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Sierra Leone mourns 100 children among dead in massive flooding
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
With 600 people still missing in Freetown, President Ernest Bai Koroma described the humanitarian challenge ahead as "overwhelming". He said flags would fly at ...
Urban flooding on the rise, as countryside dries up
Aug 14, 2017 (UPI)
In an effort to identify links between rising global temperatures and river flow patterns, scientists at the University of New South Wales surveyed flow rate an...
Hunter fells elephant that killed 15 in India
Aug 12, 2017 (AFP)
Nawab Shafat Ali Khan told AFP he shot the elephant late Friday just hours after being called in by authorities. Saturday was World Elephant Day. Khan said he s...
Shoot-to-kill: India hunts serial killer elephant
Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)
The government has turned to sharpshooter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan ahead of World Elephant Day on Saturday to hunt the animal who crushed four victims in the easte...
Libya navy bars foreign ships from migrant 'search and rescue' zone
Aug 10, 2017 (AFP)
Six years since a revolution that toppled longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi, Libya has become a key departure point for migrants risking their lives to cross the...
Canada military sets up tents at US border for Haitian refugees
Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)
The modular tents being erected in the town of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Montreal, are equipped with lighting and heating equi...
Brazil troops storm Rio slums to catch gang leaders
Aug 06, 2017 (AFP)
Five favelas were targeted by around 1,300 police and 3,600 troops in a sweep starting at 4 am (0700 GMT), the Rio state security service said in a statement. T...
Italy parliament approves Libya naval mission
Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)
Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said Italy would provide technical support without infringing on the crisis-hit country's sovereignty but would not take part i...
Elephants, tigers kill one human a day in India
Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)
But man is in turn killing a leopard a day as the man-animal tussle for space reaches new heights. India has lost vast swathes of forests to urbanisation in rec...
Tech advances will lead to MH370 discovery - Malaysia Airlines
Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)
No trace of the Boeing 777, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, was found during a lengthy deep sea hunt in the southern Indian Ocean off ...
New phase change mechanism could lead to new class of chemical vapor sensors
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
The team validated optical and electronic evidence of the phase transition and how the behavior can be used to create an entirely new class of chemical vapor se...
Smart sensors could save lives
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
Existing early warning systems rely on satellite monitoring, watch towers or expensive fixed sensors. The system, developed by a team led by Associate Professor...
Robot finds possible melted fuel inside Fukushima reactor
Jul 23, 2017 (AFP)
Large amounts of the solidified lumps and deposit were spotted for the first time by the robot on the floor of the primary containment vessel underneath the cor...
Cheap 3D printed prosthetics could be game changer for Nepal
Jul 21, 2017 (AFP)
Once a farmer, Ram lost his hands and toes within a few years of contracting leprosy, forcing the father-of-three to turn to begging in a desperate bid to feed ...
Separated by war, Iraqi children wait for parents
Jul 18, 2017 (AFP)
"I miss my family, nine months is too long," said the teenager, among hundreds of youngsters separated from their parents because of IS and the months-long batt...
Haiti's army reborn 20 years after it was demobilized
Jul 18, 2017 (AFP)
After decades marked by coups and military interference in politics, Haiti demobilized its army in 1995, long before these potential recruits were born. But now...
The last survivors on Earth
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
Although much attention has been given to the cataclysmic impact that an astrophysical event would have on human life, very little has been published around wha...
West Mosul residents start mammoth task of rebuilding
Jul 13, 2017 (AFP)
"Here, a car bomb exploded. Over there, a rocket hit the building," says Nejmawi, a 29-year-old car battery and tyre salesman dressed in a brown robe. The white...
Civilian deaths soar in Iraq, Syria: monitoring group
Jul 12, 2017 (AFP)
Airwars -- a London-based collective of journalists and researchers that uses social media, eyewitness reports and other sources to compile its data -- said the...
In IS-held Raqa, parched civilians risk lives for water
Jul 08, 2017 (AFP)
The northern city has been without steady running water for several weeks after damage to pipelines by heavy bombardment, including suspected strikes by the US-...
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