Super Typhoon Fung-Wong hits Philippines
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines declared a state of national calamity on Thursday, as the Asian nation continues to reel from the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi.
More than one million people have been evacuated from high-risk villages in north-eastern provinces, including in Bicol, a coastal region vulnerable to Pacific cyclones and mudflows from Mayon, one of the country’s most active volcanoes.
Pakistan’s Chinese-origin air defence systems failed to stop Indian BrahMos attacks during Operation Sindoor. The precise BrahMos strikes on 11 Pakistani airbases worked wonders for India by dodging Chinese air defences.