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Search for survivors in Philippine villages hit by landslides
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
Tens of thousands fled their homes as the storm pummelled the disaster-prone region in recent days, dumping heavy rain that flooded houses, severed roads and kn...
German minister quits over family vacation after floods
Apr 11, 2022 (AFP)
Anne Spiegel said she had decided to step down "because of political pressure". "I am doing this to avert damage to the office, which is facing great political ...
After Covid blues, French saxophone maker hits the right note
Apr 10, 2022 (AFP)
Selmer experienced two difficult years after the pandemic began in 2020, the company's executive chairman Thierry Oriez tells AFP. "The Covid crisis affected us...
Ukraine says Russians stole lethal substances from Chernobyl
Apr 10, 2022 (AFP)
Moscow's forces seized the defunct power plant on the first day of their invasion of Ukraine on February 24. They occupied the highly radioactive zone for over ...
Australian flood disinformation sparks threats to pilots
Apr 08, 2022 (AFP)
Conspiracy theorists spread the false claims after weeks of torrential rains led to deadly east coast floods over the past two months, engulfing homes and sweep...
In tragic Bucha, people search for the missing
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
Tetiana Ustymenko knows the conclusion to her story. Her son and his two friends were gunned down in the street outside and she buried them in the garden of the...
Mines kill, injure more than 500 children in Iraq: UN
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
"More than 80 percent of children affected are boys," the rights groups UNICEF, the world body's children's agency, and the United Nations Mine Action Service (...
Red Cross says team held near Mariupol 'released'
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which for days has been trying to get a team to Mariupol to help provide safe passage for thousands of civilians s...
East Ukrainians twice in flight from Russian offensive
Apr 02, 2022 (AFP)
Kateryna Bosiachenko describes it like the end of innocence, her idyllic childhood marred by violence between "brother and brother". For Milan Zaitsev it "turne...
How would a nuclear winter impact food production
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
"In no way, shape or form had I thought that our work - 'Food Resilience in a Dark Catastrophe: A new Way of Looking at Tropical Wild Edible Plants' - would be ...
Russian soldiers likely exposed to Chernobyl radiation: Ukraine
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
Vehicles used by Russian forces would have raised radioactive dust clouds and soldiers also dug trenches in the most contaminated part of the site, Ukraine's nu...
Russians leave Chernobyl with Ukrainian troops as hostages: Kyiv
Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)
"As they ran away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Russian occupiers took members of the National Guard, whom they had held hostage since Feb 24, wit...
Russians start to withdraw from Chernobyl: US
Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)
Troops seized control of the Chernobyl site -- where radioactive waste is still stored -- on February 24, the first day of the invasion. "Chernobyl is (an) area...
New fires in Chernobyl exclusion zone: Ukraine deputy PM
Mar 28, 2022 (AFP)
"Significant fires have started in the exclusion zone, which can have very serious consequences," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Telegram late S...
Russia occupies Chernobyl staff town, Kyiv says
Mar 26, 2022 (AFP)
"I have been released. Everything is fine, as far as it is possible under occupation," Yuri Fomichev, mayor of Slavutych, told AFP by phone, after officials in ...
UN atomic watchdog alarm over shelling of Chernobyl staff town
Mar 24, 2022 (AFP)
"Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that Russian forces were shelling Ukrainian checkpoints in the city of Slavutych where man...
Kyiv says using AI, social media to identify slain Russians
Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)
"Today, we are using artificial intelligence to search social networks for profiles of Russian soldiers based on images of their bodies to report their deaths t...
Ukraine finally rotates workers at Chernobyl: IAEA
Mar 21, 2022 (AFP)
Ukraine told the International Atomic Energy Agency that around half of the staff were "finally" able to return to their homes on Sunday after working at the Ru...
Final victim found, Peru landslide toll hits eight
Mar 20, 2022 (AFP)
"With deep regret, I want to inform you that we have recovered the body of a child under three years of age in the town of Retamas," said Defense Minister Jose ...
Ukraine fears hundreds trapped in razed theatre as US presses China
Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)
Russian missiles struck an aircraft repair site close to Lviv's airport in Ukraine's far west, extending the war to a relatively unscathed region near the borde...
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