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Rescuers battle rain in search for India landslide victims
Jul 31, 2014 (AFP)
Rescuers were desperately searching into the night Thursday for victims of a landslide in western India that buried dozens of homes, with fears the death toll c...
Military mission to MH17 crash site 'unrealistic': Dutch PM
Jul 27, 2014 (AFP)
An international military mission to secure the MH17 crash site in rebel-held Ukraine is currently "unrealistic," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Sunday...
Federal judge overturns Washington DC ban on guns in public
Jul 27, 2014 (AFP)
A federal judge has ruled that a ban on citizens carrying handguns in public in the US capital Washington DC is unconstitutional. In a 19-page opinion, Judge Fr...
Entire families wiped out in Air Algerie plane crash
Jul 25, 2014 (AFP)
France announced Friday there were no survivors on board the Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali as it emerged that several families were wiped out in the t...
Fukushima monkeys show possible 'effects of radiation'
Jul 24, 2014 (AFP)
Monkeys near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have lower blood cell counts than cousins living further away, possibly because of radiation exposure, a...
Bruised, battered but still fighting: Bob Geldof
Jul 24, 2014 (AFP)
After three months of private grief over the death of his daughter Peaches, Bob Geldof returned to the world spotlight on Thursday, taking up the cause of AIDS ...
One dead as hundreds flee false tsunami alert in Philippines
Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)
A false tsunami alarm left one person dead and prompted hundreds of others to flee their homes in the Philippines, where natural disasters are frequent, a civil...
After MH17 tragedy, Australia assures search for MH370 goes on
Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)
Australia said the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continued uninterrupted Wednesday, even as the head of the search coordination agency was s...
Death toll rises, blackouts remain in Philippines after typhoon
Jul 21, 2014 (AFP)
The death toll is still rising and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power five days after Typhoon Rammasun's rampage through the Philippines, authorit...
Italian cruise ship wreck prepared for final voyage
Jul 20, 2014 (AFP)
Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship is being readied for its final voyage to the scrapyard on Tuesday, two and a half years after it crashed into an idyllic Med...
Investigators struggle to reach MH17 crash site in strife-torn Ukraine
Jul 19, 2014 (AFP)
Investigators faced massive hurdles Saturday as they sought access to the grisly crash site of a Malaysian plane in eastern Ukraine, with the area controlled by...
Three drown as Italian navy rescues around 1,400 migrants
Jul 17, 2014 (AFP)
Italy's navy on Thursday said it had rescued some 1,400 migrants from six boats intercepted crossing the Mediterranean over the past 24 hours, as smugglers take...
Italy cruise ship wreck set to rise from waves
Jul 12, 2014 (AFP)
The refloating of Italy's ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship is set to begin Monday, with a high-risk salvage operation to raise the rusting hulk ahead of it...
China gave $14.4 bln in foreign aid in three years
Jul 10, 2014 (AFP)
China, the world's second-largest economy after a decades-long boom, provided a total of 89.3 billion yuan (now $14.4 billion) in foreign aid in the three years...
Accidents raise safety questions on Hong Kong waters
Jul 06, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong is one of the world's busiest ports, but as a growing number of container ships compete with fishing boats for space in an ever-shrinking harbour, a s...
Malaysia to deploy more equipment in MH370 search
Jul 06, 2014 (AFP)
Malaysia will send more equipment to the southern Indian Ocean to join the search for Flight MH370 which went missing four months ago, a minister said Sunday. D...
Haiti PM to donors: please honor aid pledges
Jul 04, 2014 (AFP)
Only half of the nine billion dollars in international aid promised to Haiti after a devastating earthquake in 2010 has been delivered, the prime minister told ...
With climate change, heat more than natural disasters will drive people away
Jul 03, 2014 (SPX)
Although scenes of people fleeing from dramatic displays of Mother Nature's power dominate the news, gradual increases in an area's overall temperature - and to...
We Can Eliminate the Major Tornado Threat in Tornado Alley
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
The annually recurring devastating tornado attacks in US Tornado Alley raise an important question: Can we eliminate the major tornado threat in Tornado Alley? ...
Abandoned children fear as US troops eye Philippines
Jun 26, 2014 (AFP)
When the last US ship pulled out of the Philippines' Subic naval base more than two decades ago, a desperate young woman's hopes of finding her father sailed aw...
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