A powerful typhoon that battered Tokyo overnight has killed two people, as canceled trains caused commuter chaos and more than 100 flights were scrapped.

Greek officials have begun evacuating hundreds of refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos, where the crushing heat has made conditions unbearable.

Wildfire in the Canary Islands led to the partial evacuation of a small town in Gran Canaria island on Saturday, and officials said the blaze had a "great potential" to spread.

Nearly 600,000 people are advised to evacuate as severe tropical storm Krosa makes landfall in Japan.

Local authorities evacuated 500 residents from the villages of Kontodespoti and Makrimalli and the monastery of Panagia Makrymallis on the Greek island of Euboea on Tuesday as fire-fighters tackled raging wildfires.

The death toll from a massive landslide has hit 59.

Flood victims were forced to evacuate from their homes after heavy rains and overflowing rivers swamped vast swathes of India on Sunday (July 28).

The Syrian army has warned civilians to leave the northwestern Idlib province as it prepares for a military campaign to flush terrorists out of the region.

An analyst says US claim of Iran threat in Iraq is an attempt to justify any possible aggression against the Islamic Republic and that Trump would end up on his own if he wages a war on the country.

A powerful cyclone lashed coastal areas of eastern India on Friday with torrential rain and winds gusting up to 200 kilometers per hour (124 mph), but there were no early reports of casualties.