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Trump: no political support for assault rifle controls
Aug 07, 2019 (AFP)
Trump told reporters that he and leaders in Congress support legislation to prevent mentally ill people from possessing firearms via background checks. "I think...
Morocco navy picks up 400 migrants en route to Spain
Aug 05, 2019 (AFP)
Some of those taken ashore were "in a state of poor health" and received first aid aboard Moroccan coastguard vessels, before being taken to ports in the north ...
Natural disasters cause greater havoc in 2019: Munich Re
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
Between January and June, material damage mounted to $42 billion from 370 natural disasters around the globe, the financial firm said in a statement. In 2018, d...
Dozens of migrants still stuck on vessel in Italy port
Jul 28, 2019 (AFP)
"The Gregoretti berthed in the port of Augusta overnight, as is the normal procedure for a military vessel. Now the EU has to act because the migration question...
FAA Adopts NASA Aviation Distress Beacon Recommendations
Jul 24, 2019 (SPX)
In 2010, a seaplane returning from a fishing trip crashed just northwest of Aleknagik, Alaska. Five of the nine people aboard died and two were injured. Ted Ste...
Climate change increasing hurricanes, storms, floods, North Carolina records show
Jul 23, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers have been tracking tropical cyclone landfalls and precipitation associated with Coastal North Carolina storms since 1898. When scientists analyzed t...
Hospital ship USNS Comfort arrives in Costa Rica
Jul 22, 2019 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy said Monday the vessel traveled from Callo, Peru, and arrived in Costa Rica on Sunday for a five-day stay in port, part of a 14-nation mission in ...
Britain to send 250 troops to U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali
Jul 22, 2019 (UPI)
The three-year deployment, to begin early in 2020, is Britain's largest since its involvement in Bosnia in the 1990s, and will aid an international force, under...
Bolsonaro says claims of hunger in Brazil 'a big lie'
Jul 20, 2019 (AFP)
Speaking to foreign journalists, Bolsonaro blamed "populists" for propagating "a big lie" that some of Brazil's 209 million people did not have enough to eat. "...
'Nobody cares about us': Hunger and despair for India flood victims
Jul 18, 2019 (AFP)
"When many of us poor people drown, then the politicians suddenly take notice... But otherwise, nobody cares about us," shopkeeper Raj Majhi told AFP. Majhi's h...
Pentagon: 2,100 more troops headed to U.S.-Mexico border in Texas
Jul 18, 2019 (UPI)
Acting Defense Secretary Richard Spencer, who took responsibility of the Defense Department on Tuesday, authorized the additional personnel Wednesday. Spencer h...
USNS Comfort leaves Peru after treating 4,500 Venezuelan refugees
Jul 17, 2019 (UPI)
The ship completed its five-day "medical mission," the U.S. Southern Command said in a statement on Wednesday, to "relieve pressure on national medical systems ...
'Not scared': Bayou residents refuse to flee storm Barry
Jul 13, 2019 (AFP)
"I'm not scared," Nguyen said Friday outside a friend's trailer home in Boothville, a fishing village about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of New Orleans, ...
Using satellite information to help rebuild after a disaster
Jul 13, 2019 (ESA)
On 28 September 2018, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was struck by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. The epicentre was on the island's northwest coast - 77 km nort...
Over three dozen killed in monsoon rains in South Asia
Jul 13, 2019 (AFP)
The monsoon, which lasts from June to September, causes widespread death and destruction across South Asia each year. In Nepal, 27 people have died in floods an...
Aid pledges to cyclone-ravaged Mozambique inadequate: UN chief
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
International donors last month pledged $1.2 billion (1.06 billion euros) after the poor southern African country was battered by two powerful cyclones within w...
Ukraine inaugurates giant dome over destroyed Chernobyl reactor
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
Branded as the world's largest moveable metal structure, the so-called New Safe Confinement seals the remains of the fourth reactor at the nuclear plant that wa...
Navy hospital ship Comfort completes first 2019 mission in Ecuador
Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)
During a symbolic closing ceremony Wednesday, Comfort leadership, as well as local and U.S. guests, described the "commitment between the partnering nations and...
Pope calls for 'humanitarian corridors' for migrant rescues
Jul 07, 2019 (AFP)
"The international community cannot accept such grave incidents," the pope said during a Sunday address at St. Peter's square. "I hope that humanitarian corrido...
One killed, thousands displaced in Rohingya camp landslides
Jul 07, 2019 (AFP)
About 35 centimetres (14 inches) of rain fell in 72 hours before the landslides started Saturday in camps around Cox's Bazar that house more than 900,000 of the...
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