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Australia-Indonesia relations dip further amid spying row
Nov 20, 2013 (UPI)
Relations between Australia and Indonesia dipped further after Jakarta said it would suspend military and intelligence cooperation, including joint anti-people ...
China sends rescuers to Philippines after criticism over aid
Nov 20, 2013 (AFP)
China was Wednesday sending an emergency response crew to the Philippines nearly two weeks after super typhoon Haiyan wreaked devastation, following staunch cri...
Grisly race to identify the Philippines' typhoon dead
Nov 20, 2013 (AFP)
Clouds of flies rise as forensic pathologist Cecilia Lim opens body bags one-by-one, in a grim but crucial search for the identities of unknown typhoon victims ...
'Help Us': Isolated typhoon victims clamour for food
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
The message spelt out in giant letters on the ground outside the remote, typhoon-shattered Philippine village was clear enough: "Help Us. We Need Food". Easily ...
Aquino asserts control over typhoon relief effort
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine President Benigno Aquino has moved to assert himself as disaster manager-in-chief after criticism of his response to a devastating super typhoon, wit...
Cost from disasters quadrupled in 30 years: World Bank
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
The bill from natural and weather disasters is nearly $200 billion (150 billion euros) a year, four times higher than in the 1980s, the World Bank said on Monda...
Long road ahead for typhoon-hit Philippine businesses
Nov 17, 2013 (AFP)
A monster typhoon that laid waste to the central Philippines wiped out livelihoods as well as homes, leaving small traders and shopowners facing a long and peri...
Grieving typhoon survivors seek solace in Sunday prayer
Nov 17, 2013 (AFP)
Grieving survivors of a monster typhoon that smashed into the mainly Catholic Philippines flocked to shattered churches Sunday, as aid workers intensified effor...
China ready to send medical teams to Philippines
Nov 17, 2013 (AFP)
China says it is "ready" to send emergency medical personnel to the disaster-hit Philippines after its earlier pledges of financial and material aid were critic...
Japan sending almost 1,200 troops to typhoon-hit Philippines
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
Japan will send almost 1,200 troops to join relief efforts in the typhoon-ravaged Philippines along with three warships, 10 planes and six helicopters, in the s...
Global aid converges on Philippines eight days after Haiyan
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
Spearheaded by a US aircraft carrier group, foreign relief efforts have stepped up a gear in the storm-devastated Philippines eight days after Super Typhoon Hai...
Aid pushes through to Philippine typhoon survivors
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
The first food and medical aid began reaching isolated towns Saturday devastated by the typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines, as humanitarian groups...
Battered church offers shelter from the storm
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
Santo Nino church stands battered but tall in the ruins of its typhoon-shattered parish, a 124-year-old beacon of physical and spiritual sanctuary for a devout,...
Cuts could harm future US crisis response: marine head
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
Budget cuts could threaten the US military's ability to respond to future Philippines typhoon-style aid crises, the head of America's Marine Corps said Saturday...
Japan medics bring high-tech fixes to Philippines typhoon
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
Japanese medics working to help victims of the Philippines typhoon have deployed wireless mobile X-ray kits using tablet computers, a world first in a disaster ...
Frustrated families bring aid to Philippine typhoon survivors
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
As thousands queue to leave the devastation wreaked by the huge Philippines typhoon, a stream of passengers carrying food, medicine and water comes the other wa...
US carrier spearheads Philippine relief effort
Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)
US Navy helicopters and planes Friday launched non-stop aid flights to desperate survivors of a super typhoon in the Philippines that killed thousands, igniting...
App turns smartphone into personal panic button, alert system
Nov 15, 2013 (UPI)
A "panic button" smartphone app that can alert friends and family if you are in trouble or feel threatened has been released, its British developers say. PanicM...
Law and order prevailing in Philippine typhoon chaos
Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)
Fears that the dire situation among desperate typhoon survivors in the Philippines would tip into violence receded Friday, as relief operations scaled up and a ...
Typhoon: after battle to survive, the struggle to live
Nov 14, 2013 (AFP)
People who clung to power cables or cowered in concrete buildings as an apocalyptic storm blew through the Philippines may have thought they were lucky to live,...
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