The Latest Breaking News from Flood

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Firefighters protected other buildings with sandbags, and urged people to avoid the area

US National Security Council says burst dam has probably caused ‘many deaths’ as fears grow for missing people. Plus, scientists trace the origins of masturbation

Plans for a £15million distillery project for Stirling have been narrowly rejected on appeal. An application for the Wolfcraig Distillery on a site at Craigforth was refused planning permission in March last year. But a Local Review Body appeal has

Russian saboteurs are prime suspects for blowing up Ukrainian Kakhovka dam, triggering massive floods, and forcing thousands to flee for their lives, but Moscow may also be planning to attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Deputy prime miniser says floodwater has disturbed mines planted earlier by Putin’s troops

Images supplied by Maxar technologies cover more than 2,500 square km and give some idea of the scale of the flooding and destruction in Kherson

Ukrainian president calls the destruction of the Kakhovka dam an act of ‘mass environmental destruction’ by Russia.

Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council dismisses claim counteroffensive has begun; up to 42,000 people at risk following destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam

Dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks to flee rising floodwaters caused by the breach of a dam upstream, as shelling in a war zone separating Ukrainian and Russian forces echoed overhead

Thousands of people are being evacuated after the largest dam in Ukraine was blown up, unleashing catastrophic floodwaters downstream.