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'Embrace discomfort' to save planet says N Macedonia pioneer
Oct 21, 2023 (AFP)
Nearly 10 years later, Ackov has channelled his burnout into a fully-fledged mission to educate people about living closer to nature. His home, constructed enti...
World leaders at Cairo Peace Summit call for civilian safety in Gaza
Oct 21, 2023 (UPI)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is hosting the summit, which is being attended by Jordan's King Abdullah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as well a...
'Don't send us back', scared Afghan quake survivors ask
Oct 20, 2023 (AFP)
Negar is one of thousands who have fled their homes after a series of earthquakes with magnitudes measuring between 4.2 and 6.3 jolted western Afghanistan this ...
Deal struck to open Gaza border for aid
Oct 19, 2023 (AFP)
After face-to-face talks in Israel and intense telephone diplomacy with Egypt, Biden said a limited number of trucks would be allowed to cross the shuttered Raf...
Biden: Egypt agrees to allow aid into Gaza
Oct 19, 2023 (UPI)
The American president announced the development at Ramstein Air Base in Germany en route back to the United States following a day trip to Tel Aviv where one o...
UN's Guterres denounces 'collective punishment' of Palestinians
Oct 18, 2023 (AFP)
Speaking at an economic forum in China, Guterres condemned the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,400 people as "acts of terror" that cou...
Palestinian refugees remain cut off from pile of aid at Gaza's border crossing with Egypt
Oct 17, 2023 (UPI)
The situation at the Rafah crossing was growing increasingly desperate as massive civilian crowds were still under threat of falling bombs while unable to acces...
Egypt-Gaza border crossing to reopen as aid waits to enter enclave
Oct 15, 2023 (UPI)
The border crossing is essentially the only exit for Palestinians from Gaza and the only entrance for humanitarian supplies, but it has been closed for much of ...
Space set to keep people safer during emergencies
Oct 13, 2023 (ESA)
Using synthetic aperture radar technology enables ICEYE's satellites to see through the smoke while the fires are still burning, so emergency teams can pinpoint...
Nepal quake sparks revival of traditional craft skills
Oct 12, 2023 (AFP)
Carpenter Dinesh Tamang is one of hundreds of craftspeople who learned a new trade in the quake's aftermath. "I got a chance to work in reconstruction projects,...
Brazil's Lula calls to protect children in Israel-Gaza war
Oct 11, 2023 (AFP)
"Children must never be held hostage, anywhere in the world," Lula wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Hamas needs to free the Israeli children who were kidnapped fr...
Chinese scientists join Fukushima water review
Oct 11, 2023 (AFP)
Experts from China will join those from Canada, South Korea and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in collecting samples of water, sediment and ...
Afghan rescuers still digging as hope fades for quake villagers
Oct 10, 2023 (AFP)
Volunteers have worked non-stop with spades and pickaxes in Herat province since Saturday's deadly magnitude 6.3 quake struck -- followed by a series of powerfu...
'Broken in two': Libya flood survivors grapple with mental health
Oct 06, 2023 (AFP)
Extreme rainfall from hurricane-strength Storm Daniel caused two upstream dams to burst on September 10, sending flood waters that have been likened to a tsunam...
Tens of millions of children uprooted by climate disasters: UNICEF
Oct 06, 2023 (AFP)
In a sweeping report on the issue, the United Nations agency detailed the heart-wrenching stories of some of the children affected, and co-author Laura Healy to...
Second round of Fukushima wastewater release begins
Oct 05, 2023 (AFP)
The discharge, a small portion of the 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater built up since a tsunami struck the facility in 2011, began at 10:18 am (0118 GMT), a sp...
Second round of Fukushima wastewater release begins: operator
Oct 05, 2023 (AFP)
The water discharge began at 10:18 am (0118 GMT), a TEPCO spokesman told AFP. It follows the first discharge on August 24, when Japan began releasing some of th...
Biden says 'can't stop' building of more Mexico border wall
Oct 05, 2023 (AFP)
Biden said "no" when asked if he thought barriers worked, despite his own Department of Homeland Security saying there was an "acute and immediate need" to tack...
Humans increasingly settling in high-risk flood zones, study warns
Oct 04, 2023 (AFP)
The research, led by a World Bank economist, warns that settlement growth in flood zones has vastly outpaced growth in safe areas since 1985. "In a time when hu...
Libya flood relief hampered by 'turf wars' and division
Oct 03, 2023 (AFP)
The aftermath of the disaster on September 10-11 has seen the rival camps in the east and west of the war-scarred country both announce their own plans for a re...
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