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Colombia hostilities disrupt 250,000 children's lives since 2013: report
Mar 19, 2016 (AFP)
Hostilities in Colombia have displaced or otherwise disrupted the lives of more than 250,000 children since peace talks began three years ago, the United Nation...
Prince Harry hopes to draw focus to quake-hit Nepal with visit
Mar 19, 2016 (AFP)
Britain's Prince Harry arrived in Nepal Saturday for a five-day visit and said he hopes to "shine a spotlight" on resilience of Nepali people recovering from la...
After lifejacket art and border piano recitel, Ai Weiwei gets migrant haircut
Mar 17, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Thursday sat for a haircut and trim from a migrant barber at the Greek border camp of Idomeni to once again draw attention...
US military personnel punished over Afghan hospital attack
Mar 17, 2016 (AFP)
US military personnel involved in a devastating air strike on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan have been or will be punished, officials ...
On patrol with Macedonian troops at Europe's closed gate
Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)
Macedonian soldiers trudge through torrential rain in a borderland once home to quiet vineyards, searching for migrants trying to sneak through a hole in the lo...
Environment behind nearly quarter of global deaths: WHO
Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)
One in four deaths worldwide are due to environmental factors like air, water and soil pollution, as well as unsafe roads and workplace stress, the World Health...
Japan, US, France to team up on Fukushima clean-up: official
Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)
The Japanese government will team up with experts in the United States and France to develop brand new technologies to collect melted fuel from crippled reactor...
Canada gives computers to Syrian refugees
Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)
Canada is providing 7,500 refurbished computers to Syrian refugees and hopes to give them a leg up in school and in job searches with new technology skills trai...
Cuban exodus leaves elderly behind
Mar 11, 2016 (AFP)
They have lived through dictatorship, the Cuban Revolution, the Missile Crisis, the Cold War, the near-starvation of the "special period" and rapprochement with...
Japan marks 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster
Mar 11, 2016 (AFP)
Japan pauses on Friday to mark five years since an offshore earthquake spawned a monster tsunami that left about 18,500 people dead or missing along its northea...
Fukushima mistakes linger as Japan marks 5th anniversary
Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)
The complacency and cosy relationships blamed for the Fukushima nuclear accident are still a problem in Japan, experts warn, even as the country faces the proba...
Five NATO ships in Aegean migrant mission
Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)
NATO now has five ships taking part in an unprecedented naval mission in the Aegean Sea to tackle people smugglers taking migrants from Turkey to Greece, the al...
Canada to takeover Haiti peacekeeping: media
Mar 09, 2016 (AFP)
Canada is planning to take over command of the UN stabilization mission in Haiti and replace the bulk of troops on the ground from Brazil with its own, accordin...
Among the believers: hope endures for MH370 relatives
Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)
Distrust, disbelief, despair: two years after their loved ones vanished, many Chinese relatives of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 still refuse to...
Web users lament China's 'forest of steel' after lift death
Mar 07, 2016 (AFP)
China's Internet users on Monday lamented the callousness of the country's teeming cities following the discovery of a woman's body a month after she was trappe...
Fukushima 'dark tourism' aids remembrance and healing
Mar 06, 2016 (AFP)
Shinichi Niitsuma enthusiastically shows visitors the attractions of the small town of Namie: its tsunami-hit coastline, abandoned houses and hills overlooking ...
Mutations, DNA damage seen in Fukushima forests: Greenpeace
Mar 04, 2016 (AFP)
Conservation group Greenpeace warned on Friday that the environmental impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis five years ago on nearby forests is just beginning ...
Quake-hit Nepal hands out free SIM cards to tourists
Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)
Nepal has begun distributing free mobile SIM cards to newly arrived visitors in a bid to attract tourists and allay safety fears after last year's devastating e...
Turkey denies it blocking NATO mission in Aegean
Mar 02, 2016 (AFP)
Turkey on Wednesday denied claims that it was blocking NATO vessels deployed in the Aegean Sea from launching a mission to help stop the flow of migrants from T...
NATO commander says Russia, Syria using migrant crisis as weapon
Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)
Top NATO General Philip Breedlove warned US lawmakers Tuesday that Russia is helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turn the refugee crisis into a "weapon" ag...
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