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50 feared dead as bus plunges into gorge in India
Sep 04, 2014 (AFP)
Flood waters swept an overcrowded bus carrying a wedding party into a gorge on Thursday with all 50 on board feared dead in India's Himalayan Kashmir region, of...
Italian Air Force SAR units fly AgustaWestland HH-139A aircraft
Sep 04, 2014 (UPI)
The Italian Air Force's search-and-rescue wing near Rome is now conducting missions using AgustaWestland HH-139A helicopters. The HH-139As replace HH-3F Pelican...
New Zealand police investigate quake building failure
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
New Zealand police said Tuesday they will proceed with a criminal investigation into the catastrophic collapse of an office block in the 2011 Christchurch earth...
Fukushima workers to sue TEPCO for danger pay
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
Workers employed in decommissioning the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are to sue operator Tokyo Electric Power and some subcontractors, demanding milli...
Fukushima accepts 'temporary' radioactive waste storage
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
The governor of disaster-struck Fukushima agreed Monday to accept the "temporary" storage of nuclear waste from the Japanese accident, paving the way for an end...
Japan holds nationwide disaster drill
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
About 2.35 million people took part in a government disaster drill in Japan on Monday, hoping to prevent a catastrophe when the quake-prone country is hit by an...
Macedonia detains 100 Syrian, Iraqi immigrants
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
Macedonian police said Monday they have detained more than 100 Syrian and Iraqi immigrants, among them women and children, hiding in a train transporting coal f...
Japan gov't calls on citizens to stockpile toilet paper
Aug 29, 2014 (AFP)
The Japanese government is calling on its citizens to prepare for the worst-case scenario, should a major disaster hit the quake-prone archipelago: Stockpile to...
Heavy equipment falls into Fukushima reactor pool: TEPCO
Aug 29, 2014 (AFP)
A 400-kilogramme (880-pound) machine part fell into a nuclear fuel pool at Japan's crippled Fukushima plant Friday, the operator said. Tokyo Electric Power (TEP...
China landslide kills seven: report
Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)
Seven people died and another 20 were left missing by a landslide in China, state media reported Thursday. The landslide engulfed a village near Fuquan city in ...
Japan landslides death toll hits 70 one week on
Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)
A week after huge landslides swamped the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the confirmed death toll from the tragedy hit 70 on Wednesday, with 18 people still missing...
Expectant newly-weds among Japan landslide missing
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
Details emerged Tuesday of a newly-wed couple who had been expecting their first baby when huge mudslides engulfed their home in western Japan, as the number of...
GenDyn building next-gen 911 call service for Massachusetts
Aug 26, 2014 (UPI)
General Dynamics Information and Technology is to design, build and operate a new IP-based emergency communications system for Massachusetts. The future system ...
EU urged to act over surge in migrant deaths in Med
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
Italy's navy said Tuesday that 24 corpses had been recovered from the latest capsize of a boat carrying migrants from Africa, as EU officials debated how to ste...
Japanese PM visits Hiroshima after killer landslides
Aug 25, 2014 (AFP)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday pledged full support for victims of last week's massive landslides in Hiroshima, as he made his first visit since the disast...
Obama orders probe of police use of military hardware
Aug 24, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama has ordered an investigation into whether it is "appropriate" for the US military to sell battle-grade hardware to local police, a senior...
Families wage citizen campaign to solve MH370 mystery
Aug 24, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese physics student Jimmy Wang had no interest in aviation until March 8, when Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing with his 58-year-old father Wang ...
UN warns of 'massacre' in besieged Iraq Shiite town
Aug 23, 2014 (AFP)
The United Nations warned Saturday that Shiite Turkmen residents of an Iraqi town besieged by jihadists since June risk "massacre" if urgent action is not taken...
Fukushima's legacy
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown, biological samples were obtained only after extensive delays, limiting the information that could be ...
Governor stands down National Guard in US riot town
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
The governor of the US state of Missouri on Thursday ordered National Guard troops to withdraw from a town gripped by nearly two weeks of protests over a police...
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