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Nov 16, 2015 (AFP)

The death toll from a landslide triggered by flooding in China has risen to 25, with 12 more people missing, state-run media reported Monday. The avalanche of m...

German minister cautions against terror-refugee link

Nov 15, 2015 (AFP)

Germany's defence minister Sunday sought to quash speculation in the wake of the Paris attacks that radicals bent on violence could slip into Europe among a flo...

A new tool to guide recovery from disasters

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

The 1999 Odisha Cyclone struck the eastern coast of India, knocking out whole swaths of the Indian Railways Network, bringing the eastern IRN system to a halt. ...

Cold threatens 700,000 children in eastern Ukraine: UNICEF

Nov 13, 2015 (AFP)

Damaged pipelines in war-torn eastern Ukraine are threatening to cut off water, heating and electrical supplies at a time when temperatures are plunging, puttin...

McMurdo extends search and rescue ecosystem with new comsat solution

Nov 11, 2015 (SPX)

McMurdo is extending its world leading Search and Rescue Ecosystem with the launch of the SARBE CommLink at the Dubai Airshow. SARBE CommLink is a next-generati...

Slovenia toughens border ahead of EU migrant summit

Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)

Slovenia said Tuesday it will build "obstacles" on its border with Croatia, in a move that German Chancellor Angela Merkel said highlighted the urgency for the ...

Italy's painstaking bid to identify shipwrecked migrants

Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)

The shy children from a dog-eared photograph found in the pocket of a migrant drowned off Italy may never know what happened to the man who might have been thei...

McMurdo completes MEOSAR satellite ground station in New Zealand

Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)

McMurdo has announced that it has completed the installation of a six-antenna next-generation Medium-Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) satellite ground sta...

Africa's Lake Chad could fuel new migrant crisis: UN

Nov 08, 2015 (AFP)

A perfect storm of drought, poverty and armed conflict in Africa's Lake Chad basin could fuel Europe's migrant crisis if world leaders fall short at two crucial...

Painfully slow rebuild after Philippine super typhoon

Nov 06, 2015 (AFP)

Two years after a super typhoon devastated the Philippines and sounded a global alarm on climate change, a massive rebuilding programme has had big successes bu...

Nepal at risk of 'humanitarian crisis': US embassy

Nov 05, 2015 (AFP)

The United States warned Thursday of a looming "humanitarian crisis" in quake-hit Nepal which is facing crippling shortages of vital supplies as protesters bloc...

Aid from neighbours reaches Yemen as cyclone eases

Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)

Relief aid started to be flown in to Yemen on Wednesday as a rare tropical cyclone eased into a depression after wreaking havoc in parts of the war-torn country...

Egypt's Sisi calls for NATO help in Libya 'vacuum'

Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for NATO powers to help rebuild Libya, beset by violence since an uprising backed by the Western military allianc...

Croatia opens new migrant centre as winter approaches

Nov 03, 2015 (AFP)

A new Croatian centre set up to improve the journey of refugees and migrants opened its doors on Tuesday, receiving about 1,000 arrivals by train on a cold and ...

Four castaways rescued off Mexico after month adrift

Nov 02, 2015 (AFP)

The Mexican navy has rescued four fishermen from Colombia and Ecuador who spent more than a month adrift in a small boat after getting lost at sea and running o...

Using Google Street View to assess the engineering impact of natural disasters

Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)

Photographs from Google Street View before and after a major natural disaster could help researchers and civil engineers to assess the damage to buildings and i...

Philippines' annual graveyard gatherings mix celebration with sadness

Nov 01, 2015 (AFP)

Millions of people in the Philippines made their annual pilgrimages to family gravesites on Sunday in a tradition that combines fervent Catholic faith with the ...

'Are we not Pakistanis?' Quake survivors appeal for aid

Oct 29, 2015 (AFP)

Desperate survivors bracing for a fourth freezing night in the rubble of their earthquake-flattened homes appealed for aid Thursday as the Pakistan government s...

Desperation grows as Afghan-Pakistan quake victims wait for aid

Oct 29, 2015 (AFP)

Earthquake survivors in Pakistan and Afghanistan emerged from a third night without shelter Thursday, as village leaders warned they had nothing to protect chil...

Relief agencies battle to reach Afghan-Pakistan quake victims

Oct 28, 2015 (AFP)

Relief agencies were battling Wednesday to reach cold and hungry survivors of a devastating earthquake that has killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and Afgh...