ANTERNATIONAL

"THENEWS

Sunday °


July 26, 2026


Karachi Edition


as Typhoon Noul approaches.

BEWING: Authorities have have maximum sustained tory said it would consider | P*
evacuated more than 310,000 winds of 151-173 kilometres raising the warning to the
People and suspended work  por hour (04-107 miles per second-highest carly             He
and rail services as Typhoon hour). ..                       -: “Local winds   will   .;
Noul approaches southem     ~ More than 340, 000 peo. strengthen significantly over. | Be
China, with Night cancella- ple have been evacuated in night,” it added.
tions announced in the finan. Guangdong, Xinhua news The city’s airport author.
cial hub of Hong Kong. .          agency said.                         ity said on Saturday that at

The typhoon ts forecast Twelve cities across the least 49 flights were can-[ 538
to make landfall along the province including Guang. cclicd and 238 delayed, add-       ee
coast between Shenzhen zhou, Dongguan and Shan ing that “a large number of | Bey
and Haifeng in Guangdong tou have suspended “classes, Rights 3 are expected to be| &
province early Sunday, Chi- work, production, business affected tomorrow",           Ri
na’s Nathonal Meteorological operations, and transportae — Hong Kong airline Cathay | $22
Center said,                    * tion” either fully or partially, Pacific said it had cancelled | fs

The Chinese weather itadded,               all flights scheduled to/i%
forecaster issued a red. All train services in the arrive and depart from Hong
typhoon alert on Saturday province will be halted on Kong International Alrport |
night, the highest level in its Sunday, state broadcaster between 1:15 am and 6:00 [k?
fourtdersysiem ~ °° CCIVsald                    pm local time Sunday (17151 &
. Parts of Guangdong and    Financia! hub | Hong Kong GMT Saturday and 1000} 2
neighbouring Hunan, Fujian issued on Saturday night its GMT Sunday).
and Jiangxi provinces are third-highest typhoon wam- —” “A small number of other | é
set to recelve heavy rainfall Ing, with local authorities flights will be delayed as}¢
from Saturday night to Sun- saying it had opened 28 tem- we set up our flying plan to
day night, it sald,          “ porary shelters across the resume once the typhoon
.. Whenthetyphoon makes city. . |.     tee   passes,” it sald in a statement
landfall, it is forecast to, - The Hong Kong Observa-                       ”

Saturday. —AFP

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‘Japan
‘records fifth

‘cruelly

hot day’

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fifth consecutive “cruclly hot
day” on Saturday, anew mete.
orological term devised this
year to wam people of intense
heat above 40C, as officials
issued heatstroke warnings in
parts of the country.

The streak marks the
longest number of days in a
tow with blistering tempera-
(ures since records started in
2010, public broadcaster NHK
and other Japanese media

Six cities in central Japan
inctuding in the Aichi and
Gifu regions surpassed the

new threshold for “kokush- | said,

obi", which translates to “ery
elly hot day’, according to the
SepanBeteorbogea Agency
GMA).         «°
By using this designa-
tion, JMA said in April that
it would be able to “more

France and Spain

BORDEAUX: Unchecked filled her village of Navalag- decreased in intensity”, But
wildfires raging Saturday in amella “I thought everything the battles were far from won.
France's southwest and near was going to bum, the house —_ Spain's Sanchez warned:
Spain's capital Madrid have and everthing’,          *         “We are going to have
forced 267,000 people to fee = “Here you can breathe some complex hours ahead
and prompted Paris to deploy normally ~ yesterday it was because although the tem-
its military. -.              oe         unbearable,” she said, sitting peratures have gone down,
France hustled  197, 000  ina gymnssiumtumedshe- we do not know exactly how
people from areas around ter.                       . the wind will develop, | how
Bordeaux = including vacae - Overstretched firefighters strongit willbe.” ~
tion spots crowded this time in Spain and France battling The fires in Spain and

FLIES


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 “Snia bus
crash

In   kills”

at least 35:

DAMASCUS:
between two pasienger buses:
in a central-eastem desert
tegion of Syria on Saturday
killed at least 35 people, state
mediasaid, *

News agency SANA,
quoting a health ministry
official, also sald 30 others
were injured in the “collision
between two passenger buses:
on the Damascus Deir Bxor

road’.               -
‘Tee interior rintstry said

A crash

of year ~ in what was “prob- around the clock for days France advanced quickly | the crash was between *a bus
ably* the biggest peacetime have been unable to contain because of tinderbox condi- | carrying a number of internal
‘evacuation the country has the infemos, though author tions worsened by successive] security forces personnel and
seen, its interior minister ities in both countrics sug- heatwaves the two countries / a civilian bus", without speck
the intensity of some have expericnoed since May. | fying how many of the casual.
In Spain, where 70,000 of the blazes had notched   - Scientists say global] ties were from its forces. ,
people were evacuated from down                 warming is increasing] ’ State media broadcast
villages west of Madrid, So far, no deaths have droughtsand causing weather | footage of the crash, includ.
Prime Minister Pedro San+ been reported in the civilian emergencies to become more | ing images of a bus on fire and
chez said the priority was “to population, but two French extreme and more frequent. | with debris strewn along the
save lives” as he visited the firefighters diced carlicr this Europe is the fastest-warm- | highway, and reported that
firezone. © 9” week near Bordeaux.    ’- ing continent due to climate | military helicopters had been

effectively call for vigilance
against extremely high tem
oy!   Peratures”, although the term,
does not trigger any official
Incosures nationwide. - ~
Close to 11,000 people

‘The sky over Madrid was
covercd by a haze of brown
grey stooke and thick black
ash coated roof terraces in
the centre north of the city,
AFP joumalists saw. Resi-

France's interior minis-
ter, Laurent Nunez, said the -
wildfire in the Gironde region
where Bordeaux §s located

change.

Both “countries were
receiving EU help in the form
of firefighting aircraft from

deployed to airtift casualties.

fromtwescene, «~~
Emergency and disaster

management minister Racd

“was less intense last night other European countries. - | Al Salch described the crash

than we feared” and was no «”

France has deployed] as “one of the deadliest road

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sought out emergency med-
ical care in Japan between
July 13 and 19, according to
the Fire and Disaster Manage
ment Agency,

Fourteen of those were
pronounced dead upon
arrival, the agency said,
adding that the public must
regard the extreme heal a3 a

“disaster”,

ex   ences about

dents forced to keep their longer a “convective” type of 1,000 soldiers to help fire-| accidents in Syria in recent
windows closed by the smell fire that self-fucts through ris- fighters near Bordeaux, and | years in terms of the number
ofthroatinitating smoke. _. Ing cwre