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War games in Greece near Macedonia, Turkey amid migration row
Apr 14, 2016 (AFP)
The Greek army on Thursday staged a double military exercise on its border with Macedonia and an island cluster near Turkey, officials said, amid tension with S...
Bringing the landslide laboratory to remote regions
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
It'd be hard to overstate how landslide-prone China's Loess Plateau is; thanks to millions of years' accumulation of the wind-deposited, highly-porous sediment ...
Crane collapse kills 18 in southern China: state media
Apr 13, 2016 (AFP)
A huge crane which collapsed in high winds killed 18 people at a construction site in southern China early Wednesday, state media said. Another 18 are in hospit...
Pakistan ends search for 23 people trapped by landslide
Apr 09, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistan on Saturday ended the search for 23 people buried by a landslide in the north, after last week's heavy rains that authorities said killed 117 people. T...
Czechs scrap programme to resettle Iraqi Christians
Apr 07, 2016 (AFP)
The Czech government on Thursday abandoned a programme to resettle Iraqi Christians after some refugees left for Germany and others decided to return home. "Bas...
Five charged over deadly Taiwan quake building collapse
Apr 07, 2016 (AFP)
Five people were charged Thursday over the deadly collapse of an apartment block in Taiwan during an earthquake, including the building's owner, with prosecutor...
Vibrations make large landslides flow like fluid
Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)
A new study may finally explain why some landslides travel much greater distances than scientists would normally expect. A team of researchers used a sophistica...
To flee Lebanon's trash crisis, family heads to Syria
Apr 04, 2016 (AFP)
Imagine living near a trash dump so putrid that you would rather move to war-torn Syria. That's what Fayyad Ayyash, his wife Riham and their four young daughter...
It's home bittersweet home for returning Iraqi migrants
Apr 02, 2016 (AFP)
Disappointment, simple homesickness and even the high cost of cigarettes are pushing a growing number of Iraqis to return home after risking everything to reach...
Red Cross says more funds needed in wake of Fiji super cyclone
Mar 31, 2016 (AFP)
The Red Cross appealed for more funds to help disaster-stricken Fiji on Thursday, saying 60,000 people remain homeless six weeks after a super cyclone battered ...
Japan's Nuclear Watchdog OKs Use of Soil Freezing for Protection of Water
Mar 31, 2016 (Sputnik)
The Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority approved a plan on Wednesday to freeze soil around the damaged reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear power plant ...
Insurance for an uncertain climate
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
In December, negotiators at the Paris climate meeting adopted insurance as an instrument to aid climate adaptation. Earlier in the year, the leaders of the G7 p...
Sierra Leone begins destroying stockpile of 'unuseable' arms
Mar 26, 2016 (AFP)
Police and military arms experts in Sierra Leone began destroying nearly 5,000 "unserviceable weapons" on Saturday in an operation set to last two weeks. Among ...
TEPCO bungles Fukushima cleanup as robots damaged by Radiation
Mar 25, 2016 (Sputnik)
The much-maligned Japanese energy company is at it again with another technological failure. Cleanup efforts at the shuttered and leaking Fukushima nuclear plan...
Prince Harry extends Nepal trip to help quake victims
Mar 23, 2016 (AFP)
Britain's Prince Harry announced during an official visit to Nepal Wednesday that he would extend his trip by six days to help rebuild a village school damaged ...
Asia most exposed to disasters, Africa most vulnerable: study
Mar 23, 2016 (AFP)
Countries and mega-cities across Asia are highly exposed to natural hazards ranging from cyclones to earthquakes, but people in sub-Saharan Africa are more vuln...
Maths could help search and rescue ships sail more safely in heavy seas
Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)
A unique new computer model built on highly complex mathematics could make it possible to design safer versions of the 'fast ships' widely used in search and re...
No hope of survivors in northern Pakistan avalanche: officials
Mar 21, 2016 (AFP)
Chances of survival were fading for seven people feared buried under an avalanche three days ago in a remote northern Pakistani village, authorities said Monday...
Hope fades to fear for Chinese refugees in junta-run Thailand
Mar 20, 2016 (AFP)
Preferring to risk death than face deportation, Dong Junming boarded a boat off Thailand's coast alongside eight fellow Chinese asylum-seekers in early March wi...
Two schoolchildren killed, nine missing in Pakistan avalanche
Mar 20, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistani rescuers on Sunday found the bodies of two schoolchildren hit by an avalanche in the mountainous northwest, while around nine more remain buried benea...
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