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Rewire financial system to aid climate-hit nations: UN chief

Nov 07, 2022 (AFP)

The catastrophic flooding that put a third of Pakistan under water this year displaced millions of people, swamped swathes of key farmland, and destroyed homes,...

World risks 'collective suicide', UN chief warns climate summit

Nov 07, 2022 (AFP)

Nearly 100 heads of state and government are meeting for two days in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, facing calls to deepen emissions cuts and financ...

Poland installs fence on Russian border to deter migrants

Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)

Poland is fencing itself off from Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad out of concern that plans are afoot for another orchestrated influx of migrants into the Europ...

Iraq landslide disaster throws spotlight on informal shrines

Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)

The deadly disaster struck in August near Karbala when tonnes of soggy earth and rock collapsed onto the Shiite shrine Qattarat al-Imam Ali, dedicated to the im...

Mideast at risk of climate-induced food, water scarcity: report

Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)

Published only days ahead of the UN climate conference in Egypt, the report titled "Living on The Edge" focused on Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and...

Sinking Alexandria faces up to coming catastrophe

Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)

With its land sinking, and the sea rising due to global warming, the metropolis Alexander the Great founded on the Nile Delta is teetering on the brink. Even by...

Rescuers search for bodies as Philippines storm death toll hits 101

Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)

Just over half of the fatalities were from a series of flash floods and landslides unleashed by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which destroyed villages on the southern ...

A 'rumbling' in the dark: Philippine mum recounts landslide escape

Oct 29, 2022 (AFP)

Desperate to find shelter before tropical storm Nalgae hit, she and others ran uphill in the dark, as boulders, mud and debris rumbled down the mountain in a ma...

A decade post-Sandy, New York vulnerable as ever

Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)

Then Sandy made landfall on October 29 of that year, leaving well over 100 people dead in the United States, including 43 New York City residents. It caused $19...

Ten years after Sandy, Atlantic City still suffering floods

Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)

But in certain neighborhoods, flooded streets have become routine. North of the city dubbed the Vegas of the East Coast, a new stretch of boardwalk is protected...

Berlin summit tackles 'generational task' of rebuilding Ukraine

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

Scholz as current head of the G7 club of wealthy nations said Ukraine could count on the support of the international community for decades to come as it seeks ...

Rebuilding Ukraine a 'generational task' that begins now: Scholz

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

Scholz as current head of the G7 club of wealthy nations said Ukraine could count on the support of the international community for decades to come as it seeks ...

Climate change puts 1 bn children at 'extreme risk': watchdog

Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)

The KidsRights index, based on figures supplied by UN agencies, also said more than one-third of the world's children, some 820 million, were currently exposed ...

Hurricane Ian blows Swiss Re into loss

Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)

The Swiss reinsurance giant gave a preliminary estimate of total insured losses from the hurricane which ravaged Cuba and the southern United States at $50-65 b...

New landslide in Venezuela kills three people

Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)

"I am informed that there are three dead in El Castano, it was a mudslide that came from the mountain," said Maduro, referring to a neighborhood in Maracay, the...

Changing climate claims railways, houses and beaches in California

Oct 16, 2022 (AFP)

"Every day I come here and watch this, and it makes me want to cry," the 68-year-old tells AFP on rail tracks he crosses to go surfing. Powerful waves wash in f...

Denmark paves the way for 'loss and damage' climate aid

Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)

It might just end up helping open a fresh flow of aid to the world's most vulnerable countries. Danish Development Cooperation Minister Flemming Moller told the...

Death toll rises to 50 in Venezuela landslide

Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)

"So far we officially have 50 people who unfortunately lost their lives and (their bodies) have been handed over to their relatives," Interior Minister Remigio ...

Venezuelan town buries its dead after landslide

Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)

Gravediggers have had their hands full at the cemetery of Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people laid to waste by a torrent of mud, stones and trees that fo...

Half the world unprepared for disasters: UN

Oct 13, 2022 (AFP)

In a fresh report, the UN agencies for weather and for disaster risk reduction found countries with poor early warning systems on average see eight times greate...