Japan:Balls from disaster-hit area found in Alaska

Laaska News  Apr.21, 2012
Two sports balls found washed up on an island off the US state of Alaska are believed to have been swept away by tsunami that hit northeastern Japan last year and drifted across the Pacific.

Australia – Flood threat spreads but Wagga levee holds

Photo: Wagga Wagga,NSW - ABC News Video.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the city of Griffith as the southern New South Wales flood emergency spreads, but thousands more in central Wagga Wagga have been cleared to return home.

Papua New Guinea:28 Killed in Plane Crash & Survivor details escape from burning plane

Laaska News Oct. 15,2011
Survivor details escape from burning plane

 

28 Killed in Papua New Guinea Plane Crash

Twenty-eight people were killed in a plane crash in a remote region of Papua New Guinea on Thursday. Four others reportedly survived the crash.

Australia:Police sent in as flood death toll rises

Laaska News January 13,2011.
Extra police are being brought in to patrol vast flooded areas in Brisbane and Ipswich as the death toll from south-east Queensland’s devastating floods continues to rise.

Australia:Brisbane swamped as floodwaters rise

Laaska News January 11,2011.

Brisbane is preparing for the full impact of its worst flooding in more than 100 years, with officials warning almost 20,000 homes in the city will be flooded by early tomorrow morning.
Thirty-five Brisbane suburbs and 3,000 homes

Australia:Grave fears for dozens missing in deadly floods

Eight people are dead and grave fears are held for more than 70 people still missing after yesterday’s unprecedented flash flooding in southern Queensland.

Yemen: Muhaajiriin Soomaali ah oo badda lagu la’yahay

Laaska News January 4,2011  

(RM) Sida ay sheegeen maamulka dalka Yamen ugu yaraan 80 ruux oo muhaajiriin African ah ayaa laga cabsi qabaa in ay geeriyoodeen  kaddib markii doowaan Doonyo ay ku safrayeen ay kula degtay xeebaha dalka Yamen.

Australia:Sewage, blackouts, flies plague Rockhampton -PHOTO/VIDEO

Laaska News Jan.4,2011
By Josh Bavas(ABC).

The residents of Rockhampton are having to deal with raw sewage, swarms of mosquitoes, and power blackouts, as life goes on in the flooded city.

AP VIDEO:Flooding Turns Deadly in Australia

Laaska News January 3,2011.
Flooding Turns Deadly in Australia

Australia:More towns inundated as flood crisis endures

 Laaska News Jan. 2,2011.
By ABC
 
Twenty-two Queensland towns and cities are now inundated by water or isolated as the state’s flooding disaster continues, and authorities say the crisis has claimed eight lives in the past month.