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India fireworks factory blast kills 7
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
Firework use hits a peak across India during the festival, although the Supreme Court has been trying to restrict sales to tackle mounting pollution. The explos...
Pentagon to send about 800 troops to US-Mexico border
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
The active-duty troops would augment the 2,000 or so National Guardsmen already deployed to support operations on the border, and could come from multiple milit...
After storm, displaced Syrians fix tents in the mud
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
After the skies clear on Friday, Umm Mohammed steps outside her family's tent to better prepare it for the cold months ahead. She is one of 300 people living in...
Mattis approves military support on Mexico border
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
A Pentagon statement said the support would come in the form of logistical and engineering assistance, including the construction of "temporary barriers, barric...
Mexico announces aid options for Central American migrants
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
The plan was the first broad and detailed bid to address concerns of the flood of migrants, mostly from Honduras, who -- facing deadly violence and desperation ...
Dozens of civilians killed in Yemen's Hodeida: UN
Oct 25, 2018 (AFP)
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said at least 21 civilians were killed and 10 injured in strikes Wednesday that hit a vegeta...
US tech giants split over corporate tax to help homeless
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
On November 6, voters in the city that is the home base of Twitter, Uber and Airbnb will decide the fate of "Proposition C," a local ballot measure brought abou...
Israel to resume Gaza fuel flow Wednesday: defence ministry
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
Israel suspended the desperately needed deliveries of Qatari-financed diesel on October 12, hours after Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians who the army ...
UN Security Council to meet on Myanmar atrocities report
Oct 19, 2018 (AFP)
Nine countries including the United States, Britain and France requested the briefing that is likely to be opposed by China, which has friendly ties with Myanma...
Indonesia drops disinfectant on quake-hit Palu
Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)
The magnitude 7.5 quake and a subsequent tsunami razed swathes of the city on Sulawesi island on September 28. More than 2100 bodies have been recovered since t...
Malta takes migants after Italy stand-off
Oct 17, 2018 (AFP)
The Just Fitz III plucked 44 migrants from a rickety wooden boat late Monday after they ran into difficulty during the perilous crossing from North Africa. The ...
Moroccan navy rescues 38 migrants at sea
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
The Moroccan nationals were found in "poor health" and had been aboard the vessel since October 8, a military source told the agency. They were picked up by the...
Museveni visits site of deadly Uganda landslide
Oct 14, 2018 (AFP)
Wearing military uniform and carrying a cleft stick Museveni looked across the Sume river at the remains of Wanjenwa village which was wrecked by a torrent of r...
World Bank offers disaster-hit Indonesia $1 bn in loans
Oct 14, 2018 (AFP)
CEO Kristalina Georgieva unveiled the funds at Indonesian holiday island Bali, where the Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been holding their annual...
Rescue teams in Florida search for survivors in hurricane-devastated Mexico Beach
Oct 14, 2018 (AFP)
Wearing a hard hat and with a hammer in hand, chief Dobson, one of several hundred people searching for survivors in the ruins of Mexico Beach, gingerly climbs ...
Boulders litter Uganda villages crushed by deadly landslide
Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)
Hundreds of newly-deposited rocks, each the size of a van, litter the riverbanks after Thursday's landslide which killed 42 people and swept away nearly 150 hom...
Storm left wide swath of Florida a communications dead zone
Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)
"We have had some sites come back in service following the restoration of fiber links," cable operator Verizon said in a statement Friday. It has deployed five ...
In hurricane-hit Mexico Beach, a marathon clean-up begins
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
Some came Friday with vans or moving trucks, hoping to recover as many personal effects from their splintered homes as they could. Others came with nothing -- a...
Indonesia calls off grim search for dead in quake-tsunami
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
The magnitude 7.5 quake and a subsequent tsunami razed swathes of the city of Palu on Sulawesi island on September 28. A total 2,073 bodies had been recovered s...
Morocco navy fires on migrant boat, wounding one
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
Despite warning shots, "the motorboat that was carrying 58 migrants hidden under tarpaulin made a hostile move which forced the coastguard to fire at the captai...
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