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Director of apocalyptic Sundance film lost home in LA fires
Jan 23, 2025 (AFP)
In a cruel example of life imitating art, Menon's indie zombie apocalypse flick "Didn't Die" is all about how survivors of loss and disaster find the strength t...
Trump orders 1,500 extra troops to US-Mexico border
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
Border security is a key priority for the president, who declared a national emergency at the US frontier with Mexico on his first day in office, and the additi...
How do we survive crises then and now
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
Resilience encompasses the strategies people employ to endure and recover from crises. Unlike a static trait inherent to specific individuals or societies, resi...
Indonesia rescuers search for survivors as landslide kills 19
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
Intense rainfall in a mountainous area near Pekalongan city in Central Java province sparked the landslide on Monday, collapsing bridges and burying cars and ho...
Insurance access for US homeowners with higher climate risks declines
Jan 16, 2025 (AFP)
Average insurance non-renewal rates were about 80 percent higher for consumers in high-climate-risk areas than for those in the lowest-risk ones, the report fou...
World leaders urge aid, war's end after Gaza deal
Jan 16, 2025 (AFP)
Here is a roundup of reactions from official statements, broadcast remarks and online messages. - UN: Urgent aid - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gute...
Survivors count the mental cost of Los Angeles fires
Jan 15, 2025 (AFP)
"It's just been the most heartbreaking thing I've ever seen in my life. Man, it's just like a war zone," the 39-year-old photographer told AFP, standing in the ...
Humanity has opened 'Pandora's box of ills,' UN chief warns
Jan 15, 2025 (AFP)
The UN chief was laying out his priorities in a speech to the General Assembly for the year ahead, at a time when the organization faces unprecedented crises an...
'Afraid to live here': urban Bolivia's death-defying homes
Jan 14, 2025 (AFP)
The landscape around him is littered with the debris left behind after hundreds of structures were swept away by a mudslide in 2011, including his former house....
Canadian insurers face record costs from 2024 extreme weather
Jan 14, 2025 (AFP)
Events that cause significant destruction "are escalating at a shocking rate and Canada is simply not prepared," said Celyeste Power, president of the IBC, an i...
UK climate activists target Darwin's grave with chalk
Jan 13, 2025 (AFP)
The Just Stop Oil (JSO) group said two of its supporters spray-painted with chalk "1.5 is dead" on the 19th-century biologist's grave in Westminster Abbey in ce...
Braced with fire defenses, Getty art center faces LA flames
Jan 11, 2025 (AFP)
Nestled in the mountains above Los Angeles, the famed art museum is within a new evacuation warning zone as the Palisades Fire roars east toward populated areas...
Mexico's president formally launches campaign to get guns off streets
Jan 10, 2025 (AFP)
The plan, called "Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace," will offer cash to those who anonymously leave weapons at designated drop-off locations, including churches...
Italy FM says new Syria leader pledged to stop 'illegal immigration'
Jan 10, 2025 (AFP)
"Sharaa says he is ready to block illegal immigration, (and) fight against drug traffickers... two crucial commitments for Italy," Tajani said in the Lebanese c...
Right-wing disinformation targets DEI, 'liberal' policies as LA burns
Jan 10, 2025 (AFP)
Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, who was appointed in 2022 after two decades of service, was singled out in a series of X posts blaming her department's ...
Climate disasters drive unusually high losses in 2024: Munich Re
Jan 09, 2025 (AFP)
The amount of insured losses totalled $140 billion (136 billion euros) over the past 12 months, making 2024 the third-highest total since 1980, Munich Re said i...
Mexicans offered $1,300 to hand in a machine gun
Jan 08, 2025 (AFP)
The financial incentives for people dropping off weapons at collection points in churches were published late Monday in the country's official gazette. They inc...
UN warns of shelter needs in Gaza after hypothermia deaths
Jan 03, 2025 (AFP)
With children dying of hypothermia, the United Nations' migration agency said it was deeply alarmed by the "devastating impact" of winter rains and freezing tem...
Mayotte families left homeless by cyclone leave shelters
Jan 01, 2025 (AFP)
At this time of year, preparations for the new school year are normally well under way. Instead, the families living there are having to find another place to l...
French premier promises concrete aid for cyclone-hit Mayotte
Dec 30, 2024 (AFP)
The most devastating cyclone to hit France's poorest department in 90 years caused colossal damage in mid-December, killing at least 39 people and injuring more...
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