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French state joins cash lifeline for Olympics tech firm Atos
Apr 09, 2024 (AFP)
Atos has insisted its financial woes will not disrupt its operations during the Games, for which it has been the IT partner since 2002. This year it is managing...
Taiwan's search dogs win hearts in search for quake victims
Apr 08, 2024 (AFP)
At least 13 people were killed and more than 1,140 injured by the magnitude-7.4 quake that struck the island on Wednesday, with strict building codes and widesp...
Australia to appoint special adviser on probe over Gaza aid workers deaths
Apr 07, 2024 (AFP)
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants detailed answers as to how aid workers from the US-based World Central Kitchen were killed by Israeli forces last Monday. ...
Taiwan helicopters pluck quake-stranded tourists to safety
Apr 06, 2024 (AFP)
At least 13 people were killed and more than 1,100 injured by the magnitude 7.4 quake that struck the island on Wednesday, with strict building codes and widesp...
Afghan kids learn in makeshift schools six months after major quake
Apr 06, 2024 (AFP)
Hundreds of schools are still damaged since a series of strong quakes jolted Afghanistan's Herat province in October, with many students returning to lessons in...
Taiwan rescuers free nine from cave after quake
Apr 05, 2024 (AFP)
The official death toll from Wednesday's magnitude-7.4 quake still stood at 10, but the government in the hardest-hit area of Hualien county said two more peopl...
Russian drone strike kills Ukrainian first responders working at scene of earlier attack
Apr 04, 2024 (UPI)
Three of the dead were emergency services personnel killed in a secondary strike as they searched for survivors beneath the rubble at the site of the initial dr...
Spanish NGO halts Gaza aid work over deadly attack
Apr 04, 2024 (AFP)
Open Arms, whose ship returned to the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Wednesday, condemned the deaths of the World Central Kitchen workers as "an incomprehensible ac...
Helicopter plucks miners to safety as Taiwan searches for missing after quake
Apr 04, 2024 (AFP)
Nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in Wednesday's magnitude-7.4 quake, but strict building regulations and widespread public disaster awareness...
Rethinking climate communication as study shows impact of negative messaging
Apr 03, 2024 (SPX)
This significant research initiative spanned 63 countries, engaging 59,000 participants in its survey to inform the app's development. Among the nations, Norway...
Eight missing after cargo ship collides with boat near China's Hainan
Apr 03, 2024 (AFP)
The SITC Danang container ship, which sails under a Panamanian flag, collided with a fishing vessel around 15 minutes after midnight (1615 GMT), state broadcast...
Netanyahu response to aid worker deaths 'insufficient': Spain PM
Apr 03, 2024 (AFP)
"We are waiting for a much more detailed clarification of what the causes have been, bearing in mind that the Israeli government knew about the actions and the ...
Satellite data reveals subsidence risk for a third of China's urban population
Apr 02, 2024 (SPX)
In a study published in Science, Prof Robert Nicholls from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA and Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei from Virginia Tech...
'Dust and scorpions': Inside Iraq's crumbling school system
Apr 02, 2024 (AFP)
"We close the school when it rains because water leaks through the roof," said Oudai Abdallah, director of a public elementary school in Bani Saad district, 40 ...
Japan, China experts discuss Fukushima water release
Mar 31, 2024 (AFP)
Japan and China have been at loggerheads over the discharge of the wastewater, which was used to cool the reactors after the 2011 meltdown. Japan insists it has...
Baltimore bridge collapse may see biggest marine insurance payout: report
Mar 28, 2024 (AFP)
"It feels like a very substantial loss, potentially the largest-ever marine insured loss, but not outside parameters that we plan for," chairman Bruce Carnegie-...
Lessons from Fukushima: Prepare for the unlikely
Mar 26, 2024 (SPX)
A new study synthesizes information from multidisciplinary sources to understand how the Fukushima Dai'ichi disaster unfolded, and points to the importance of m...
Rafah displaced shiver as thunder and rain lash tent camp
Mar 19, 2024 (AFP)
The storm fell overnight Monday to Tuesday in the southernmost Gaza Strip city, adding to the anguish of Palestinians who fled the war between Hamas and Israel,...
Critical aid, food delivered by sea to starving families in war-torn northern Gaza
Mar 19, 2024 (UPI)
World Central Kitchen, a U.S. nonprofit, announced the shipment Tuesday of rice, flour, vegetables and proteins to communities where access has been "highly res...
Syria's Al-Hol camp: child inmates and false identities
Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)
Run by US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), its population spiked at more than 70,000 as the coalition began tightening its grip on the last IS...
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