Super typhoon makes landfall in Philippines as nearly a million evacuated
Typhoon Fung-wong has made landfall in the Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died.
The storm was upgraded to a super typhoon before landfall, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h (115mph) and gusts of 230km/h (143mph).
The eye of the storm hit Aurora province in Luzon - the Philippines's most populous island - at 21:10 local time (13:10 GMT). The country's meteorological service warned of destructive winds and "high-risk of life-threatening and damaging storm surge" as the typhoon moves north-westerly across Luzon.
Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports
Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with drought
Sun 9 Nov 2025 12.37 GMT
Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad have plunged below 3%, according to reports, as the country suffers from severe water shortages.
“The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now fallen to less than 3%,” Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran’s second largest city by population, told the ISNA news agency.
November 9: A fateful day in the history of Germany
From the end of the monarchy to the 1938 pogroms to the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9 is a significant date on the German calendar.
The date on which the monarchy fell in 1918, Adolf Hitler staged his failed coup attempt in 1923, the Nazis and antisemitic mobs attacked synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses in 1938, and the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, November 9 is known as the "day of destiny" in Germany.
DW surveys some moments that set the course of German history.
Ten years after the Paris attacks, how trauma affects families across generations
As France marks 10 years since the November 13 attacks, a new study is examining how trauma is still rippling through affected families and reshaping the lives of the next generation who were children when the violent attacks tore through Paris.
It has been 10 years since terrorists carried out a series of coordinated attacks across Paris that killed 130 people and left a nation in shock. But the reverberations of that night continue to shape countless lives, from those who survived the violence, to those who lost loved ones, to the first responders who rushed to help. And among them are the children who have grown up in the shadow of November 13.
While some children lost parents, others witnessed their own parents’ trauma unfold in the years that followed. For these families, the past 10 years have been a quiet, ongoing effort to adapt to a moment that changed their lives forever. And the place they find themselves in today, whether or not they have been able to reconstruct themselves after that fatal night, is at the heart of a groundbreaking study on trauma led by French researchers.
UN rights office warns of ‘unimaginable atrocities’ in Sudan’s el-Fasher
UN estimates 82,000 of el-Fasher’s total population of 260,000 fled after RSF atrocities, with many still trapped.
By Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies
The United Nations Human Rights Office in Sudan says that “brutal attacks” are escalating in el-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city in the western region of Darfur last month.
“Over the past 10 days, el-Fasher has witnessed an escalation of brutal attacks. It has become a city of grief,” Li Fung, the UN’s human rights representative in Sudan, said in a video published on X on Saturday.
UK and Germany have accused Russia of threatening their satellites. Here’s what that means
Germany and the United Kingdom have warned of the growing threat posed by Russian and Chinese space satellites, which have been regularly spotted spying on satellites used by Western powers.
The countries have in recent weeks highlighted frequent instances of Russia stalking, jamming and interfering with their satellites in space.
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