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South African jurist Navi Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law. The Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted her courage, integrity and work to strengthen a legal order in which grave crimes can be prosecuted…
Families across central Panama are facing nights away from damaged homes after the 9 October earthquake and its continuing aftershocks. In Las Minas and Pesé, President José Raúl Mulino met people who had lost their homes as the government prioritised food deliveries and…
A destructive flash flood swept through the Budhi Gandaki river corridor in Nepal’s Gorkha district early on 11 October 2026 after a landslide appears to have temporarily blocked the river near Chumchet and the natural dam failed. Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and…
A flash flood on the Budhi Gandaki River swept away homes and bridges in Nepal’s Gorkha district on 11 October 2026. The Associated Press reported at least five people missing and 49 rescued by the Nepal Army. Those preliminary rescue and missing-person reports do not…
At 21:00 UTC on 10 October 2026, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) located Hurricane Simon near 17.6°N, 104.8°W, about 165 km south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. Simon was moving north at 7 km/h, with maximum sustained winds of 240 km/h and minimum central pressure of…
Post-tropical Cyclone Isaias was inland over central Alabama at 21:00 UTC on 10 October 2026, about 10 km west of Birmingham. The Weather Prediction Center (WPC) reported maximum sustained winds of 45 km/h and minimum central pressure of 1007 mb. Isaias was moving…
The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News published on 8 October reported 8,728 confirmed Bundibugyo virus disease cases, including 4,205 confirmed deaths and 2,269 recoveries, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of 6 October 2026. Confirmed cases had been…
A shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck about 102 kilometres northeast of Norsup in northern Vanuatu at 09:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on 8 October 2026. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) placed the centre at 15.541°S, 168.189°E and a depth of 10…
Floods in Mexico were linked in a national multi-episode summary from the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) to 16 reported deaths and 1,353 people displaced between 17 August and 4 October 2026. The summary combines several distinct local episodes in this…
The GDACS Orange flood alert for India now reports 135 deaths and 457,351 displaced people across the event period from 9 August to 3 October 2026. Compared with the 5 October snapshot, deaths increased by four while displacement remained unchanged. Earlier dated observations…
Floods in Vietnam were linked to two reported deaths and the displacement of 1,249 people between 3 September and 7 October 2026, according to the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS). For those displaced, the figures represent people forced away from their…
Floods in Nigeria were linked to six reported deaths and the displacement of 2,400 people between 21 September and 7 October 2026, according to the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS). For those displaced, the figures represent people forced away from their…
UNHCR's Jordan population dashboard records 352,553 registered refugees and asylum-seekers of all nationalities as of 1 October 2026. The total comprises 277,832 people living in urban settings and 74,721 living in camps. The country-of-origin table lists 329,720 Syrians,…
Flash Alert 22, published through UNHCR's Operational Data Portal, records 5,160 people in 860 households displaced to Afgooye after security operations and related armed confrontations in parts of Somalia's Lower Shabelle Region. The reported events occurred between 29…