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Gulf, Turkey bemoan UN inaction on Aleppo
Oct 13, 2016 (AFP)
Turkey's foreign minister and his Arab counterparts in the Gulf on Thursday condemned "indiscriminate" air strikes on Syria's Aleppo and expressed "deep regret"...
UN chief to visit hurricane-hit Haiti as funding appeal falls short
Oct 13, 2016 (AFP)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Haiti on Saturday to visit areas devastated by Hurricane Matthew as a UN funding appeal for the Caribbean nation...
Haitians rebuild as aid effort gains traction
Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)
New tin roofs gleaming in the Caribbean sun and the sudden appearance of UN and US charity teams driving along now-cleared roads showed that southern Haiti was ...
Rubble with a view: a Haitian family's home destroyed
Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)
With a perch above a white Caribbean shore lapped by azure waters, the Edouard family was doing all right by Haitian standards. But then Hurricane Matthew struc...
US halts deportations of Haitians after hurricane
Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)
Hurricane Matthew's devastation of Haiti has prompted the US government to temporarily suspend its recent decision to resume deportations of undocumented Haitia...
China house collapse survivor a left-behind child
Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)
The little girl who survived a building collapse in China in her dead father's arms is a "left-behind" child who had just arrived for a reunion with her migrant...
Haiti devastation slows aid effort
Oct 11, 2016 (AFP)
The US military and UN agencies ramped up aid deliveries to Haiti's storm-hit south on Monday, but cut roads and communications, and blockades by some starving ...
Father's last embrace saves girl in China building collapse
Oct 11, 2016 (AFP)
A little girl protected by the embrace of her dead father was the last survivor pulled out of the rubble of collapsed multi-storey buildings in China, reports s...
At least 1.4 million need aid in Haiti after Matthew: UN
Oct 11, 2016 (AFP)
Haiti faces a humanitarian crisis that requires a "massive response" from the international community, the United Nations chief said Monday, with at least 1.4 m...
Haiti's hurricane survivors plead for aid
Oct 10, 2016 (AFP)
"Help us," pleaded survivors of Hurricane Matthew in southern Haiti on Sunday as they massed in shelters or in crumpled homes along a shredded coast. In several...
By 2100, storms will unleash more floods in New York: study
Oct 10, 2016 (AFP)
Extreme floods unleashed by massive storms on the scale of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 are expected to rise sharply in the coming decades in the New York City area,...
Haiti in pain as hurricane toll soars, aid sought
Oct 08, 2016 (AFP)
The full scale of the devastation in hurricane-hit rural Haiti became clear Saturday as the death toll surged past 400, three days after Hurricane Matthew level...
Agencies warn of fresh disaster as winter looms in flood-hit N. Korea
Oct 07, 2016 (AFP)
Humanitarian agencies are warning of a "second disaster" in flood-hit North Korea with tens of thousands -- many of them children -- still homeless as the regio...
'Complete destruction' in southern Haiti city: CARE
Oct 06, 2016 (AFP)
Haiti's southern city of Jeremie suffered "complete destruction" when it was hammered by Hurricane Matthew, the CARE relief agency said on Thursday. "It's compl...
Aid teams bracing for the worst as Matthew lashes Haiti
Oct 05, 2016 (AFP)
As Hurricane Matthew -- the Caribbean's worst storm in nearly a decade -- pounds Haiti, aid organizations are bracing for "catastrophic damage" in the impoveris...
'Smashed cranes' slow aid flow to Yemen: UN aid chief
Oct 05, 2016 (AFP)
"Smashed cranes" at Yemen's rebel-held Hodeida port are hindering the entry of relief supplies to ease a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the war-torn count...
Selfies and prayers as Pope visits Italy quake zone
Oct 04, 2016 (AFP)
Pope Francis on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to the Italian mountain communities devastated by an August earthquake, mixing poignant silent prayers amid the ru...
Hurricane Matthew exposes Haiti's rich-poor gap
Oct 03, 2016 (AFP)
As Hurricane Matthew churns toward Haiti, the inability of the country's impoverished majority to prepare for the storm has laid bare the gaping economic dispar...
1 dead, dozens missing after China landslides: reports
Sep 29, 2016 (AFP)
One person has died and dozens are missing after landslides swept through two Chinese villages, state media said Thursday, as rescuers scrambled to find survivo...
27 missing in E. China landslide: Xinhua
Sep 28, 2016 (AFP)
A landslide which hit a village in eastern China Wednesday buried dozens of houses and left 27 people missing, state media reported. The landslide struck the vi...
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