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Love offers fresh dreams for Philippine typhoon survivors
Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)
Jovelyn Luana and Joel Aradana plan to light candles at a mass grave to mark one year since Super Typhoon Haiyan stole both their families, but they will do it ...
Indians angry Anderson never tried over Bhopal disaster
Nov 01, 2014 (AFP)
Campaigners for survivors of India's Bhopal disaster voiced distress Saturday that former Union Carbide boss Warren Anderson never faced trial over the deadly i...
Italy ignores pleas, ends boat migrant rescue operation
Oct 31, 2014 (AFP)
Italy on Friday ignored the pleas of aid agencies and confirmed the end of its search and rescue operation "Mare Nostrum", responsible for saving tens of thousa...
There were warning signs ahead of Sri Lanka mudslide: survivors
Oct 31, 2014 (AFP)
Sniffer dogs were deployed Friday to search for mudslide victims in Sri Lanka as survivors said they had seen warning signs of the disaster, such as cracks in t...
Rains hamper Sri Lanka mudslide tragedy search effort
Oct 30, 2014 (AFP)
Heavy rains disrupted a massive search Thursday for scores of people feared buried in a landslide on a Sri Lankan tea estate, further dimming prospects of findi...
British police pay mother of spy's child
Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)
British police are to pay compensation to woman who had a child with a man she did not know was an undercover agent, the Guardian and BBC reported on Thursday. ...
Philippines' Aquino criticises typhoon rebuilding delays
Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)
Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Wednesday he was unhappy with the pace of rebuilding efforts in areas hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan last year, labelling ...
Natural disasters killed over 22,000 in 2013: Red Cross
Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)
Natural disasters claimed over 22,000 lives last year, with Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines the deadliest of all, the Red Cross said Thursday. In its annual r...
Rescuers airlift 154 to safety after deadly Nepal storm
Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)
Workers using helicopters and battling waist-deep snow rescued over 150 people including foreign trekkers left stranded in Nepal's Himalayas Thursday, two days ...
Glitzy Russian TV drama brings Chernobyl to new generation
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
A group of teenagers wanders through abandoned classrooms, clambers up a rusted wheel and stands on the roof of an apartment block topped with letters reading "...
Disasters hit over-60s hardest: UN
Oct 13, 2014 (AFP)
People aged over 60 bear the brunt of disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, and governments must stop sidelining them before tragedy strikes, the United...
Indians killed by lightning in Colombia to be left unburied
Oct 12, 2014 (AFP)
Eleven Wiwa Indians killed by lightning during a tribal ceremony in Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains will be left unburied where they died according to their ...
Groundbreaking new tsunami warning system set for 2015 India launch
Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)
A new groundbreaking tsunami warning system, based in Hyderabad, has been scheduled for launch in the first quarter of 2015. This follows the opening of a new R...
Woman survives 17 days lost in Australian rainforest
Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)
A woman missing for more than two weeks in a rugged Australian rainforest has stumbled out alive after surviving a chase by a crocodile and eating small fish, o...
Chobani yogurt founder gives $2mn for Syria/Iraq refugees
Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)
The founder of US yogurt brand Chobani said Thursday he has given $2 million for Iraqi and Syrian refugees massed along Turkey's borders. The money from Chobani...
Australia shifts MH370 search zone further south
Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)
Investigators Wednesday confirmed that the priority search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has moved further south as end-of-flight scenarios in...
Pakistan bars relief goods to flood-hit Indian Kashmir
Oct 04, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan on Saturday barred activists from taking relief goods intended for flood victims to the border of Indian-controlled Kashmir, where delays in aid have c...
In Nobel season, laureates fret for sickly Earth
Oct 04, 2014 (AFP)
Eleven Nobel laureates will pool their clout next week to sound a warning, declaring that mankind is living beyond its means and darkening its future. At a conf...
Predicting landslides with light
Sep 30, 2014 (SPX)
Optical fiber sensors are used around the world to monitor the condition of difficult-to-access segments of infrastructure-such as the underbellies of bridges, ...
IS pillaging Iraqi artefacts, UNESCO warns
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
Islamic State jihadists occupying parts of Iraq are destroying age-old heritage sites and looting others to sell valued artefacts on the black market, experts g...
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