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Some Texans head home to clean up, others still in peril
Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)
One week after Harvey blasted into southeast Texas as a Category Four hurricane, rescuers were still searching by air and by boat for people trapped in flooded ...
Angels in mega trucks: drivers join rescue in storm-hit Texas
Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)
From his unusually high perch above the road, the 40-year-old crane operator drove his truck, named Old Habits, deep into Texas floodwaters Friday -- part of an...
Anxious Houston storm victims come home, dig out
Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)
"It smelled like a pig pen," she told AFP Saturday, hours after she cracked open her front door, like thousands of fellow Texans, to face the very personal effe...
Ai Weiwei showcases refugee epic in Venice
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
Finally they're on and he wriggles free to put the new footwear to good use: kicking his siblings and friends on the shins. He might be a refugee, detained in a...
Fresh landslides in Swiss Alps force more evacuations
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
Two landslides within hours caused no injuries but destroyed houses in several villages and cut access roads into the Bregaglia valley, near the Italian border....
Chemicals left at flooded Texas plant for safety
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
Trying to move compounds out of the plant northeast of Houston as the storm was bearing down on the area would have been too risky, said Daryl Roberts, a senior...
Greg Abbott, the arch-conservative leading the Harvey response
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
Residents and officials have hailed his leadership throughout the crisis, with Democrats casting aside their differences to work together against one of the wor...
Texas chemical plant owners 'fully expect' more fires
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
Richard Rennard, a senior executive with French group Arkema, encouraged anyone who has been exposed to the smoke, which irritates the eyes and lungs, to seek m...
Toll in Texas mounts as Harvey menaces further east
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
While clouds parted at last in America's fourth-largest city, rural areas of Texas were drenched as Harvey headed eastwards, with the city of Port Arthur especi...
After Harvey, misery piles on for Texas plant evacuees
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
Two days on, some among the area's poorer residents are still living in an emergency shelter set up in the center of Crosby, around five miles (eight kilometers...
Texas flood toll mounts amid chemical blast fears
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
While clouds parted in America's fourth-largest city, bringing a welcome respite after the storm turned roads into rivers, rural areas of Texas were drenched as...
Divided US embraces floods as chance to pull together
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
Since unleashing on Friday night, monster storm Harvey has managed to not only halt normal life in Texas but also silence much of the rancor that has pervaded p...
'Katrina all over again:' New Orleans in solidarity with Houston
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
"This is beautiful. It's been overwhelming," said Father Tim Hedrick as a steady stream of parishioners and other residents of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish ...
Two landslides kill 30 in China
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
The death toll from a large landslide that struck a town in southwestern Guizhou province on Monday rose to 23 while a second landslide on Wednesday killed seve...
Guinea finds bodies of 19 'S.Leone landslide victims'
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
Some 500 people died and more than 800 were reported missing after the disaster that struck Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on August 13-14, when heavy rains sw...
Trump praises Texans on trip to Harvey disaster zone
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
Four days after Harvey slammed onshore as a Category Four hurricane, turning roads to rivers in America's fourth-largest city, emergency crews are still struggl...
No guns, no smoking: Storm shelter Texas-style
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
In this small town, a school cafeteria has been transformed into a clean, dry resting place for more than 400 people who may need it. Brisket with baked beans a...
Trump to visit storm-ravaged Texas as more rain threatens
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
But the US president and his wife Melania are not expected to visit Houston, America's fourth largest city where rescuers are scrambling to reach hundreds of st...
On Katrina anniversary, New Orleans braces for Harvey
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
As the storm churned over warm Gulf waters, meteorologists predicted that Harvey would make landfall for a second time late Tuesday or early Wednesday over Loui...
At least 15 dead in China landslide
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
At least 15 people were killed and eight were injured in Monday's disaster in a township in Bijie city in Guizhou province, according to a report from China Cen...
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