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Christmas in mud as rain pelts Philippine disaster zone
Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)
Survivors of the Philippines' deadliest typhoon spent a gloomy Christmas Day surrounded by mud Wednesday as heavy rain drove many inside their flimsy shelters, ...
Defiant Philippine typhoon survivors welcome Christmas
Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine survivors of deadly typhoon Haiyan defiantly prepared to celebrate Christmas in their ruined communities Tuesday where hogs were being roasted, festi...
Disaster warning systems could prevent another Tsunami devastation event
Dec 24, 2013 (SPX)
Nine years after the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the deadliest natural disaster in recorded history, a new technological advance is now available, that provides ea...
Uruguay will keep peacekeepers in Haiti through 2014
Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)
Lawmakers in Uruguay on Monday voted to keep peacekeepers in Haiti through the end of 2014, but said the government would keep open the option of an earlier ful...
Companies Donate Satellite Capacity And Ground Infrastructure Services To Philippines
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
SES S.A., SpeedCast and AsiaSat have donated satellite and service capacity to enable NetHope, a consortium of 41 non-governmental organisations around the glob...
Stunned Kerry says US won't abandon typhoon-hit Philippines
Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)
A stunned Secretary of State John Kerry toured a typhoon-devastated Philippine city on Wednesday, pledging more US aid as its Asian ally appealed for internatio...
Philippines launches $8.17 bn Haiyan rebuilding plan
Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)
The Philippines launched an $8.17 billion plan on Wednesday to rebuild the lives of millions made homeless by Super Typhoon Haiyan and strengthen the disaster-p...
UN supplies seeds for typhoon-hit Philippine farmers
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
The UN food agency on Tuesday said it had begun supplying farmers in the Philippines with emergency seed supplies after a devastating typhoon that struck just a...
Santa takes gourmet dinner to Japan nuclear evacuees
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
When Santa arrived at a school hosting children who fled Japan's nuclear disaster, he brought the usual presents, but he also bore something a little less ordin...
Deloitte aids international humanitarian organizations
Dec 16, 2013 (UPI)
Two international humanitarian organizations are to be helped in communications and coordination of aid by Deloitte under its Humanitarian Innovation Program. D...
Desperate Syrians find little comfort in new homes
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
They fled air strikes and shelling, but many of Syria's three million refugees have found little comfort elsewhere, suffering in squalid camps and risking death...
NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems
Dec 11, 2013 (JPL)
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have enhanced existing GPS technologie...
Japan to spend $970 mn on nuclear soil store: report
Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)
Japan is planning to earmark 100 billion yen ($970 million) for a storage facility for tens of thousands of tonnes of soil contaminated with radiation from the ...
Haiti quake destroyed or damaged 60 years of archives
Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)
The huge, deadly earthquake that pulverized Haiti in 2010 also caused destruction or heavy damage to 60 years of public records, the country's director of Natio...
'Dependence' a worry as UN seeks more Philippines typhoon aid
Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)
The Red Cross warned against aid dependency in the Philippines Tuesday as the United Nations urged donors to double their assistance to millions of victims of t...
Agonising wait for the missing in Philippine wastelands
Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)
In the grieving, grey wastelands that were once bustling towns on tropical Philippine islands, thousands of typhoon survivors are enduring an agonising wait of ...
UN to airlift aid from Iraq to Syria
Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)
The United Nations said Tuesday it would for the first time begin airlifting aid items across the border from Iraq to Syria, after receiving the go-ahead from b...
Lebanon races to help Syria refugees ahead of storm
Dec 09, 2013 (AFP)
Lebanese authorities are mobilising to help Syrian refugees living in makeshift camps ahead of a winter storm expected to bring snow and heavy rain, the social ...
Philippines to seek more aid from Japan at summit
Dec 09, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine President Benigno Aquino is to seek more aid when he meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week, more than a month after a monster typho...
Kerry to tour typhoon-hit Philippines, Vietnam
Dec 09, 2013 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry is to make his first visit to the Philippines since taking office to see first-hand the damage left by last month's typhoon, an...
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