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US hospital ship brings care, hope to poor Haitians
Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)
The huge white hospital ship anchored in the Port-au-Prince bay is impossible to miss, drawing Haitians from all over in hopes of a chance to see a doctor and g...
Big China payouts for Tianjin firefighters' families
Sep 10, 2015 (AFP)
China will give unusually large payouts to the families of firefighters killed in giant explosions in Tianjin last month, local media reported, after the disast...
France Nears Completion of Chernobyl Steel Confinement Structure
Sep 09, 2015 (Sputnik)
Two French companies completed the preliminary construction of a giant arch-shaped steel structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the European Bank for...
China outrage after officials say blast relatives 'calm'
Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese media and Internet users voiced outrage after officials said the relatives of those killed in a chemical plant explosion were "calm" as they revealed a ...
EU chief calls human traffickers 'murderers', urges crackdown
Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)
EU president Donald Tusk on Tuesday urged a crackdown on the "murderers" among human traffickers who have killed scores of people trying to reach Europe from co...
France cash pledge for persecuted Mideast minorities
Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)
France will contribute 25 million euros to a global "action plan" for the protection of minorities in the Middle East that are persecuted by the Islamic State g...
Hungary Defence Minister quits amid migration crisis
Sep 07, 2015 (AFP)
Hungarian Defence Minister Csaba Hende resigned Monday, according to a government statement given to state news agency MTI, without giving a reason. After the m...
Britain 'to take 15,000 Syrian refugees': report
Sep 05, 2015 (AFP)
The British government is poised to accept 15,000 Syrian refugees and hopes next month to get backing for air strikes against Islamic State jihadists, the Sunda...
Japan lifts evacuation order for radiation-hit Fukushima town
Sep 05, 2015 (AFP)
The Japanese government on Saturday lifted the evacuation order for the first town near the crippled Fukushima reactors, more than four years after ordering mas...
EU's Mogherini sees military action against migrant smugglers within weeks
Sep 03, 2015 (AFP)
EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said Thursday the bloc could step up action against people smugglers in the Mediterranean within weeks, seizing and d...
NASA, USAID Open Environmental Information Hub for Southeast Asia
Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)
NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Monday launched SERVIR-Mekong, a joint project to strengthen regional environmental monitoring in...
Will talk of the 'Big One' shake the US into quake prep?
Sep 02, 2015 (AFP)
The "Portland Mamas" listserv was on fire this summer. But the heated debates were not about schools and strollers in Oregon's largest city. This time, the hot ...
Japan holds annual disaster response drill
Sep 01, 2015 (AFP)
About 1.6 million people across Japan took part in an annual emergency drill on Tuesday, with schoolchildren taking cover under desks and top officials meeting ...
China chemical plant explosion kills five
Sep 01, 2015 (AFP)
An explosion at a chemical plant in China killed at least five people, local media reported Tuesday, just weeks after a massive blasts in a northern port killed...
Misguided safety assumptions were key factor in Fukushima: IAEA
Sep 01, 2015 (AFP)
A misguided faith in the complete safety of atomic power was a key factor in Japan's 2011 Fukushima accident, the UN nuclear watchdog said in its most comprehen...
Fukushima to start pumping ground water away from plant
Sep 01, 2015 (Sputnik)
Staff at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will begin pumping groundwater from the plant's territory to prevent the buildup of radioactive liqu...
EU to step up action against Mediterranean people smugglers
Sep 01, 2015 (AFP)
The EU is preparing to step up action against people smugglers in the Mediterranean, actively seizing the boats which carry thousands of hapless migrants to Eur...
New Orleans mourns dead, celebrates life on Katrina anniversary
Aug 30, 2015 (AFP)
New Orleans remembered the dead and celebrated its painstaking comeback from disaster on Saturday, a decade after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the "Big Easy...
Nepal honours quake victims in festival of the dead
Aug 30, 2015 (AFP)
Thousands of Nepalis walked in procession through the Kathmandu valley Sunday in a festival to commemorate the dead, which many mourning family members who died...
'Cure' for Chernobyl children: sun, sea, clean air in Portugal
Aug 29, 2015 (AFP)
Anya wasn't even born when Chernobyl exploded nearly 30 years ago, but even today its radioactive fallout stalks her and other Ukrainian youngsters growing up n...
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