Evacuation

More evacuations after Guatemala volcano erupts again

Emergency services scrambled to evacuate areas around the Fuego volcano, which erupted again with the death toll having climbed to 75. Almost 200 people have been reported missing.

New Hawaii lava fissures could spur more evacuations

Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano threatened highways after two more fissures opened in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 19.

'Russian deal in eastern Ghouta doesn't guarantee safety for medics'

As a mass evacuation continues from eastern Ghouta to Idlib under a Russian-brokered deal also guaranteed safety for remaining civilians, medics who have been systematically attacked in hospitals have no option but to leave.

Syrian opposition groups, civilians leave penultimate Ghouta pocket

Eastern Ghouta was the opposition's final stronghold on the edge of Damascus, but beleaguered opposition groups are now left with less than 10 percent of their one-time bastion.

Floor collapse at Indonesia Stock Exchange injures at least 77

At least 77 people were injured on Monday after a floor collapsed at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta. An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway.

New Zealand braces itself for more flooding

A state of emergency has been declared after severe storms brought on heavy flooding which resulted in hundreds of homes being evacuated in parts of New Zealand.

Croatia, Montenegro fight fires along the Adriatic coast

Firefighters are struggling with several forest fires, while some houses near Montenegro's coastal city of Herceg Novi were evacuated.

Wildfires prompt state of emergency & evacuation in western Canada

It is the first state of emergency that has been declared in the province since 2003.

Eight killed as storms & wild fires rage in South Africa

As Cape Town recovers from heavy storms with gale force winds and flash floods, authorities evacuate at least 10,000 people from Knysna as wild fires being accelerated by strong winds wreak havoc.

Syria's third largest city Homs comes under regime control

Hundreds of Syrian rebels and their families left the last opposition-held district of Homs, completing a deal that brought the whole city back under the regime's control for the first time since the start of the war in 2011.

Thousands of rebels and their families evacuated from Syria's Al Waer

The third round of the evacuation was conducted under a Russia-backed deal between the Syrian regime and opposition. Elsewhere the SDF continued to advance on Tabqa dam and Raqqa.

Iran, Qatar broker deal for evacuation of four Syrian towns

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced the deal. It said the evacuation of Al Foua, Kefraya, Zabadani and Madaya might not begin before April 4, but local ceasefires have gone into effect.