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Harvey damage estimated at $42 bn, among most costly US storms
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
Estimates for total economic costs and damage shot up overnight to $42 billion from $30 billion, as flooding began to spread to Louisiana and flood control meas...
Harvey versus Katrina: a world of differences
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
But while the monster storm's damage is projected to run into the billions, the death toll is so far relatively low: three confirmed fatalities, with another si...
Houston races to rescue flood victims before storm's return
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump promised that the federal government would be on hand to help Texas along the "long and difficult road to recovery" from the historic ...
Feuding US Congress to debate storm Harvey recovery funds
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
Record rainfall has left vast swaths of coastal Texas and the country's fourth-largest city of Houston underwater. Flooding has damaged or destroyed thousands o...
Trump on floods: 'There's never been anything like it'
Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)
"It's the biggest ever, they are saying it is the biggest, it's historic," Trump said, addressing a White House press conference a day before he travels to the ...
The losses that come after the earthquake: Devastating and costly
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
A new study takes a different approach to generate a more complete picture. The study looks at the devastation resulting from secondary disasters, such as tsuna...
Two dead, 25 missing in China landslide
Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)
Rescuers pulled six people out of the rubble, including the two who died, in a township in Bijie city in Guizhou province, authorities said in a statement on th...
Eight killed in landslide at Burkina gold mine
Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)
The accident happened on Saturday at Nagrire, "leaving eight people dead and five slightly injured," said Bernard Bouda, mayor of nearby Gogo commune, who trave...
Searches resume for 8 missing in Swiss Alps landslide
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
The massive search and rescue operation, involving more than 100 emergency workers equipped with infrared cameras and mobile phone detectors, helicopters and re...
Italy's deadly flirtation with illegal building
Aug 23, 2017 (AFP)
The tremor that shook the island of Ischia on Monday, toppling houses and killing two women, has sparked much soul-searching in a country with a weakness for ru...
Eight killed in Guinea in rubbish dump landslide
Aug 22, 2017 (AFP)
Five bodies, including those of two children, were taken to a morgue in Conakry, senior police official Boubacar Kasse said. An AFP reporter on the scene later ...
Fukushima reactor 'ice wall' nearly finished
Aug 22, 2017 (AFP)
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) began pumping coolant into the remaining seven metres (23 feet) of its 1.5-kilometre underground wall which encircles the four reac...
In devastated S.Leone, ghosts of pupils haunt ruined school
Aug 22, 2017 (AFP)
"This girl has died," she says through the tears. "This one also has died. She was very clever." The death toll from last week's mudslide and flooding in Sierra...
Myanmar man faces jail for speaking about child soldier past
Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)
Aung Ko Htwe, 26, was arrested on Friday, shortly after he spoke to Radio Free Asia's Burmese Service recalling how he was abducted and forced into the military...
Brazilian army, police raid violent Rio favelas
Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)
In the third such operation in just over two weeks, about 5,000 marines, army soldiers, air force personnel, police and agents from the elite federal intelligen...
Death toll in DR Congo landslide climbs to 140
Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)
"We estimate that there at least a hundred bodies buried underneath the rumble of large rocks that fell on the 48 destroyed homes," the deputy governor of Ituri...
Low-cost prostheses offer Indian amputees a second chance
Aug 20, 2017 (AFP)
A year later, the 22-year-old is preparing to walk again with the aide of a "Jaipur Foot" -- a no-frills prosthetic made locally. These prosthetics allow ampute...
'It could have been me': S.Leone struggles to recover from disaster
Aug 20, 2017 (AFP)
"I just close my eyes and imagine, I say, 'It could have been me'," says Angela Johnson, one of about 50 parishioners at St Paul's Catholic Church in Regent, th...
Mass burials begin for 400 Sierra Leone flood victims
Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)
The disaster began on Monday when heavy rains hit the city and the partial collapse of a hillside triggered mudslides, engulfing homes and wreaking destruction....
Libyan marine rescue zone aims to 'organise' NGOs: navy
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
The navy last week ordered unauthorised foreign vessels to stay out of Libya's coastal zone, a measure it said targeted NGOs carrying out search and rescue miss...
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