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A year on, millions of Nepal quake survivors wait for aid
Apr 22, 2016 (AFP)
A year after an earthquake flattened her home in Nepal, Menuka Rokaya still lives in a tent with her husband and nine-month-old baby as they await even a sliver...
A Chinese eye delivers new perspectives on Europe's migrant crisis
Apr 22, 2016 (AFP)
Liu Xiaodong, the acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist, has put Europe's migrant crisis at the centre of an exhibition of new work which goes on show from Frid...
NATO warns migrant smugglers 'shifting routes rapidly'
Apr 21, 2016 (AFP)
NATO said Thursday it had no plans to wind up a mission to stop migrant traffickers in the Aegean Sea and warned smugglers were changing routes very quickly. Al...
Ecuador's president announces economic measures in wake of killer quake
Apr 21, 2016 (AFP)
Ecuador's president has announced drastic economic measures, including an increase in some taxes and mandatory wage contributions, to deal with the aftermath of...
Coffins pile up in Ecuador stadium-turned-morgue
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
A hodgepodge of donated coffins in various shapes, sizes and colors is piled in a corner of the football stadium in the Ecuadoran resort town of Pedernales. The...
Lessons of Chernobyl disaster, 30 years on
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
Ukraine next week marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, when human error and flawed Soviet reactor technology led to the world's worst nuclear a...
30 years on, Russia's Chernobyl victims say they have been abandoned
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
Russian pensioner Anna Venderenko says her village wrestles daily with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, dreading the moment when a lifeline provided by ...
NASA tests earthquake mitigation system
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
Rob Berry, an engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the principal investigator for the disruptive tuned mass system addres...
Chernobyl zone turns into testbed for Nature's rebound
Apr 19, 2016 (AFP)
What happens when the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is left all but abandoned for nearly 30 years? In the case of Chernobyl, it becomes a unique ch...
Aid groups rush to quake-hit Ecuador, families still trapped
Apr 19, 2016 (AFP)
International rescuers and aid groups rushed Tuesday to help victims of Ecuador's earthquake as searchers dug for families trapped in rubble three days after th...
Japan opens prison to shelter quake evacuees
Apr 19, 2016 (AFP)
Japan has resorted to opening a prison to those left homeless by two deadly earthquakes, officials said Tuesday, highlighting the challenges of dealing with ten...
Rescuers pull out survivors of deadly Ecuador quake
Apr 19, 2016 (AFP)
Rescuers and desperate families clawed through rubble Monday, pulling out survivors two days after an earthquake that killed at least 413 people and devastated ...
Japan battles to care for 100,000 evacuees after quake
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
Japan on Monday enlisted US help to airlift supplies to some of the 100,000 people made homeless by earthquakes in the country's south, as rescuers struggled to...
Defying radiation, elderly residents cling on in Chernobyl
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
Defying radioactive contamination and a government evacuation order, Yevgeny Markevich returned to his beloved Chernobyl shortly after it suffered the world's w...
Ecuador quake survivors dig for kin with bare hands
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
The desperation driving survivors of Ecuador's powerful earthquake to find loved ones trapped under rubble could be seen in the tools many used in their amateur...
Rescuers in desperate search for survivors of deadly Ecuador quake
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
Rescuers in Ecuador clawed through collapsed buildings Monday as they scrambled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed 272 people, injured thous...
Natural disasters since 1900 'have cost $7 trillion'
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
Natural disasters have caused more than $7 trillion (6.2 trillion euros) in economic damage worldwide since 1900, with floods and storms accounting for nearly 6...
30 years on, Chernobyl worker remembers the aftermath
Apr 17, 2016 (AFP)
Igor Magala can still remember the metallic taste he got in his mouth as he drove up to the Chernobyl nuclear power station on the morning of April 26, 1986. Th...
Ukraine to mark 30 years since Chernobyl shook the world
Apr 17, 2016 (AFP)
Ukraine is preparing to mark 30 years since the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst nuclear accident whose death toll remains a mystery and which continues to...
Social networks offer comfort, confusion in Japan quake
Apr 17, 2016 (AFP)
People trapped under buildings that collapsed in Japan's double earthquakes used social media to chat to friends and keep their spirits up while they awaited re...
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