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'I'm ok': Philippine typhoon survivors write letters to loved ones
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
Photos of the touching missives were posted Monday on the Facebook page of Dinagat Islands Governor Arlene Bag-ao, who has been able to get online during trips ...
US cities remain locked in a grim spiral of record homicides
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
A convergence of factors is to blame, according to experts interviewed by AFP: the painful reverberations of the coronavirus and of the varied traumas it trigge...
More than 80 reported dead in Philippines typhoon: officials
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
More than 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the archipelago. The storm knocked o...
'Faith is solid': Catholic devotees pray in typhoon-hit Philippine city
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
Hundreds of devotees flocked to the San Nicolas de Tolentino Cathedral for the pre-dawn service on Saturday as part of the traditional Christmas season celebrat...
In Tennessee town, spirited cleanup follows tornado's rage
Dec 17, 2021 (AFP)
"It's devastated the town" in the rural northeast pocket of Tennessee, the 68-year-old said. And while there have been no known Dresden deaths, compared with do...
As aid reaches tornado-hit Kentucky towns, rural pockets left out
Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)
His roof was torn off, walls blown out, and belongings mostly sucked away by the deadliest storm in Kentucky history, leaving him reeling and unsure of the next...
Tunisia navy rescues 78 migrants, one dead
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
The migrants, mostly Bangladeshis and Egyptians aged from 12-45, had set off the previous night from Abu Kammash just across the border in neighbouring Libya ne...
Connecting online, tornado victims track down lost treasures
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
But with the help of strangers, they tracked down photographs of their daughter's graduation -- via social media groups which thousands are using to reconnect s...
Natural catastrophes caused $250 bn in damage in 2021: Swiss Re
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
For the insurance industry alone, "extreme weather events... including a deep winter freeze, floods, severe thunderstorms, heatwaves and a major hurricane, resu...
Crews begin 'Herculean' task of removing tornado debris in Kentucky
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
"Total devastation," said Ashley McKnight, a 41-year-old schoolteacher, pointing to the remains of her neighbors' homes in Dawson Springs. State Governor Andy B...
After deadly tornadoes, stricken Kentucky town organizes to help their own
Dec 13, 2021 (AFP)
The small town in southern Kentucky is part of the "Bible Belt," a swathe of the southern United States where life centers on the church. On Sunday, residents m...
Highway delays can cost $8 million to $250 million in a single day
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
To assist policymakers in mitigating the impacts of infrastructure failures due to disasters like extreme storms and cyberattacks, Unal Tatar of the University ...
At UN, a call to recognize climate change causes conflict
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
President Mohamed Bazoum made the appeal at a meeting of the council, where his country holds the presidency in December. Niger hopes for a vote on a draft reso...
More migrants flown back to Iraq from Belarus
Dec 07, 2021 (AFP)
It will be followed by the first repatriation flight to Damascus that will take Syrian nationals home on Wednesday. Thousands of migrants have been camped in Be...
Death toll from Kenya bus accident rises to 31
Dec 05, 2021 (AFP)
The bus was taking a church choir and other revellers to a wedding in Kitui County on Saturday when it keeled over and sank beneath fast-flowing waters as the d...
How far is Fukushima nuclear accident contaminated water from us?
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
To solve this problem, a team from Tsinghua University, China, developed analysis models from both macroscopic and microscopic perspectives, to simulate the dif...
Study: People choose to learn about health, world news based on feelings
Dec 03, 2021 (UPI)
Based on an analysis of more than 500 participants, most people fall into one of three "information-seeking" categories. These are people who consider the impac...
Twitter is the social network most resistant to conspiracy theory beliefs
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
A recent study, published in the open access journal New Media and Society and authored by a researcher from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) working w...
UN says aid needs will surge in 2022 amid pandemic, conflict
Dec 02, 2021 (AFP)
The United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA estimated that 274 million people worldwide would need some form of emergency assistance next year, up 17 percent o...
EU plans 300 bn euros in development aid to rival China
Dec 01, 2021 (AFP)
"Global Gateway will aim at mobilising investments of up to 300 billion euros between 2021 and 2027... bringing together resources of the EU, member states, Eur...
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