DISASTER MANAGEMENT - RUSSO DAILY

World leaders meet on disaster management in Japan

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Politicians and aid officials gathered on Japan's quake- and tsunami-hit coast Tuesday to discuss what lessons can be learned from disasters. Pre-emptive measur...

S. Korea labels chemical leak area 'disaster' zone

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

The South Korean government on Monday designated an area hit by a toxic chemical leak as a "special disaster" zone, after more than 3,000 people were treated fo...

All 18 children confirmed dead in China landslide

Oct 05, 2012 (AFP)

Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent dead...

Hong Kong seeks answers after deadly ferry crash

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

Hong Kong investigators on Wednesday examined the wreck of a boat that sank in a collision which killed 38 people, as the city sought answers to its worst marit...

Hong Kong mourns victims of boat tragedy

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

Flags flew at half mast and leaders observed three minutes of silence Thursday as Hong Kong mourned the 38 victims of a ferry collision that sent shockwaves thr...

18 school children buried in China landslide

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

Eighteen primary school pupils were buried Thursday when a landslide struck their school in a southwestern Chinese region that was hit by deadly earthquakes las...

Argentine police protest after giant pay error

Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)

Thousands of police took to the streets across Argentina on Wednesday after their pay was slashed by 30 to 60 percent in what the government said was an adminis...

Twenty-five killed in Hong Kong ferry collision: official

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

Twenty-five people were killed and dozens injured when two passenger boats collided and one sunk off Hong Kong late Monday, officials said. The passengers of th...

World facing unprecedented refugee crisis: UNHCR

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday that a surge in the number of refugees around the world was causing a crisis that was unprecedented in re...

Libyans surrender hundreds of weapons to army

Sep 29, 2012 (AFP)

Libyans turned over hundreds of weapons at collection points in the capital and the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday following rallies which called for disa...

Chinese crew rescued as boat burns in Japan

Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)

A dozen Chinese crew members were rescued by Japan's coastguard when their Panama-registered boat caught fire in a Japanese bay, an official said Friday. Televi...

Seven Britons, five Chinese dead in Nepal air crash: police

Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)

Seven Britons and five Chinese are among the dead in a plane crash Friday on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu which killed all 19 on board, accor...

Satellites to the rescue: Disaster monitoring network extends its services to all

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

Building on a decade of success in making satellite data available to users for disaster response, the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' has ope...

EU grants Pakistan flood, unrest aid

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

The European Commission said Thursday it will release another 15 million euros in aid ($19 million) to Pakistan where tens of thousands of people are affected b...

Outside View: The militarization of aid

Sep 27, 2012 (UPI)

Although aid and the military are often seen as being diametrically opposed, the skill sets and approaches that both efforts require for success are like a hors...

Sixteen hospitalised in chemicals leak in Slovakia

Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)

Sixteen people were hospitalised for exposure to poisonous gasses in a leak Wednesday at a former chemical plant in Slovakia's capital Bratislava, the police sa...

Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving. The prototyp...

EU offers Italy 670 mn euros in quake aid

Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)

The European Commission offered Wednesday 670 million euros ($880 million) to help reconstruction efforts after two powerful earthquakes in northern Italy cause...

Norway supplies $168M for famine relief

Sep 12, 2012 (UPI)

Norway said this week it is donating $168 million to help finance efforts to relieve the food crisis in North Africa's semi-arid Sahel region. Norway's donation...

Haunting 'Land of Hope' part shot on location in Fukushima

Sep 10, 2012 (AFP)

Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono pulled audiences this week into a family's suffering in the wake of a nuclear meltdown, showing haunting real scenes of Fukushima i...