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Remote Hong Kong island holds nuclear emergency drills
Dec 20, 2017 (AFP)
The drill took place on sparsely-populated Tung Ping Chau, a remote island much closer to the mainland than the rest of Hong Kong and around 20 kilometres away ...
Hurricanes, heat waves, fires ravaged planet in 2017
Dec 20, 2017 (AFP)
It was also the year the world's second largest polluter, the United States, turned its back on the 196-nation Paris climate deal meant to limit global warming ...
Major economic conference in China to tackle risk, pollution
Dec 18, 2017 (AFP)
The annual Central Economic Work Conference gives leaders the opportunity to review past policy and to plan for 2018. The pursuit of high growth at all costs ma...
Puerto Rico governor orders review of hurricane deaths
Dec 18, 2017 (AFP)
"This is about more than numbers. These are lives: real people, leaving behind loved ones and families," Governor Ricardo Rossello said in a statement. The cate...
France takes in first refugees screened in Africa
Dec 18, 2017 (AFP)
While it has drawn little public outcry in France, the policy faces stiff opposition from the left and from charities that shelter migrants, 22 of which called ...
Storm-hit Puerto Rico starving for tourists
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
Today, things are so dire he's considering selling water to motorists stopped at red lights. "Now we are trying to survive," the 46-year-old tour guide said. It...
New mapping technique can help fight extreme poverty
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
While effective, assembling this information is costly and time-consuming, and it often lacks detail that aid organizations and governments need in order to bes...
Leaders needed to fix global 'mess', says Kofi Annan
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
"Honestly speaking, we are in a mess," Annan told AFP in an interview ahead of Tuesday's climate talks in Paris. "In the past when we went through this sort of ...
World leaders in Paris seek cash for climate crunc
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
Without trillions of dollars invested in clean energy technology, the Paris Agreement's goal to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahre...
Unearthing the underground effects of earthquakes and volcanoes
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
Developing a clearer picture of changes in subsurface conditions, together with continuous monitoring, could provide life-saving information in advance of futur...
In helping earthquake victims, life lessons for Haiti youth
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
Unable to afford surgery for glaucoma, Saint-Felix is blind and prevented from breeding livestock. The earthquake in 2010 turned his life upside down: his home ...
US House approves easing of interstate rules on concealed guns
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
The move came two months after the worst mass shooting in modern US history, when a gunman who had taken a vast arsenal into a Las Vegas hotel fired down on con...
China says UN resolutions 'cannot solve' Rohingya crisis
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
Beijing voted against a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council that said abuses in Myanmar indicated "the very likely commission of crimes against humanity"....
Identifying optimal adaptation of buildings threatened by hurricanes, climate change
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
According to Dan M. Frangopol, the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University and You Dong, Assistant Professo...
Pole to pole, linemen hard at work restoring power in Puerto Rico
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
They've been working 12-hour shifts, six days a week since Hurricane Maria hit the island on September 20, shredding the US commonwealth's rickety power grid. "...
UN urges 'humanitarian pause' for Yemen
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
As the UN Security Council prepared to discuss Yemen on Tuesday, several international aid agencies chimed in to condemn a surge in violence in the war-torn cou...
Smoke prompts evacuation of 200 at French nuclear site
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
The workers were evacuated "as a precaution", authorities in the Manche region said in a statement, adding that firefighters deployed to the Flamanville site on...
Big changes for Florida with mass Puerto Rican immigration
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
Sanchez left the island with three suitcases, her small dog -- and no plans to return. As her flight departed the capital San Juan, she glanced out the window a...
Despite Greek shelter, Yazidis struggle to integrate
Dec 02, 2017 (AFP)
Having run the gauntlet of invasion, combat, killings and enslavement by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, the members of this religious minority have found temp...
Southern Chile iceberg splits from glacier, threatens navigation
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
An iceberg measuring some 350 by 380 meters (1,150 by 1,250 feet) broke from the Grey glacier in far southern Chile in late November. The size of the break surp...
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