at a depth […]
An organization of U.S. Army veterans has helped to provide safe passage to more than 200 Americans in Israel after the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas launched its deadly cross-border attacks on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 people and taking at least 222 hostages. In a statement on Oct. 23, the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization called […]
Israeli forces on Oct. 18 urged residents in northern Gaza to evacuate to the town of Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, claiming the latter area is now a “humanitarian area.” In an evacuation advisory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it “continues to call on the residents of the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City to evacuate […]
BOGOTA—A strong earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck the Colombian capital Bogota on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, prompting frightened residents to flee into the street and leading a woman to fall to her death. There were no immediate reports of major damage from the quake, which Colombia’s national geological service reported as a […]
HAMBURG, Calif.—Rural areas near California’s border with Oregon were under evacuation orders Wednesday after gusty winds from a thunderstorm sent a lightning-sparked wildfire racing through national forest lands, authorities said. The blaze in Siskiyou County, dubbed the Head Fire, was one of at least 20 fires—most of them tiny—that erupted in the Klamath National Forest […]
WARSAW, Poland—Some 14,000 people were evacuated Friday in the eastern Polish town of Lublin to allow military experts to remove a massive unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II. City authorities said on the X platform later Friday that the bomb had been successfully removed and residents can return home. The police, Territorial […]
The United States has ordered the evacuation of some staff and families from its embassy in Niger’s capital, Niamey, amid a military coup that has ousted the West African country’s democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. “Today, we ordered the temporary departure of non-emergency personnel and eligible family members from Niger,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in […]
Emergency evacuations have been reported in China. Thousands fled apartment buildings overnight last week in Tianjin, a major port city in the northeast. Reports say the area is no longer safe after land collapses created large cracks on nearby streets last week.
WASHINGTON—Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones. American unmanned aircraft, which have been keeping an eye on overland evacuation routes for days, provided armed overwatch for a bus convoy […]
The first evacuation flight from Sudan has landed in the UK. Over 300 Britons have escaped the war-torn nation, with hundreds more still to come. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is to face his first electoral test next week with over 8,000 local council seats up for grabs. The government announces that it has met a […]
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Wednesday that a second American citizen has died in Sudan amid an ongoing violent conflict between the army and a paramilitary group. Kirby, speaking to reporters via video call, did not provide further details on the circumstances of the unidentified American’s death, but he did […]
WASHINGTON—The White House said Monday the United States is helping from afar as thousands of Americans left behind in Sudan seek to escape fighting in the east African nation, after the U.S. Embassy evacuated all of its diplomatic personnel over the weekend and shut down. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, defended the […]
KHARTOUM—Some foreign nationals began evacuating from Sudan on Saturday after a week of strife that has killed hundreds of civilians, even as the army used air strikes against a rival paramilitary force during battles in central Khartoum. The bloody onslaught of urban warfare has trapped large numbers in the Sudanese capital. The airport has been […]
The Pentagon said it is repositioning troops in the region of Sudan ahead of a possible evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum as fighting between rival Sudanese factions intensifies and as the U.S. State Department confirmed the death of one American citizen. “We can confirm the death of one U.S. citizen in Sudan,” a […]
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Thursday, according to South Korea’s military, triggering a scare in northern Japan. The launch prompted Japan’s government-run emergency broadcasting system, J-Alert, to warn millions of residents on the northern island of Hokkaido to “evacuate immediately” and take immediate cover in a building or underground, saying the missile was expected to land […]
