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- Dead animals lie on the mud after heavy rains in Volos, central Greece, on Sept. 6, 2023. The storms flooded 720 square kilometers (72,000 hectares), mostly prime farmland, totally destroying crops. They also swamped hundreds of buildings, broke the country's railway backbone, savaged local roads and bridges and killed tens of thousands of livestock. Thessaly accounts for about 5% of national economic output, and a much larger proportion of agricultural produce. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou, File)
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The cost of damage from the record floods in Greece's breadbasket is estimated to be in the billions
By COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press
Sat,09/16/23-1:08AM , 296 Reads
ZAGORA, Greece (AP) — The apples were almost ripe for harvesting when the worst storms in more than a century struck Greece's breadbasket in Thessaly.
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- Mohammed Khier Qalaji, the brother of Firas Qalaji a Syrian man who died during the floods in the Libyan city of Derna, shows through his mobile phone the children of his brother who were also killed with their father, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Firas Qalaji, 45, a car mechanic, had been living in Libya since 2000 and his wife Rana Khateeb and their six children were to be buried in Libya, the family said in a statement. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
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Dozens of Syrians are among the missing in catastrophic floods in Libya, a war monitor says
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Sat,09/16/23-12:06AM , 265 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian dentist, a confectioner who made mouthwatering Arabic sweets, a carpenter.

Syrians from all walks of life had left their war-torn country for the Libyan city of Derna over the past years, looking for work and better opportunities.
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- A wild turkey crosses a field in Freeport, Maine, Monday, May 4, 2020. Kansas has canceled its fall turkey hunting season, state officials announced Friday ,Sept. 15, 2023, amid a decline in turkey populations across the Midwest and Southeast. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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Kansas cancels its fall turkey hunting season amid declining populations in pockets of the US
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fri,09/15/23-5:25PM , 1,213 Reads
Kansas has canceled its fall turkey hunting season, state officials announced Friday, amid a decline in turkey populations across the Midwest and Southeast.

Kansas has documented “consistent declines” in turkey populations over the last 15 years, the state's Department of Wildlife and Parks said in a statement.
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- A storm that dumped torrential rain, triggering flooding and killing thousands in Libya is likely the latest extreme weather linked to global warming, expert suggests. (AP Video/Muhammad J. Elalwany) (Sept. 15)
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Searchers look for more than 10,000 missing in flooded Libyan city where death toll eclipsed 11,000
By YOUSEF MOURAD - Associated Press
Fri,09/15/23-2:33AM , 461 Reads
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities limited access to the flooded city of Derna on Friday to make it easier for searchers to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 people still missing and presumed dead follow
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