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  IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Cyclone Yaas brought devastation to India and Bangladesh in May Weather events, linked to a changing climate, brought misery to millions around the world in 2021 according to a new report. The study, from the charity Christian Aid, identified 10 extreme events that each caused more than $1.5bn of damage. The biggest financial impacts were from Hurricane Ida which hit the US in August and flooding in Europe in July. In many poorer regions, floods and storms caused mass displacements of people and severe suffering. Not every extreme weather event is caused by or linked to climate change, although scientists have become bolder in exploring the connections. One leading researcher, Dr Friederike Otto, tweeted earlier this year that every heatwave happening in the world now is "made more likely and more intense" by human induced climate change. In relation to storms and hurricanes, there is growing evidence that climate change is also aff...

  CAIRO -- The bodies of 27 Europe-bound migrants, including a baby and two women, have washed ashore in western Libya, the country’s Red Crescent said, describing the latest tragedy involving migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in pursuit of better lives in Europe. The bodies were found late Saturday in two separate locations in the coastal town of Khoms, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of the capital of Tripoli, the Red Crescent’s branch there said. Three other migrants were rescued, and search efforts were underway for others, it said. The Red Crescent, a Muslim organization equivalent to the Red Cross, posted images it said showed bodies floating in the Mediterranean Sea with its workers putting them in black burial bags. The bodies were then taken to the morgue of Khoms hospital, said Dr. Osama al-Saket, the hospital’s director. He said their burial was a challenge to local authorities given the large number of bodies. “They mostly can deal with one or two bodi...