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Italy PM vows to rebuild quake region
Nov 01, 2016 (AFP)
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday vowed to rebuild the entire region flattened by Sunday's earthquake as the country's main farming union called fo...
Louvre could house treasures from Iraq, Syria: Hollande
Nov 01, 2016 (AFP)
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday said the Louvre could house threatened treasures from Iraq, Syria and other war-torn countries at a secure site in...
Behind front lines, Iraq's devout food delivery army
Oct 29, 2016 (AFP)
Abu Ahmed drove all night and half-way across Iraq to bring the meat stew and rice in the back of his pickup truck to fighters on the Mosul front lines. Seven h...
What happens when people are treated like pollution
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
In cities where homeless persons are viewed as an "environmental contaminant"--a form of pollution, efforts to purge the homeless from the area tend to push the...
Fire at Iraq sulphur plant out: officials
Oct 27, 2016 (AFP)
A fire lit by the Islamic State group at a sulphur plant south of the Iraqi city of Mosul was brought fully under control on Thursday, officials said. The fire ...
Colombia landslide kills at least six
Oct 26, 2016 (AFP)
A landslide piled into one of Colombia's busiest highways Wednesday, killing at least six people and leaving an "undetermined" number missing and feared buried,...
'Inhumane' conditions at Haiti hurricane shelters: UN expert
Oct 25, 2016 (AFP)
Haitians displaced by Hurricane Matthew are living in "inhumane" conditions in government-run shelters, a United Nations expert said Tuesday. The powerful storm...
Radioactive leak at Norway nuclear reactor
Oct 25, 2016 (AFP)
A nuclear research reactor in Norway suffered a minor radiation leak that is not believed to pose a threat to public health or the environment, Norwegian author...
Canada parliament votes to take in Yazidi refugees
Oct 25, 2016 (AFP)
Canada's parliament adopted Tuesday an opposition motion to resettle Yazidi refugees within four months, while declaring IS group's persecution of Yazidis near ...
Haiti storm victims, in makeshift camps, bemoan aid chaos
Oct 24, 2016 (AFP)
Rickety structures made of sheet metal and scrap wood are clustered along the road to the Haitian city of Jeremie, which still hasn't seen any aid nearly three ...
On Syria border, Mosul refugees trapped under IS fire
Oct 24, 2016 (AFP)
They have escaped the Islamic State group stronghold of Mosul but hundreds of Iraqis seeking refuge in neighbouring war-torn Syria are now trapped on the border...
On road to Mosul, Kurd doctors fear being overwhelmed
Oct 23, 2016 (AFP)
At a field hospital out in the open, a few kilometres (miles) from newly carved front lines in northern Iraq, Kurdish doctors and foreign soldiers mill around a...
Risk analysis for common ground on climate loss and damage
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
The Paris Agreement included groundbreaking text on the need for a mechanism to help identify risks beyond adaptation and support the victims of climate-related...
Haiti hurricane victims face choice: leave or rebuild
Oct 20, 2016 (AFP)
The beach was like paradise. Then Hurricane Matthew turned it into a cemetery of coconut palm trees, with not a house left intact. Facing such devastation, the ...
Impact of the Fukushima accident on marine life, five years later
Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)
Five years ago, the largest single release of human-made radioactive discharge to the marine environment resulted from an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nucl...
Haiti hurricane victims lose hope of receiving aid
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
It's been two weeks since Hurricane Matthew devastated southern Haiti, but large parts of the impoverished country's third-largest city of Les Cayes remain a wa...
Power impact from Matthew nowhere near Hurricane Sandy
Oct 17, 2016 (UPI)
Though some states are still coping with flooding from Hurricane Matthew, data from the Energy Department finds outages were far less than from Hurricane Sandy....
Climate change could push 122 mn into extreme poverty: UN
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
Climate change could sink up to 122 million more people into extreme poverty by 2030, mostly in South Asia and Africa, where small farmers would see their outpu...
UN worried over attacks on aid convoys in hurricane-hit Haiti
Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)
The United Nations is concerned at the rise in looting and attacks targeting emergency aid deliveries in hurricane-ravaged Haiti, a UN official told AFP on Sund...
UN chief warns aid 'fatigue' in hurricane-hit Haiti; Elections delayed
Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced distress Saturday at the "absolute devastation" caused by a deadly hurricane in Haiti, and disappointment at scant emerg...
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