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Nine dead including children as migrant boat sinks off Turkey: report

Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)

Four people were rescued by the Turkish coast guard after the boat destined for Greece and carrying mostly Iraqi migrants sank off the Turkish holiday resort to...

Disaster relief: How can AI improve humanitarian assistance?

Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)

The Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Workshop - co-hosted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Carnegie...

Saudi hackathon seeks high-tech fixes to hajj calamities

Aug 05, 2018 (AFP)

In a cavernous hall in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, thousands of software professionals and students competed in the kingdom's first-ever hackathon, a coding fes...

Made in Fukushima: Japan farmers struggle to win trust

Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)

Seven years after the March 2011 nuclear disaster caused by a devastating tsunami, rigorous testing shows no radioactive threat from Fukushima's produce, offici...

Two jailed for rigging Hong Kong-China bridge tests

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

Billed as the world's longest sea bridge, the project has been touted as an engineering wonder by its supporters but slammed as a "white elephant" by its critic...

That's cold: Japan tech blasts snoozing workers with AC

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

Air conditioning manufacturer Daikin and electronics giant NEC said Thursday they have begun trialling the system, which monitors the movement of the employee's...

Empathetic, calm dogs try to rescue owners in distress, study finds

Jul 24, 2018 (UPI)

To better understand how dogs relate and react to humans in distress, scientists observed the responses of dogs to different stimuli and scenarios. In one scena...

Developing Microrobotics for Disaster Recovery and High-Risk Environments

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

"Whether in a natural disaster scenario, a search and rescue mission, a hazardous environment, or other critical relief situation, robots have the potential to ...

Spanish rescue ship heads home after dramatic rescue

Jul 18, 2018 (AFP)

Proactiva Open Arms, whose two ships sail back and forth in the Mediterranean to rescue migrants in distress, said it had decided to return a day after saving t...

In storm-hit Barbuda, China fills void left by Western 'neglect'

Jul 15, 2018 (AFP)

The event celebrated a Chinese-funded program to replace roofs ripped from more than 300 homes by the powerful storm that damaged or destroyed nearly every buil...

Japan firms used foreign trainees at Fukushima cleanup

Jul 13, 2018 (AFP)

The discovery is likely to revive criticism of the foreign trainee programme, which has been accused of placing workers in substandard conditions and jobs that ...

'Jet engine' sound, tremors send Afghan villagers fleeing deadly landslide

Jul 12, 2018 (AFP)

At least 10 people were killed when the landslide struck several villages in Panjshir, a mountainous province north of Kabul, in the early hours of Thursday, de...

Thai boys were sedated and stretchered from cave in dramatic rescue

Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)

The video of the rescue, which ended on Tuesday when the final four boys and their 25-year-old coach emerged from the cave, was released by authorities who had ...

Nepal war crime laws risk sparing worst offenders: rights groups

Jul 08, 2018 (AFP)

The latest draft legislation to address wartime abuses still makes it difficult to prosecute serious crimes, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission...

Relatives identify victims of deadly Thai tourist boat sinking

Jul 08, 2018 (AFP)

Recovery divers have pulled 42 bodies from the sea off the resort island of Phuket, but authorities have said 14 other passengers remain unaccounted for. The Ph...

21 dead, many more bodies seen inside sunken Thai tourist boat

Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)

The dead were found drifting face down in the water, still wearing life jackets, several kilometres (miles) from where the Phoenix sank after being hit by five-...

Stateless teen praised as 'gem' in Thai cave ordeal

Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)

Images of the wide-eyed teen were beamed around the world when he was discovered alive with the rest of his young football team deep inside the Tham Luang cave....

Thai boys need hope, exercise to survive cave ordeal: experts

Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)

But the group's survival may ultimately hinge on mental rather than physical toughness -- not losing hope while rescuers figure out how to free them from the da...

Thailand cave rescue: What now for the boys?

Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)

Here are a few ways the hungry and weak boys could get out, none easy options. Could they dive out? In theory yes: but it is an extremely difficult task. Cave d...

Libyan navy says 63 missing in new Mediterranean shipwreck

Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)

The group are feared drowned after the inflatable boat they were on sank, a spokesman for Libya's navy General Ayoub Kacem told AFP, citing eyewitness accounts ...