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U.S. condemns Houthis' detention of U.N. workers in Yemen
Jun 12, 2024 (UPI)
A total of 13 Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained over the last week by the Iran proxy militia that has been attacking vessels transi...
In shadow of war, Lebanese find respite on southern beach
Jun 12, 2024 (AFP)
Life goes on but "the children are frightened", the 60-year-old told AFP from the beach in Tyre, about 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) from the Israel-Lebanon fronti...
Suspect arrested over stabbing of four Americans in China
Jun 11, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing described the attack that took place on Monday as an "isolated" incident, while the White House said it was "deeply concerned" by the stabbing. The four...
Body recovery 'called off' at Papua New Guinea landslide site
Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)
"All efforts to recover bodies have been called off because of the danger", Major Joe Aku told AFP, citing the risk of further landslides. "Recovery is non-nego...
Scholz set to visit German flood region
Jun 03, 2024 (AFP)
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes over the weekend in the southern regions of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg. The situation continued to ...
Indonesia ready to send peacekeepers, medical staff to Gaza
Jun 01, 2024 (AFP)
US President Joe Biden announced the Israeli roadmap to permanent peace in Gaza on Friday, as Israeli troops pushed into central Rafah despite international obj...
Foreign legion 'proud' to provide security at Paris Olympics
May 31, 2024 (AFP)
Members of the storied foreign-fighter unit huddle on a military base in southern France, located hundreds of kilometres from Paris' cafe-lined streets where th...
Egypt's Sisi calls to ensure Gazans not 'forcibly displaced'
May 30, 2024 (AFP)
"I... call on the international community to immediately provide for long-term humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip and to end the Israeli siege," Sisi tol...
UN refugee chief blasts Security Council as millions displaced by war
May 30, 2024 (AFP)
"Next month, we will update that figure. It will be higher," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the Security Council, which he lamented for i...
Aid reaches Papua New Guinea landslide site
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
Papua New Guinea's government estimates that as many as 2,000 people may be buried underneath a massive landslide that struck a thriving highland settlement in ...
Xi says China 'deeply pained' by 'severe' Gaza situation
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
The talks between Xi, Sisi and other Arab dignitaries in China this week are aimed at building consensus between Beijing and the Arab nations, as well as presen...
Doubts raised over Papua New Guinea landslide toll
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
As Prime Minister James Marape told parliament an "initial estimation" that "over 2,000 people would have perished", questions were being asked privately about ...
Pier damage forces suspension of US aid shipments to Gaza: Pentagon
May 28, 2024 (AFP)
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters high seas and a North African weather system had caused a section of the pier to come away on Tuesd...
Tribal violence, rain and mosquitoes: making sense of the PNG landslide
May 28, 2024 (AFP)
One of the most disaster-prone nations in the world, Papua New Guinea occupies a slice of the southwest Pacific that is frequently battered by earthquakes, floo...
More survivors 'unlikely' from Papua New Guinea landslide
May 28, 2024 (AFP)
Some 2,000 people are feared buried by a massive landslide that entombed a remote highland community in the early hours of May 24. For days, locals have been he...
Papua New Guinea reports more than 2,000 people buried in landslide
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
The once-bustling hillside village in Enga province was almost wiped out when a chunk of Mount Mungalo collapsed in the early hours of Friday morning, smotherin...
Rescuers fear new slips at deadly Papua New Guinea landslide
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
A once-bustling remote hillside village in Enga province was almost wiped out when a chunk of Mount Mungalo collapsed in the early hours of Friday morning, bury...
UN chief says 'obscene' that small islands pay climate consequences
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
"Your unique geography puts you at the mercy of climate chaos, rising sea levels and land degradation," Guterres said at the opening of the fourth Small Island ...
Tribal violence hinders access to PNG landslide: over 670 dead
May 26, 2024 (AFP)
A once-bustling hillside village in Enga province was almost completely obliterated when the landslide struck in the early hours of Friday morning, burying scor...
More than 670 estimated dead in Papua New Guinea landslide: UN
May 26, 2024 (AFP)
The once-bustling hillside village in Enga province was almost completely obliterated when the landslide struck in the early hours of Friday morning, burying sc...
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