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UK charity expands Philippine anti-trafficking work
Jan 17, 2014 (AFP)
A UK-based children's charity said Friday it will expand an anti-human trafficking project in the Philippines, as fears grow that young survivors of Super Typho...
Tornadoes, flood, drought cost US billions in 2013
Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)
Seven weather disasters, including tornadoes, droughts and a flood, cost the United States at least a billion dollars each last year and killed more than 100 pe...
Haiti marks fourth anniversary of quake that killed 250,000
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
Haiti marked four years on Sunday since a violent earthquake shattered the impoverished nation, which is still struggling to recover from the widespread devasta...
Funding Problems Threaten US Disaster Preparedness
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York City prompted large increases in government funding to help communities respond and recover after man-made and natural di...
Microalgae and aquatic plants can help to decrease radiopollution in the Fukushima area
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
After a huge earthquake caused severe damage to the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, Japanese plant scientists have been working to determine the impact...
Mayor of Italy earthquake town quits over graft
Jan 11, 2014 (AFP)
The mayor of the Italian town of L'Aquila, which was partially destroyed in a 2009 earthquake that killed 309 people, stepped down Saturday following a corrupti...
Four years after earthquake, Haiti still in ruins
Jan 11, 2014 (AFP)
Four years after Haiti was hit by a violent earthquake, the dragging pace of reconstruction is nowhere more apparent than the capital, where its landmark presid...
Typhoon sparks Philippine child trafficking fears: charity
Jan 11, 2014 (AFP)
A UK-based children's charity has asked the Philippines to investigate the suspected recruitment of child workers for sex trafficking in a region devastated by ...
'Cramped' houses row over Philippine typhoon survivors
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
International aid agencies have criticised a Philippine government plan to move homeless survivors of the country's deadliest typhoon into "cramped" temporary s...
Asylum-seekers allege mistreatment by Australian navy
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
Asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia claimed Wednesday that members of the Australian navy subjected them to verbal and physical mistreatment as their boat ...
Four arrested over Italy quake contract bribes
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
Four people were placed under house arrest on Wednesday for alleged bribery linked to reconstruction contracts following the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila in cent...
Philippine inflation jumps following Haiyan
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
Devastation caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan pushed inflation in the Philippines to a two-year high of 4.1 percent in December, the government said Tuesday. Econo...
'Village of Widows' determined to rebuild in India flood disaster
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
Cradling her newborn daughter at her home in a remote valley in the Indian Himalayas, Dhanita Devi tells of her determination to fight for her family's survival...
Classes reopen in Philippine typhoon zone
Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)
Schools reopened Monday in badly damaged central Philippine towns for the first time since one of the world's strongest storms ever to hit land killed thousands...
Typhoon brings unexpected medical relief to Philippine town
Jan 05, 2014 (AFP)
A devastating typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines has unexpectedly given young traffic accident victim Mario Renos hope that he could one...
South African Trauma Center Launches Portable Electronic Trauma Health Record Application
Jan 03, 2014 (SPX)
Electronic health records (EHRs) have become standard practice throughout hospitals in North America, but in countries with fewer resources many front-line clin...
Haitian president urges his country to come together
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
Haiti's President Michel Martelly urged his fellow citizens Wednesday to come together to rebuild the poverty-stricken country devastated by an earthquake nearl...
Hundreds of corpses unburied after Philippine typhoon
Dec 28, 2013 (AFP)
More than a thousand dead victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan lay unburied Saturday, seven weeks after the region was battered by the Philippines' deadliest storm, ...
Brazil vows better flood alert systems
Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)
President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vowed to improve warning systems after touring flood-hit areas of southeast Brazil where 40 people have died following torren...
Iran vows to restore glory of quake-hit Bam citadel
Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)
A senior Iranian official said Thursday that the ancient citadel of Bam, destroyed by an earthquake a decade ago, will again be a major tourist attraction by 20...
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