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Thousands evacuated as explosions spark fire at Ukraine arms depot
Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)
Security services said they were investigating "possible sabotage" in the incident at a defence ministry depot near the village of Druzhba, in the northern Cher...
Morocco navy says 615 migrants saved in weekend ops
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
The Spanish coastguard announced on Sunday that in 48 hours it had rescued nearly 1,200 migrants bound for its shores -- a main entry point for clandestine migr...
In quake-hit Haiti, hospital labors to treat the wounded
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
Not only are doctors and nurses lacking the supplies they need, the damage caused by the 5.9-magnitude tremor late Saturday made conditions even more challengin...
Haiti quake upends lives already stressed by poverty
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
Nearly all the flimsily built houses along the mudslicked corridor that runs up the hill through L'Hopital show damage from Saturday's 5.9 magnitude quake. "Whe...
International aid effort for Indonesia quake-tsunami swings into gear
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
A total of 1,424 people have been confirmed dead and over 2,500 injured after the monster earthquake struck Friday, sending destructive waves barrelling into Su...
Bangladesh kids turn the tide on climate change aboard floating schools
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
But seven-year-old Mosammat is learning her ABCs aboard a boat fitted with a classroom and play equipment that is helping children thrive even as climate change...
Indonesia quake kids traumatised as rescuers race against clock
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
A total of 1,411 people have been confirmed dead and over 2,500 injured after the monster earthquake struck Friday sending destructive waves barrelling into Sul...
Dozens of Moroccan migrants rescued at sea
Oct 03, 2018 (AFP)
The migrants were saved from their partially-inflated rubber dinghy, which was struggling in "unfavourable meteorological conditions", Morocco's military said i...
Indonesia clamps down on looting as quake-tsunami toll tops 1,200
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
There were reports of officers firing warning shots and tear gas to ward off people ransacking shops in Palu, a coastal city ravaged by a 7.5-magnitude quake an...
Quake-hit Indonesia buries dead in mass grave
Oct 01, 2018 (AFP)
Indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and Jakarta had been keen to show it could deal with a catastrophe that has killed at least 844 people, according...
Morocco navy fires on migrant boat, one dead: local officials
Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)
The patrol was "forced" to open fire on a speedboat driven by a Spaniard who "refused to obey" orders in waters off the Moroccan locality of M'diq-Fnideq, the a...
Rohingya crisis: UN has 'no right to interfere' says Myanmar army chief
Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)
The defiant response is the army chief's first public reaction since a UN fact-finding mission urged the Security Council to refer Myanmar's top military brass ...
Lebanon navy rescues dozens from sinking Cyprus-bound boat
Sep 22, 2018 (AFP)
The military said in a statement it responded early Saturday to a sinking boat with at least 39 Syrian nationals on board "who were heading to Cyprus via an ill...
Toll jumps to 22 in Philippine monsoon landslide
Sep 21, 2018 (AFP)
Dozens were still missing after part of a massive hillside collapsed Thursday on several rural communities near Naga on the tourist island of Cebu. The rescue e...
Trump vows '100 percent' support for storm-battered Carolinas
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
"Washington is with you. Trump is with you," the president said during a briefing at emergency operations headquarters in Conway, South Carolina. Trump began hi...
After the storm: hardship endures for Puerto Ricans on US mainland
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
A year on, Joannelly Cruz and her mother Gloria Martinez are in a homeless shelter, part of a generation of Puerto Ricans struggling to rebuild shattered lives ...
Puerto Ricans turn to life-saving self-help in Maria's aftermath
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
In the dark weeks that followed they also discovered something precious: a sense of fellowship and belonging that today brightens places like Mariana, a neighbo...
Philippine miners dig for their own in typhoon landslide
Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)
Searchers have already pulled over a dozen corpses from the mud and debris in the mining town of Itogon, and up to 40 more people could be entombed -- with very...
Bedraggled, displaced long to return home; death toll at 23 in Carolinas
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
"Everybody wants to go home," said Dianna van Horne, a Red Cross worker helping some of the hundreds of thousands of Americans driven to this shelter near the s...
Facing hurricane floodwaters, US town takes lessons from the past
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
Waters in this tributary of the Neuse River are now dangerously close to the small bridge providing access to the tranquil, rural village of Grifton, population...
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