New Delhi, July 25 (RHC)-- In India, authorities have ended a rescue mission after a monsoon-triggered landslide in the western state of Maharashtra killed at least 27 people and flattened homes. At least 57 are still missing and presumed dead.
In Pakistan and Afghanistan, flash floods and landslides have killed at least 44 people in recent days.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization is warning global heating has pushed cases of dengue fever to near record highs.
In Bangladesh, authorities say the mosquito-borne viral infection has already reached epidemic proportions, killing 176 people this year, many of them children.