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Snow makes migrants' journey through Europe even harder
Jan 07, 2016 (AFP)
It's the first time that Arman Butt, a Pakistani man desperately seeking to reach western Europe, sees snow. But as the 30-year-old goes limp in the harsh chill...
PTSD nation? US shootings inflict growing mental toll
Jan 07, 2016 (AFP)
Mass shootings from Newtown to San Bernardino are weighing ever more heavily on Americans, with signs of post-traumatic stress spreading far beyond the circle o...
Natural catastrophe losses total $90 bn in 2015: Munich Re
Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)
Financial losses from natural catastrophes totalled $90 billion in 2015, the lowest level since 2009, German reinsurer Munich Re said on Monday. Natural disaste...
Obama set to hold town hall meeting on gun control
Jan 03, 2016 (UPI)
Back from holiday vacation, President Obama is preparing to go back to work -- without Congress. Motivated by the rash of gun violence the country has suffered ...
Shanghai raises security on New Year stampede anniversary
Dec 31, 2015 (AFP)
China's commercial hub Shanghai stepped up security along its famed waterfront on Thursday, seeking to prevent the crowds that caused a crush which killed 36 pe...
UN offers to help Iraqi refugees return to Ramadi
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered Wednesday to help Iraq restore basic services to Ramadi and allow refugees to quickly return to the city after it was r...
Britain's floods: causes, costs and consequences
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
With more floods forecast Wednesday as Storm Frank sweeps in, Britain is asking whether its defences can deal with extreme weather events, with many accusing Da...
Freak storm sank China ferry with loss of 450 lives: report
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
An official inquiry has found that a freak storm caused the sinking of a cruise ship on China's Yangtze river with the death of nearly 450 people and recommende...
Bus passengers airlifted as Scotland bears floods brunt
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
Passengers were airlifted from a bus stuck in flood waters in Scotland and thousands of homes lost electricity on Wednesday as Storm Frank lashed northern Brita...
British bikers start anti-looting patrols after floods
Dec 29, 2015 (AFP)
A group of bikers led by a pub landlord from Yorkshire in northern England has begun night-time patrols of flood-ravaged towns and villages to scare off potenti...
Shenzhen landslide zone official jumps to death: police
Dec 28, 2015 (AFP)
The head of an urban enforcement agency in the Chinese district where a huge landslide left scores of people missing has killed himself, authorities said Monday...
Search ends for missing in Myanmar jade mine landslide: police
Dec 27, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers in northern Myanmar called off their search for workers feared buried in a jade mine landslide, police said Sunday, with no missing people or bodies re...
Nepal appoints quake reconstruction chief
Dec 26, 2015 (AFP)
Nepal has appointed a new chief for its reconstruction authority which will allow the body to finally start rebuilding and disbursing aid after April's massive ...
German navy 'rescued over 10,000 migrants' in 2015
Dec 26, 2015 (AFP)
Germany's navy said Saturday it rescued over 10,000 migrants at sea this year, including more than 500 people off the coast of Libya on Christmas day. "The Germ...
New landslide sweeps through Myanmar jade mine
Dec 26, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers were searching through mud and rubble Saturday after a new landslide buried workers -- possibly dozens -- in a remote jade mining region in northern My...
Shenzhen landslide an industrial accident, not geological disaster
Dec 25, 2015 (AFP)
A landslide last week that killed seven and has left dozens missing was an "industrial safety accident" rather than a geological disaster, a Chinese cabinet inv...
Santa absent this year in typhoon-hit Philippines
Dec 25, 2015 (AFP)
Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in a typhoon-hit ...
Families of Brazil mine spill victims offered $25,600
Dec 24, 2015 (AFP)
The families of people killed and missing after a catastrophic collapse of a waste water dam at a mine in Brazil last month were each offered $25,600 Thursday b...
One survivor found as China pledges landslide probe
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers scrabbling through the debris of a huge three-day-old landslide discovered a young man alive in the mud Wednesday, as China's cabinet announced a probe...
World Bank loans Philippines $500m to fight natural disasters
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
The World Bank approved a $500 million loan Wednesday to help the Philippines deal with natural disasters. It can access the new credit line following "a state ...
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