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One dead, 10 missing after cargo ship sinks off China
Jan 02, 2019 (AFP)
The cargo ship had 15 people on board when it sank at around 4:30 am (2030 GMT Tuesday), 90 nautical miles (167 kilometres) east of Taizhou City in Zhejiang pro...
Storms, fires, heat waves: Year's disasters linked to climate change
Jan 01, 2019 (UPI)
Increasingly, climate scientists are making the connection between climate change and record-setting weather events -- storms, droughts, floods, fires, heat wav...
Rescuers search for survivors in deadly Indonesian landslide
Jan 01, 2019 (AFP)
The landslide occurred shortly before sunset on Monday in West Java province. Search and rescue teams said they have found 15 people dead and are scouring the a...
Volunteers strive to stave off shutdown chaos at US parks
Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)
The 40-year-old businesswoman joined other members of the business community who benefit from park-related tourism, and together they performed some serious mai...
WFP accuses Houthi rebels of diverting humanitarian aid
Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)
A large part of the food aid meant to help residents in the capital Sanaa has not reached them, the Rome-based WFP said in a statement. Instead, reports had est...
69 migrants rescued off Malta: navy
Dec 30, 2018 (AFP)
The migrants sent out a distress call 117 nautical miles southwest of Malta and a Maltese navy vessel was sent to their aid, a statement said. Meanwhile, the Ge...
Brazil military's central role in Rio security nearing end
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
"We have fulfilled our mission," General Walter Souza Braga Netto, who led the Rio state security forces under a presidential decree since mid-February, said on...
Songs and toys for Indonesia's disaster-zone kids
Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)
Octavia was with dozens of parents lining the edge of a futsal pitch turned evacuation shelter in the town of Labuan Thursday, where relief workers played games...
Jail term demanded for ex-bosses over Fukushima nuclear crisis
Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)
Former chairman of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) Tsunehisa Katsumata and former vice presidents Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro are charged with professional negl...
Life and death choices for Indonesia tsunami victims
Dec 25, 2018 (AFP)
The 46-year-old Indonesian had just gone to sleep on Saturday evening when -- without warning -- a wall of water smashed into his house in Way Muli village on t...
SLSCO awarded $166.8M contract for border construction work
Dec 21, 2018 (UPI)
The $166.8 million deal, SLSCO's second with the U.S. Defense Department since mid-November, will fund the Galveston, Texas-based company's work on the border, ...
Gatekeeper at Japan's 'Suicide Forest' hopes music can save lives
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
The 60-year-old musician has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the vast forest's morbid reputation by reaching out to those who come to end their lives...
USNS Comfort returns to port from 11-week medical support mission
Dec 19, 2018 (UPI)
The docking is the end of the Comfort's 11-week medical mission to Central and South America in support of U.S. Southern Command's Enduring Promise initiative. ...
UK puts 3,500 troops on standby for no-deal Brexit
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
"What we are doing is putting contingency plans in place, and what we will do is have 3,500 service personnel held at readiness -- including regulars and reserv...
New foldable drone flies through narrow holes in rescue missions
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
To solve this problem, researchers from the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL created ...
Study finds pedestrians need 30 inches of space to avoid collisions
Dec 17, 2018 (UPI)
Using overheard sensors installed in a train station in Eindhoven, Netherlands, researchers analyzed more than 5 million pedestrian movements. Their analysis re...
The daring China rescues bringing Vietnam's trafficked girls home
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Filmed on a shaky camera phone, the successful rescue saved the Vietnamese teenagers from a brothel in China, where a huge surplus of males has fuelled the lucr...
Mothers of the Missing: Anguished search for Vietnam's kidnapped brides
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
The anguished mother showed everyone she met the snap of the 16-year-old friends Dua and Di in white and red velvet dresses, the words "Falling Into You" printe...
'Sold by my brother': the Mekong women pressed into marriage in China
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
Her brother ran away with $3,000 after cajoling the then 17-year-old to leave Cambodia to marry. Brokers split the remaining $7,000 paid by her Chinese husband,...
Nobel peace prize shines light on rape in conflict
Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)
Mukwege, dubbed "Doctor Miracle" for his work helping victims of sexual violence, and Murad, who has turned her experience into powerful advocacy for her Yazidi...
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