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Floods and landslides kill 14 in Nepal: police
Jul 07, 2024 (AFP)
Flooding in neighbouring India, as well as in downstream Bangladesh, has also caused widespread damage and impacted millions. "Police are working with other age...
'Not the end of the world', says data scientist on the big issues
Jul 07, 2024 (AFP)
This optimistic take on the state of affairs may be startling to some, but not Hannah Ritchie, a Scottish data scientist whose first book lets the facts speak f...
Some Caribbean islands destroyed by Hurricane Beryl: Red Cross
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said national teams had seen first hand the life-threatening impact Beryl's rains. The ...
What motivates people to watch footage of disasters and extreme weather?
Jul 02, 2024 (SPX)
With that has come heightened public interest, resulting in often dramatic footage being live-streamed on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Discord. Now, a ...
Midwife on the frontline of climate change on Pakistan's islands
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
Each week Neha Mankani comes by boat ambulance to Baba, an old fishing settlement and reportedly one of the world's most crowded islands with around 6,500 peopl...
Seven people killed including children in Kyrgyz mud slides
Jun 29, 2024 (AFP)
"Seven people died in the Nookat district" of southern Kyrgyzstan," said the Ministry of Emergency Situations, adding that five of the dead were minors born bet...
Advanced Tech for Crisis Response Unveiled by AHEAD Project
Jun 27, 2024 (SPX)
Users and Decision-Makers Involved Working closely with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK), the AHEAD team simulated...
Israeli women rush to buy guns in October 7 aftermath
Jun 22, 2024 (AFP)
According to security ministry data, there have been 42,000 applications by women for gun permits since the attack, with 18,000 approved, more than tripling the...
Egypt to prosecute travel agents over hajj 'fraud': government
Jun 22, 2024 (AFP)
The order came after countries whose citizens performed this year's hajj reported more than 1,100 deaths, many attributed to the oven-like summer heat in Saudi ...
US Supreme Court upholds ban on domestic abusers owning guns
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
It was the first gun case to come before the court -- where conservatives hold a 6-3 majority -- since a major decision issued in 2022 loosening gun restriction...
'Saudi state did not fail' after hundreds dead during hajj: official to AFP
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
"The state did not fail, but there was a misjudgement on the part of people who did not appreciate the risks," the official told AFP in the government's first c...
Iraqi Kurds mourn loved ones lost on Mediterranean migrant route
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
Khadija's nephew Rebwar, his sister-in-law Mojdeh and both their families were aboard a sailing boat that sank overnight between Sunday and Monday off the Itali...
IDF announces pause to daytime fighting along southern Gaza humanitarian corridor
Jun 17, 2024 (UPI)
In a statement posted online, the IDF announced "a local, tactical pause of military activity" will be in place from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily local time along the...
Space Force Assigns Ursa Space to Deliver Analytics to USINDOPACOM Post-Japanese Disaster
Jun 17, 2024 (SPX)
On January 1, 2024, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, causing severe damage in the Ishikawa Prefecture. On January 3, major tsunamis caused significant dama...
Sinkholes threaten luxury property in Chile's resort city
Jun 15, 2024 (AFP)
However, intense rains that have lashed Chile in recent days caused a giant sinkhole to open underneath this high-end property in the resort city of Vina del Ma...
Harris announces over $1.5 bn more US energy, humanitarian aid for Ukraine
Jun 15, 2024 (AFP)
Harris, who is attending a two-day peace summit in Switzerland's luxury Burgenstock mountain resort, said the aid included $500 million in new funding for energ...
US Supreme Court strikes down ban on gun 'bump stocks'
Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)
The case stems from the worst mass shooting in US history, in October 2017, when a man fired on a crowd attending an outdoor music concert in Las Vegas, killing...
Swiss pull out the stops for Ukraine summit security
Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)
With dozens of heads of state and government flying in for the gathering at the swanky Burgenstock resort overlooking Lake Lucerne, up to 4,000 troops are being...
Iraq counts cost of stray bullets fired in anger or joy
Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)
For some Iraqis, the tradition has been devastating, as have random bullets from sporadic gun battles in a society still awash with weapons after decades of war...
US ramps up Sudan aid, warns of risk of historic famine
Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)
The assistance will include food and drinking water, as well as malnutrition emergency screening and treatment for children. It comes as estimates say that five...
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