An outbreak of bubonic plague has been reported in the Ascope province of Peru, on the northern border with Bolivia. There have been 31 cases in Peru, with one death, and eight cases in the town of Apolo, Bolivia. The infections have been limited to this region.

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 31 destinations: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Mexico, Afghanistan, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Mali, Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Chad, Haiti, Guinea, Nepal, Nigeria, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Georgia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Philippines, Algeria, Lebanon, Iran, Kenya, Colombia, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Yemen, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Somalia. 

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In northwest Pakistan, incessant monsoon rains in late July led to the worst flooding there since 1929. At least 1,100 people were killed and over one million displaced. Houses, bridges and roads were washed away, livestock drowned and crops were destroyed.

Hardest hit were the districts Charsada, Kohistan, Nowshera, Peshawar, Shangla and Swat in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and, in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the Upper Neelam Valley. 

The week before, flash floods killed about 70...