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Death toll hits 290 as Colombia probes cause of mudslides
Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)
The number of people killed in southern Colombia's massive mudslides climbed to 290 on Wednesday, as officials investigated how the horrific disaster might have...
Ten Thai soldiers wanted over death of conscript
Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)
Thai police have accused ten soldiers of beating a 22-year-old army conscript to death in a military prison, as the army races to limit damage from the scandal ...
Why is South America being hit by deadly landslides?
Apr 04, 2017 (AFP)
It starts with torrential rain in the mountains. Then a wall of mud and boulders comes barreling down the slopes, sweeping away houses, cars and people. Like a ...
More than 270 dead in Colombia mudslides
Apr 04, 2017 (AFP)
The Colombian government on Monday declared a state of economic emergency in the town of Mocoa in southern Colombia, after mudslides left more than 270 people d...
254 dead in Colombia mudslides, including 43 children
Apr 03, 2017 (AFP)
Devastating mudslides in the Colombian town of Mocoa killed at least 254 people including 43 children, President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday, as survivors de...
Six months post-hurricane, hunger gnaws at southern Haiti
Apr 03, 2017 (AFP)
Crouching beside the makeshift shelter shared with his parents and five siblings, Fanfan Edouard slowly sharpens his machete. But there's no rush to cut firewoo...
Australia floods: 'I don't know what I am going to do'
Apr 02, 2017 (AFP)
People in North Maclean are used to floods. But few in the small farming community in eastern Australia can remember a deluge as bad as this one. Torrential rai...
Prince Charles embraces Italy quake survivors
Apr 02, 2017 (AFP)
Britain's Prince Charles hugged tearful survivors in the quake-hit Italian town of Amatrice on Sunday after seeing the "terrifying devastation" inflicted by las...
Toll from deadly Colombia mudslide hovers at 200
Apr 02, 2017 (AFP)
Colombia on Sunday mourned the deaths of an estimated 200 people in the mudslide-devastated town of Mocoa as rescuers searched for survivors in a sea of muck an...
At least two dead, 26 missing in Indonesia landslide
Apr 02, 2017 (AFP)
At least two people were killed and 26 were feared buried under heavy mud after a landslide struck Indonesia, the national disaster agency said Sunday. Nineteen...
Rush hour on Mosul's 'displacement highway'
Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)
On west Mosul's Baghdad street, thousands of displaced Iraqis flee the fighting with their meagre belongings but similar numbers walk in the other direction, he...
South Korea donates over 200 military vehicles to Cambodia
Mar 30, 2017 (UPI)
South Korea recently donated 222 military vehicles to the Cambodian armed forces as part of an effort to bolster the country's homeland security assets. Cambodi...
Military mobilises to help cyclone-ravaged Australian region
Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)
Towns remained cut off in northern Australia Wednesday after being pummelled by a powerful cyclone that washed battered yachts ashore and ripped roofs off house...
Birds hit by cars are, well, bird-brained
Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)
What's the difference between birds that get killed by cars, and those that don't? The dead ones tend to have smaller brains, scientists who performed 3,521 avi...
Rising flood insurance costs growing will New York City
Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)
Flood insurance is already difficult to afford for many homeowners in New York City, and the situation will only worsen as flood maps are revised to reflect cur...
Bangladesh to join India's South Asia Satellite initiative
Mar 27, 2017 (IANS)
Bangladesh has signed an agreement with India to formally join New Delhi's 'South Asia Satellite' initiative, through which the Indian Space Research Organizati...
Extreme space weather: Protecting our critical infrastructure
Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)
Extreme space weather has a global footprint and the potential to damage critical infrastructure on the ground and in space. A new report from the European Comm...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to build fences in New York
Mar 27, 2017 (AFP)
The Chinese activist artist Ai Weiwei will build dozens of fences in New York for an exhibition opening in October that focuses on walls that divide people and ...
In Iraq's Mosul, a school becomes a field hospital
Mar 26, 2017 (AFP)
Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied be...
Lowest bidders threaten Nepal's quake-hit heritage
Mar 24, 2017 (AFP)
Caretaker Deepak Shrestha padlocked shut the quake-ravaged remains of the Trailokya Mohan Narayan temple in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to keep out the contractor...
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