Spain flooding death toll climbs to 211 as clean-up efforts in mud-soaked streets continue

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Valencia, Spain, has reached 211, the country’s prime minister announced Saturday as the search for survivors — and bodies — continued in devastated cities and towns left caked in mud and strewn with debris. “The situation we are living in is tragic,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said […]

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Number of rare local dengue cases ticks up in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County is now reporting 11 locally acquired cases of dengue this year — about double the number of local cases of the mosquito-borne disease reported in the county at the beginning of the month. County health authorities reported the two most recent cases Wednesday, both in residents who had no history of recent […]

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