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Aid from two World Bank entities hit record $75 bn in 2022
Jan 03, 2023 (AFP)
The aid comes as countries emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic were hit by fallout from war in Ukraine and surging inflation, while climate change brought furth...
French mayor under fire for fighting Mont Blanc hikers
Jan 02, 2023 (AFP)
Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, has for years sounded the alarm against overcrowding on western Europe's highest peak, which is climbed eac...
Global alarm grows over China's Covid surge
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
Hospitals across China have been overwhelmed by an explosion of infections following Beijing's decision to lift strict rules that had largely kept the virus at ...
China Covid pivot sparks jitters worldwide
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
China late Monday scrapped quarantine for inbound travellers from January 8 onwards, dismantling the last remaining piece of its stringent zero-Covid policy and...
In some US zip codes, young men face more risk of firearm death than those deployed in recent wars
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
To better understand the magnitude of the gun violence crisis and put it in perspective, researchers at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania comp...
Eighteen trapped in Xinjiang gold mine collapse
Dec 25, 2022 (AFP)
A total of 40 people were working underground at the mine in Yining county, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the border with Kazakhstan, at the time of the ...
Malaysia campsite landslide search ends with 31 dead
Dec 24, 2022 (AFP)
According to police, 92 people, including dozens of children, were sleeping at the unlicensed campsite at an organic farm in Batang Kali, Selangor state on Dece...
Arizona to remove shipping container wall on US-Mexico border
Dec 22, 2022 (AFP)
The state's Republican Governor Doug Ducey spent $90 million of taxpayers' money lining up rusting boxes in what he said was a bid to stem the flow of people cr...
Malaysia landslide toll hits 26 after man found hugging dog
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
Seven people are still missing after a predawn landslide on Friday hit the site located at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor state, just ...
Malaysia landslide death toll rises to 25
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
Eight people are still missing after a predawn landslide on Friday hit the site located at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor state, just ...
Afghan survivors get new homes six months after deadly quake
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
More than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands made homeless after the 5.9-magnitude quake -- the deadliest in Afghanistan in nearly a quarter of a ce...
AFRL Guardian software team reports busy year
Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)
Guardian is one software application customized by AFRL's Information Directorate that facilitates disaster response and battlefield efforts. Its primary functi...
Thai navy hunts for 31 sailors after vessel sinks
Dec 19, 2022 (AFP)
The HTMS Sukhothai capsized late Sunday as it was patrolling the Gulf of Thailand, about 37 kilometres (22 miles) off the Southeast Asian nation's southeastern ...
'Be good ancestors,' youth activists tell ministers at UN nature talks
Dec 18, 2022 (AFP)
Here is what some had to say. - Prisca Daka - Prisca Daka, a 31-year-old from Zimbabwe now based in the US, is regional coordinator for Global Youth Biodiversit...
UN says funds for flood-hit Pakistan to run out in weeks
Dec 15, 2022 (AFP)
Pakistan was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains over the summer that put a third of the country underwater, damaged two million homes and killed more than 1,...
Fourth boy dies after UK frozen lake tragedy: police
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
The boys -- aged six, eight, 10 and 11 -- suffered cardiac arrest when they fell into the freezing water in Solihull on Sunday afternoon. West Midlands Police a...
Three boys die after falling into frozen lake in UK: police
Dec 12, 2022 (AFP)
"Three boys have tragically died after falling into the lake at Babbs Mill Park in Solihull yesterday afternoon," West Midlands Police said in a statement. The ...
ICEYE announces a framework contract with European Maritime Safety Agency
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
Among its many missions, the European Maritime Safety Agency, a European Union agency, provides technical expertise and operational assistance in reducing the r...
'Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,' warns UN chief
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
"With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction," he said, in a speech ahead of biodive...
The end is nigh? Climate, nuclear crises spark fears of worst
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
When the world rang in 2022, few would have expected the year to feature the US president speaking of the risk of doomsday, following Russia's threats to go nuc...
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