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SES is enabling disaster response and connecting affected communities

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

SES offers a broad range of solutions to support humanitarian and disaster relief efforts across the globe. Some of them were showcased during the Humanitarian ...

HRW calls on Iraqis to avoid ad hoc mass grave exhumations

Mar 22, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqis should not carry out hurried or ad hoc exhumations of mass graves left by jihadists, as this makes identifying victims more difficult, Human Rights Watch...

Closures along iconic California highway hit tourism

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

A series of storms that pounded California this winter have forced the shutdown of the state's iconic coastal highway in several areas, spelling economic disast...

Face recognition flushes out China's toilet paper crooks

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

A years-long crime spree by Chinese toilet paper thieves may have reached the end of its roll after park officials in southern Beijing installed facial recognit...

Libya rescues 420 migrants off its coast: navy

Mar 20, 2017 (AFP)

Libya has in two days rescued 420 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, a navy spokesman said Monday, but three were found dead and 30 reported ...

Video game study suggests people will remain calm as the world ends

Mar 20, 2017 (UPI)

Many assume the world will end in chaos, a complete breakdown of the social order. The results of a new video game study suggest otherwise. Participants in a ro...

Mosul families go against the tide to return home

Mar 19, 2017 (AFP)

Tens of thousands have flowed out of war-wracked Mosul in recent weeks, but Samir Hamid and 33 family members have decided to go against the tide to return home...

Death carts carry family ripped apart by Mosul campaign

Mar 18, 2017 (AFP)

As a convoy of wooden carts descends a hill outside Iraq's war-torn second city of Mosul, a child's foot, greyed with dust, pokes out from under brightly colour...

Do US self-defense laws trigger more crime?

Mar 18, 2017 (AFP)

When Curtis Reeves shot to death a fellow movie spectator who threw popcorn at him, the police veteran reignited a heated debate in the United States over when ...

U.S. Coast Guard avoids budget cuts

Mar 17, 2017 (UPI)

The U.S. Coast Guard will not see the budget cuts the Trump administration planned for the branch after a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers blocked the move. Wh...

Japan court rules government liable for Fukushima disaster

Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)

A Japanese court on Friday ruled for the first time that the government bears responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and ordered it and the plan...

Ai Weiwei slams 'shameful' politicians ignoring refugees

Mar 16, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Thursday slammed "shameful" politicians who ignore refugees as he launched a giant art installation centered on their fate...

Nepal police demolish camp for earthquake displaced

Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)

Nepal police Tuesday demolished the largest remaining settlement of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that struck nearly two years ago, a move that will...

After fleeing homes, Iraqis near Mosul wait for tents

Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)

A sea of tents stretches to the horizon at a camp for displaced near Mosul but Ahmed Hassan says he and 17 relatives have to sleep outside because there is no r...

Priceless remains lie in ruins at Mosul museum

Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)

It was once home to priceless archaeological treasures, but these days you get into Mosul museum in Iraq's second city via a gaping hole in the basement. In the...

Giant Ai Weiwei refugee installation to go on display in Prague

Mar 10, 2017 (AFP)

Refugees are the focus of the biggest installation of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei which goes on display next week at the National Gallery in Prague. Call...

For Japan's nuclear refugees, insults and rejection

Mar 10, 2017 (AFP)

Satsuki Sekine's home was destroyed in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster and her family fled in the nuclear panic that followed. But crueller still were the insults...

Japan 'piggyback' official steps down

Mar 10, 2017 (AFP)

A senior Japanese politician criticised last year for being carried over flood waters while inspecting deadly typhoon damage was out of a job Friday after jokin...

Tired but happy, Iraqis finally escape Mosul jihadists

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

Civilians rush down a hillside on the outskirts of Mosul to waiting Iraqi forces, tired but happy after finally being able to flee the clutches of the Islamic S...

Jihadist tunnels save Assyrian winged bulls of Mosul

Mar 07, 2017 (AFP)

Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls dating from the Assyrian empire found intact...