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A view of the submerged Danube River after the Danube River has almost reached its peak due to Storm Boris on September 21, 2024, in Budapest, Hungary. Photo: Filip Stevanovic/Anadolu via Getty Images

Hungarian capital’s river reaches 10-year high while flooding brings city to standstill

The river water reached the steps of the Hungarian parliament.

A flood wave charges through the western Polish city of Wrocław on September 19 2024. In Ostrow Tumski, in the very center of Wroclaw, religious buildings, hotels and tenement houses have been secured with sandbags. Photo by: Maciej Kulczynski via PAP

Inland water navigation in northwestern Poland banned as flood wave advances

Poland’s water authority has shut down inland navigation in the northwestern region as a destructive flood wave advances.

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Rare hyena-like animal migrates to central Europe

A small mammal related to the hyena and originally from Sub-Saharan Africa has migrated to central Europe for the first time.

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