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White House calls Nashville school shooting 'heartbreaking'

Mar 27, 2023 (AFP)

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden had been briefed on the "heartbreaking news of another shooting of innocents" and she asked what Republicans were ...

Tornado survivors in US pick through debris, grateful to be alive

Mar 26, 2023 (AFP)

That's just one of many scenes of the utter devastation left by a tornado that ripped through the southern US state of Mississippi Friday night. And shell-shock...

UN's global disaster alert systems goal faces uphill climb

Mar 24, 2023 (AFP)

With a relatively low price tag of $3.1 billion, the UN's plan hopes to implement the simple principle of early warning systems: assess risks using meteorologic...

Quake-hit Syrians brace for subdued Ramadan

Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)

Now displaced in the rebel-held countryside of northern Syria, she places on the bare ground of her shelter a few bags of bulgur, dates, rice and sweets for bre...

Natural disasters, inflation upped insurers' costs in 2022: Swiss Re

Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)

Economic losses caused by natural disasters amounted to $275 billion in 2022, down 5.8 percent compared to the $303 billion in 2021, said the Zurich-based group...

Donor conference seeks to rally quake aid for Turkey, Syria

Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)

Last month's catastrophic 7.8-magnitude quake flattened entire cities, killing more than 50,000 people across southeastern Turkey and parts of war-torn Syria. M...

Syria GDP to shrink another 2.3% due to earthquake: World Bank

Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)

The earthquake and its aftershocks killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria, and displaced millions more. "The recent earthquake exacerbates the alrea...

UN 'survival guide' report an urgent warning on climate

Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)

In the final instalment of a major series of reports, delivered in a crucial decade in human history, the UN's climate advisory panel urged dramatic reductions ...

Donors vow 7 bn euros for Turkey, Syria quake aid

Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)

An EU-hosted conference sought to generate funds six weeks after the 7.8-magnitude quake that killed over 55,000 people across southeastern Turkey and parts of ...

Minnesota nuclear plant leaked radioactive water in November

Mar 17, 2023 (AFP)

Xcel Energy, operator of the nuclear plant northwest of Minneapolis in the Midwest state of Minnesota, did not say why it waited more than three months to ackno...

Fabled Antakya fears losing 'soul' in Turkish quake ruins

Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)

Last month's deadly 7.8-magnitude quake and its aftershocks came down hard on Antakya -- a fabled city near Syria once known as Antioch -- ravaging centuries of...

Greece shuts down popular beach over landslide fears

Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)

The ministry said it was acting on advice from the country's state earthquake protection authority (OASP), which inspected the Navagio beach on the Ionian islan...

Malawi urges global help after Cyclone Freddy kills 225

Mar 15, 2023 (AFP)

The storm returned to the African coast at the weekend for a second time in less than three weeks, leaving a trail of death and destruction, but it had largely ...

Biden to sign gun control measure at site of mass shooting

Mar 14, 2023 (AFP)

The White House said Biden, whose Democratic Party has not been able to overcome Republican resistance to more meaningful gun control laws, will "grieve with th...

No beds, little food await Malawi Cyclone survivors

Mar 14, 2023 (AFP)

Packing powerful winds and rain, the cyclone's return triggered floods and mudslides that washed away homes and buried their inhabitants Mayeso Chinthenga, 14, ...

UN investigators slam sluggish Syria quake aid

Mar 13, 2023 (AFP)

The Damascus government, other civil war factions, the international community and the United Nations itself hindered the delivery of urgent assistance to the q...

With bare hands, Malawians dig through mud for survivors

Mar 13, 2023 (AFP)

The impoverished township has been hit hard by the powerful storm, which triggered flooding and mudslides that swept away homes and buried their inhabitants. At...

Rescuers airlift residents from remote Australia floods

Mar 11, 2023 (AFP)

Police said helicopters and other aircraft had already flown out 53 vulnerable people over the past few days from the small community of Burketown in northeaste...

Lawyers search for justice in Turkish quake ruins

Mar 10, 2023 (AFP)

Using pens and coins to measure the thickness of supporting columns, Ahmet Kandemir and dozens of other Turkish Bar Association members are trying to preserve e...

Disaster to destination: Fukushima woos tourists with snow

Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)

It's a choice officials hope is becoming increasingly popular as they market the region's snow resorts and try to shed the stigma that lingers more than a decad...