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EU ministers pledge steps to tackle migrant flood
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
Ministers from across the bloc gathered in the Estonian capital Tallinn after Italy, which has accepted around 85,000 of the 100,000 people who have arrived thi...
Holiday weekend leaves more than 100 gunfire victims in Chicago
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
The youngest of the victims was just 13 years old and the eldest 60, the newspaper said, noting that the shootings were concentrated in the south and west of th...
Ex-bosses stand trial over 2011 Fukushima crisis in Japan
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
Ex-Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 77, and former vice presidents Sakae Muto, 66, and Ichiro Takekuro, 71, all pleaded not guilty to ...
Ex-bosses to go on trial over Fukushima disaster
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
The hearing on Friday comes more than a year after ex-Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 77, and former vice presidents Sakae Muto, 66, ...
Rising seas could result in 2 billion refugees by 2100
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
"We're going to have more people on less land and sooner that we think," said lead author Charles Geisler, professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornel...
China lowers number of missing in landslide to 73
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
The confirmed number of dead remained at 10 after heavy rain brought down the side of a mountain on to Xinmo village in Sichuan province on Saturday. But an add...
New landslide hits China disaster area
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
No one was injured in the new and smaller avalanche as the area where Xinmo village once stood had been cordoned off following warnings on Monday, Xinhua news a...
Twitter algorithm can identify riots before police reports
Jun 26, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers tested their model using social media data from the 2011 riots in London. Their predictive algorithm was able to identify specific instances of vand...
Ex-NY mayor Bloomberg to grant $200 mln to US cities
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
Under its "American Cities Initiative," Bloomberg Philanthropies will invest the money over the the next three years in a bid to "incentivize and support the in...
Hopes dim in search for 93 missing in China landslide
Jun 25, 2017 (AFP)
At least 10 people have been confirmed dead, a day after the avalanche of rocks buried 62 homes in Xinmo, a once-picturesque mountain village nestled by a river...
Hopes dim in search for 118 buried by China landslide
Jun 25, 2017 (AFP)
Officials have pulled 15 bodies from the avalanche of rocks that crashed into 62 homes in Xinmo, a once picturesque mountain village nestled by a river in Sichu...
Over 140 people feared buried in China landslide
Jun 24, 2017 (AFP)
A couple and a baby were rescued and taken to hospital after 46 homes in the village of Xinmo were swallowed by huge boulders when the side of a mountain collap...
Kurdish designers bring fight with IS to Paris catwalk
Jun 23, 2017 (AFP)
Would they be fighting against Islamic State like their cousins back in Kirkuk? What is almost certain they would not be showing their first collection at Paris...
FLIR awarded $17.9 million contract for Coast Guard surveillance systems
Jun 21, 2017 (UPI)
The contract includes parts, control units, installation, software, engineering and logistical support for the systems. 19 FLIRs will be procured for the Coast ...
Portugal forest fire kills 24, injures 20
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
Around 500 firefighters and 160 vehicles were dispatched to tackle the blaze, which broke out in the afternoon in the municipality of Pedrogao Grande before spr...
Iraqis hunt for their cars in devastated post-IS Mosul
Jun 17, 2017 (AFP)
Vehicles of all shapes and colours -- in varying condition -- fill the streets of the northern city as Iraqi forces battle to retake its last western districts ...
China says kindergarten blast was bomb, suspect dead
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
The public security ministry said in a statement that the suspect was a 22-year-old man with health problems who rented a room near the kindergarten in Fengxian...
Amazon's Bezos asks for philanthropic ideas, gets plenty
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
Bezos, whose estimated $72 billion net worth makes him the third richest person in the world according to Forbes magazine, sent out a "request for ideas" in a t...
China says bomber died in kindergarten blast
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
The public security ministry said in a statement that the suspect was a man with health problems who rented a room near the school in Fengxian, where Thursday's...
Europe's dilemma - how to deal with returning jihadists
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
Of the around 27,000 foreign fighters believed to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to take up arms alongside extremist groups such as the Islamic State, around ...
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