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As homelands devastated, Indonesian tribe turns to Islam
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
"Thank God, the government now pays attention to us; before our conversion they didn't care," says Yusuf, the Islamic name he has adopted. Yusuf is a member of ...
Seven killed, dozens hurt in China kindergarten blast
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
The explosion happened at the school's gates, police in the city of Xuzhou said in a statement. Images circulating online showed that the force of the blast tor...
Rescuers battle to reach victims of deadly Bangladesh landslides
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
Villagers in some of the worst-hit areas used shovels to try to dig bodies out of the mud that engulfed their settlements as they slept. Authorities say hundred...
Hundreds sick in food poisoning at Mosul displaced camp
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
Health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr had told AFP that there were 752 cases of food poisoning and two deaths, a woman and child, at the Hasansham camp. And UN...
Flower power: gardening as therapy in Poland
Jun 12, 2017 (AFP)
Slowly a smile lights up her face, erasing her previous stony expression -- she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which often renders her emotionless. The sud...
Philippine war refugees facing deadly health risks
Jun 09, 2017 (AFP)
The onset of the rainy season could worsen the situation, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned as it said it had already observed a spike ...
Art seeks to heal wounds in divided Cyprus
Jun 09, 2017 (AFP)
"When I look (at) this young soldier, I feel so upset, because I am a mother," says the elegant 73-year-old, her eyes outlined with black eye liner. "In all the...
Teen killed in Venezuela as military commander urges troops not to hurt protesters
Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)
The warning by General Vladimir Padrino Lopez, who is also Maduro's defense minister, came after more than two months of violent clashes between protesters and ...
Scorpions the new threat for displaced Mosul civilians
Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)
In Khazir camp, one of the largest for civilians displaced by the battle against the Islamic State group in Mosul, the searing Iraqi summer has arrived and rept...
Japan workers exposed to dangerous radiation in lab
Jun 07, 2017 (AFP)
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said the workers were undergoing emergency medical treatment after the accident Tuesday at its Oarai Research and Development Cen...
GMV to supply Copernicus services in support to EU external action
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
This service aims at providing geospatial information for remote, hard-to- access areas posing a high security risk, also helping non-EU countries to head off g...
Sri Lanka hails record military deployment as toll hits 213
Jun 05, 2017 (AFP)
Nearly 10,000 troops and paramilitary forces reinforced tens of thousands of police in the relief effort following the May 26 deluge, Disaster Management minist...
Sri Lanka targets unauthorised builders after monsoon deaths
Jun 03, 2017 (AFP)
The urban development ministry said they will press criminal charges against those illegally occupying marshlands earmarked to absorb flood waters and structure...
484 civilians killed in US-led fight against IS: Pentagon
Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)
The Operation Inherent Resolve coalition added 132 civilians to the total in its April report, including 105 who died when a US aircraft dropped a bomb on an IS...
European Reassurance Initiative requests billion-dollar budget increase
Jun 02, 2017 (UPI)
Air Force Maj Gen. David Allvin, director of U.S. European Command of strategy, plans, and policy, said that the budget increase is meant to reinforce readiness...
Study finds Congo's miners often resort to hunting wildlife for food
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The majority of individuals surveyed at mining camps during the 3-month study period said they hunted mostly out of necessity in the absence of any alternative ...
Refugees face 'acute crisis' in cyclone-hit Bangladesh
May 31, 2017 (AFP)
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya live in the overcrowded camps in Cox's Bazar on the southeast coast after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar. Cyclone Mo...
Targeted conservation could protect more of Earth's biodiversity
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
"Biodiversity conservation has mostly focused on species, but some species may offer much more critical or unique functions or evolutionary heritage than others...
Disaster risk management: Science helps save lives
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
The report 'Science for Disaster Risk Management 2017: knowing more and losing less' is the flagship product of the European Commission's Disaster Risk Manageme...
Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Published by researchers from Princeton University and the Union of Concerned Scientists, the article argues that NRC inaction leaves the public at high risk fr...
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