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Fukushima plant boss says another disaster won't threaten clean-up
Feb 10, 2016 (AFP)
The chief of Japan's shuttered Fukushima nuclear power plant warned Wednesday that the biggest risk the crippled facility faces is another major earthquake and ...
Turkish PM slams 'hypocritical' calls to open borders
Feb 10, 2016 (AFP)
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday slammed as "hypocritical" calls by some countries urging Ankara to open its borders to Syrian refugees while...
Prosecutors seek developer's detention after Taiwan collapse
Feb 09, 2016 (AFP)
Prosecutors in Taiwan were Tuesday seeking to detain the developer of a 16-storey apartment complex toppled by a deadly quake, officials said Tuesday, amid susp...
NATO to debate Turkey call for migrant help
Feb 09, 2016 (AFP)
NATO will take any request to help with the refugee crisis "very seriously", chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday after Germany and Turkey sought the alliance's ...
Survivors including child pulled alive from Taiwan quake rubble
Feb 08, 2016 (AFP)
A girl aged eight and three others were rescued Monday from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment tower complex, more than two days after it was felled by an earthqu...
Indian soldier rescued after six days in Himalayan avalanche
Feb 08, 2016 (AFP)
One of 10 Indian soldiers feared dead after an avalanche six days ago in the remote Himalayas has been miraculously rescued alive, officials said. He was found ...
China calls for more than 120 to be punished over chemical blast
Feb 05, 2016 (AFP)
China on Friday quietly released the findings of an inquiry into its worst industrial accident in years, calling for 123 people connected to the deadly chemical...
Nepal quake survivors fight freezing temperatures
Feb 05, 2016 (AFP)
Nine months after a massive earthquake hit Nepal, thousands of survivors are now fighting sub-zero temperatures in flimsy temporary shelters, awaiting governmen...
China jails 14 over factory blast that killed 146
Feb 03, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese courts have jailed 14 government officials and company executives for up to seven-and-a-half years over a 2014 factory explosion that killed 146 workers...
Canada considers housing Syrian refugees at military bases
Feb 03, 2016 (AFP)
Faced with a shortage of affordable housing, Canada said Wednesday it is considering putting Syrian refugees up at military bases. Canada has welcomed 15,685 Sy...
Homeless Gazans struggle during harsh winter
Jan 31, 2016 (AFP)
Azza al-Najjar struggles in vain to keep her two-year-old warm by wrapping him in blankets in her prefabricated metal home as a winter storm lashes the Gaza Str...
Facebook blocks unlicensed gun sales
Jan 30, 2016 (AFP)
Facebook has banned people using the social network for unlicensed gun sales after pressure from anti-gun violence groups alarmed over the ease with which firea...
Chinese ship to join Australia-led search for MH370
Jan 29, 2016 (AFP)
A Chinese ship is set to join the search for Malaysia Airlines MH370, Australia's deputy prime minister said Friday, as the jet's fate remains a mystery almost ...
Ten El Faro families settle with owners of sunken US ship
Jan 26, 2016 (AFP)
The families of 10 sailors who died when the US cargo ship El Faro sank in a hurricane agreed Monday to receive $500,000 each in a settlement with the vessel's ...
China pushes inferno documentary into purgatory
Jan 22, 2016 (AFP)
It is a vision of hell on earth: green hills blasted into black heaps, and workers toiling under snarling machinery, dodging hot red sparks and rivers of molten...
Charities warn of 'desperate' plight of refugees in snow
Jan 19, 2016 (AFP)
Leading children's charities warned Tuesday that young refugees are at serious risk from the bitterly cold Balkan weather, as figures showed 31,000 migrants hav...
Nepal quake rebuilding to take years, new chief says
Jan 18, 2016 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of Nepalis left homeless after April's massive earthquake will have to spend years living in temporary shelters, the country's reconstruction ...
MH370 search finds new shipwreck, but no plane
Jan 13, 2016 (AFP)
The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has uncovered a shipwreck deep underwater, officials said Wednesday, the second such discovery since the sea...
Six years on, quake-devastated Haiti mourns its dead
Jan 12, 2016 (AFP)
Haitians paused Tuesday to mourn the 200,000 people killed six years ago in a devastating earthquake that left the country with wounds that have yet to heal. Al...
Guatemalan ex-dictator set for genocide retrial
Jan 08, 2016 (AFP)
A Guatemala court will begin a special closed-door retrial Monday of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity commit...
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