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Hurricane survivors swap Caribbean seas for English peas
Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)
When the Category Five storm destroyed the island's infrastructure last month, more than 700 students and staff at American University of the Caribbean School o...
Puerto Rico's hurricane-wracked environment faces long recovery
Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)
Hurricane Maria not only destroyed Puerto Rico's infrastructure, it also wreaked havoc on the environment, disrupting the island's entire ecosystem. And experts...
800 Yazidis refugees resettled in Canada: minister
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
Canada's parliament last year, with Iraqi activist Nadia Murad on hand, declared the persecution of Yazidis a genocide and said this country would take in up to...
Trump tells Puerto Rico to be 'proud' of low storm toll
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
The US president, alongside First Lady Melania Trump, visited the middle class suburb of Guaynabo, walking among trees and signs felled two weeks ago by Maria's...
Trump to request $29 bln for storm-hit Puerto Rico
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
According to a White House letter, Trump asked for a package that includes $12.77 billion in disaster relief and a $16 billion bailout to keep a critical flood ...
Fukushima operator gets first safety approval since 2011 disaster
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
The Nuclear Regulation Authority gave Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) preliminary approval to restart the two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, one of ...
Trump visits Puerto Rico to highlight storm response
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria thrashed through the verdant island, residents are still short of food and largely without access to power or portable wa...
Radioactive cesium leajing into ocean 60 miles from Fukushima
Oct 03, 2017 (UPI)
A team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and Japan's Kanazawa University found unusually high levels of radioactive ...
NASA Damage Map Aids Puerto Rico Hurricane Response
Oct 02, 2017 (JPL)
To assist in disaster response efforts, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, both in Pasadena, California, obtained and used before-and-a...
Machete, origami and reading: life in San Juan a week after Maria
Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)
Now that some streets have been cleared of branches and rubble Hurricane Maria left behind, middle class residents of Puerto Rico's capital San Juan's outskirts...
Fear of epidemic disaster as disease stalks Rohingya camps
Sep 30, 2017 (AFP)
"The pump works, but the water stinks, so we don't drink it," the Rohingya woman said in the squalid camp where her family of 11 has lived since fleeing Myanmar...
Signs of corruption emerge from rubble of Mexico quake
Sep 30, 2017 (AFP)
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed more than 350 people and left gruesome scenes of destruction in the capital, such as a primary school where 19 children were...
Mexican economy to bounce back fast from quake: analysts
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
The teeming city of 20 million people ground to an eerie halt after the September 19 quake, which killed more than 340 people across five states and the capital...
Trump lifts barriers to Puerto Rico hurricane aid
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
A week after the Category Four storm struck, the White House said Trump had made it easier for fuel and water supplies to arrive to the ravaged island of 3.4 mi...
Nobel's shining stars who lost their lustre
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
The Norwegian Nobel committee's announcement every October is usually followed by some protest and occasionally a heated debate. Rare are the laureates who are ...
Water from a rock: Puerto Ricans cope with hurricane aftermath
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
Talk about a cool trick. This is one of the ways desperate and resilient Puerto Ricans are coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Just about everything's...
'Action!' orders 87-year-old actress who survived Mexico's quake
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
The painful injuries she sustained while trapped for 32 hours before being pulled to safety have done nothing to dent her natural exuberance. "I'm alive and liv...
SES: emergency.lu Re-establishes Critical Connectivity in the Caribbean Following Hurricanes Irma and Maria
Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)
The connectivity provided on an SES satellite is used for broadband and voice communication, to ensure that emergency services and first responders can stay inf...
Trump defends Puerto Rico response; Irma death toll at 72 in Florida
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
Trump also said that he would travel to the US Virgin Islands, another American territory in the Caribbean that was slammed by a pair of powerful storms. "Both ...
Will a new Mexico arise from earthquake's rubble
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
The one that struck Mexico last week could also release energy of a different kind: a transformative new grassroots political and social movement. No sooner had...
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