KHERSON, Ukraine—Ukrainians abandoned inundated homes on Wednesday as floods crested across the south after the destruction of a huge hydroelectric dam on front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, with their presidents trading blame for the disaster. Residents slogged through flooded streets carrying children on their shoulders, dogs in their arms, and belongings in plastic…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Ian regained hurricane strength as it spun toward South Carolina a day after devastating a cross section of Florida. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm’s maximum sustained winds increased Thursday to 75 mph (120kph). It was centered about 240 miles (390 kilometers) south of Charleston, South Carolina, and moving northeast at…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed homes and businesses and left millions in the dark. The destruction began to come into focus a day after Ian made landfall in Florida as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed homes and businesses and left millions in the dark. The destruction began to come into focus a day after Ian made landfall in Florida as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit, and knocking out power to 2.5 million people before aiming for the Atlantic Coast on Thursday. One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States churned across…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Hurricane Ian destroyed a cross-section of Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, forcing patients from nursing homes and hospitals, cutting off a popular barrier island and obliterating a historic waterfront pier. Nearly 2.7 million people lost power as rain fell and waters rose. Floodwaters rose waist-high near Orlando, far inland, as one of…

The Cockerhams of Beattyville, Kentucky have lost everything again. Their home has been destroyed by flooding twice in 17 months. In the heart of Appalachia, Earl Cockerham 81, and his wife Jennifer Cockerham, 62, live on Social Security, on the land once owned by Earl’s grandparents. The North Fork of the Kentucky River flooded their…

OUAGADOUGOU—A seventh dead body of a miner missing from a Burkina Faso zinc mine owned by Trevali Mining Corp. that flooded on April 16 was discovered on Wednesday and search teams are continuing to look for an eighth, the government said in a statement. Hopes of finding any survivors vanished last month when rescue teams…

BERLIN—Officials say a vaccination center was flooded and five people were injured by hail during heavy storms in southwestern Germany overnight. All appointments for Thursday at the vaccination center in Tuebingen were canceled after the site was swamped by torrential rain late Wednesday. Police said five people were injured in the nearby town of Reutlingen…