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US extends troop deployment at Mexico border
Jan 15, 2019 (AFP)
Lengthening the troops' mission past a January 31 deadline, the Pentagon said it was "transitioning its support at the southwestern border from hardening ports ...
Tech to the rescue: New products aim to improve disaster relief
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
The machines, which have been deployed in other global disaster areas, were among the technologies on display at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show to highlight...
Saudi teen's asylum case being judged at lightning speed
Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)
Canberra has insisted it will treat the case of 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun "in the usual way, as it does with all" refugee cases referred by the United...
'Come together': US Dems introduce gun background check bill
Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)
A similar bill was introduced last year by Democrats, but Republican leaders declined to bring it to a vote. The new bill -- which has the backing of former con...
China must act to stem Myanmar's runaway meth trade: report
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
Myanmar's Shan state is now thought to be one of the largest producers -- if not the largest producer -- of meth in the world, feeding a growing market that str...
Brazil reinforces troops trying to stop northeast crime wave
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
The deployments -- the first test of new President Jair Bolsonaro's tough-on-crime policies -- will grow to around 500 strong, the news reports said. Three hund...
Storm wrecks Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
Some of the worst affected were the refugees living in Arsal, a mountainous border area in northern Lebanon where the roofs of rudimentary shacks caved under th...
With phone and hashtag, Saudi asylum seeker outflanks Thai authorities
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun fled the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom after she was allegedly subjected to physical and psychological abuse by her family. But denie...
Global natural disasters wreak $160 bn damage in 2018: Munich Re
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
The financial toll was far below the $350 billion recorded the previous year in a record hurricane season, the firm said in its annual reckoning, but above the ...
Scientists use satellite images to measure household poverty
Jan 07, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have developed methods for quantifying economic living conditions at the household level using high resolution satel...
Death toll from Philippine storm, landslides climbs to 126
Jan 06, 2019 (AFP)
The storm hit central and eastern Philippine islands on December 29 and caused massive flooding and landslides. More than 100 people died in the mountainous Bic...
Britain warns on travel to southern India after temple unrest
Jan 05, 2019 (AFP)
In updated travel advice, London advised UK nationals in Kerala, popular with tourists particularly at this time of year, to "monitor media reports closely, rem...
Brazil troops deploy to stop criminal attacks in northern city
Jan 05, 2019 (AFP)
By the end of the weekend, 300 soldiers will be patrolling that city and other towns in Ceara state in a bid to halt the rampage, national public security secre...
Army helps Dutch island clean-up after ship spills cargo
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
A hundred soldiers landed at dawn on the island of Schiermonnikoog, off the Dutch north coast, where a closed bag of a dangerous powder was discovered washed up...
British navy joins patrol for Channel migrant dinghies
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
HMS Mersey is filling the gap until two Border Force cutters return from the European Union's Mediterranean migrant crossings mission. Her Majesty's Ship Mersey...
Pentagon asked for more help on the US-Mexico border: official
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Department of Homeland Security had requested certain "capabilities," and that the Pentagon would de...
Brazil sends troops to quell criminal attacks in northeast
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
Bolsonaro said the deployment of 300 soldiers to the state of Ceara over the next 30 days was "apt, rapid and effective" and necessary to protect the local popu...
British navy called out to tackle migrant dinghies
Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)
An Iranian and a British national have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal migration across the Channel, the world's busiest shipping lane. Attem...
Fresh clashes in India temple dispute
Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)
A day after violence among rival groups and with police left one man dead and 15 people injured, authorities said that 266 protestors had been arrested across t...
Disasters rock Indonesia's '10 New Balis' tourism push
Jan 02, 2019 (AFP)
But the beachside town now lies in ruins, pummelled by a deadly tsunami that has raised fresh questions about disaster preparedness and the future of a multi-bi...
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