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Indian police arrest politicians over communal violence
Sep 18, 2013 (UPI)
Police in Uttar Pradesh were rounding up 16 people, including politicians, after an Indian court ordered their arrest for allegedly inciting deadly communal vio...
Flooded Acapulco hit by looting as tourists airlifted
Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)
Mexican military and commercial flights airlifted hundreds of tourists stranded in the flooded resort of Acapulco Tuesday, where thousands of looters ransacked ...
Senate Democrats eye new gun laws, action unlikely
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
US Democrats demanded a renewed gun debate Tuesday following the Washington Navy Yard shooting but admitted there was not enough support yet for new legislation...
Japan to boost surveys off Fukushima: report
Sep 14, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's nuclear authority plans to conduct radiation contamination surveys at 600,000 points on the seabed off the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, up from 200...
Workshop report explores use of mass collaboration in disaster management
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
The growing use of social media and other mass collaboration technologies is opening up new opportunities in disaster management efforts, but is also creating n...
Iranian telegraph operator, first to propose earthquake early warning system
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
In 1909, an Iranian telegraph operator living in the remote desert town of Kerman noticed an unusual movement of the magnetic needle of his telegraph instrument...
New technique to assess cost issues from major flood damage
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
A new approach to calculating the cost of damage caused by flooding is to be presented at the International Conference of Flood Resilience: Experiences in Asia ...
Australia reiterates tough asylum boat policy
Sep 10, 2013 (UPI)
Australia's new government said it will make good on its promise to crack down on asylum seeker boat arrivals and people smugglers. Prime Minister-elect Tony Ab...
Niger asks for foreign help for flood victims
Sep 06, 2013 (AFP)
Niger's government on Friday launched an appeal for "international solidarity" to help victims of recent floods that claimed more than two dozen lives and force...
Olympics: Tokyo 2020 is a bid in the shadow of Fukushima
Sep 04, 2013 (AFP)
The battered nuclear plant at Fukushima, where radioactive water is leaking into the ocean, hangs over Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Olympic Games. The shadow it cas...
Malaysia arrests hundreds of suspected illegals
Sep 03, 2013 (UPI)
Malaysia's Immigration Department arrested 2,433 people during a major swoop across the country to flush out illegal immigrants, Bernama news agency reported. H...
Italy says Syria crisis to worsen refugee problem
Sep 02, 2013 (AFP)
Italy warned Monday the European Union lacks an adequate approach for the refugee problem that will worsen in case of an international intervention in Syria. "I...
Australian police arrest suspected people smugglers
Aug 30, 2013 (UPI)
Australia's national police force arrested five suspected people smugglers in coordinated dawn raids in four states. The five men, from Afghanistan, Pakistan an...
U.N. condemns Australia's treatment of refugees
Aug 23, 2013 (UPI)
The United Nations Human Rights Committee said Australia must release 46 asylum seekers who have been held for more than four years and compensate them for thei...
Disaster-weary Philippines mops up after deadly floods
Aug 22, 2013 (AFP)
Disaster-weary Philippine residents mopped up Thursday after four days of torrential rain that officials said had killed 17 people and forced more than half a m...
Russia convicts officials of 2012 floods negligence
Aug 21, 2013 (AFP)
A Russian court on Wednesday convicted four former local officials of negligence during floods last year that killed more than 170 people, sentencing three of t...
Raytheon provides public safety a bridge from land mobile radios to smartphones and tablets
Aug 21, 2013 (SPX)
Raytheon will demonstrate the integration of commercial smartphones and tablets with the INTEROP-7000 Suite at APCO International 2013 in Anaheim, Calif. Develo...
Mutualink Unveils Google Glass for Public Safety
Aug 21, 2013 (SPX)
At APCO 2013 Mutualink will demonstrate real-time multimedia interoperability for public safety using Google Glass. The demonstration will utilize Mutualink's a...
Protesters blast Russia's undocumented immigrants detention camps
Aug 15, 2013 (UPI)
Russian human rights activists picketed immigration service offices in St. Petersburg this week, protesting the holding of migrant workers in detention camps. T...
Fukushima operator pumps out toxic groundwater
Aug 10, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of the crippled Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has started pumping out radioactive groundwater to reduce leakage into the Pacific ocean. ...
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