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Rise and fall of agrarian states influenced by climate volatility
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
Climate variability is one of the major forces in the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru, according to a team of researchers looking at both cl...
Family of El Faro victim launches $100 million lawsuit
Oct 14, 2015 (AFP)
The family of a crew member of "El Faro," a cargo ship that vanished during Hurricane Joaquin with 33 people aboard, filed a $100 million lawsuit Wednesday agai...
Man survives on ants for six days in remote Australia
Oct 13, 2015 (AFP)
A man missing for six days in a remote Australian desert in searing heat without water was found Tuesday after surviving by eating black ants, police said. Reg ...
Drama therapy breaks new ground for Iraq's teenage girls
Oct 12, 2015 (AFP)
Haneen, who has spent most of her life in orphanages, says she used to stay weeks locked up in herself, aimlessly eating, watching TV and sleeping through each ...
LORELEI Imagines Rapid Automated Language Toolkit
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
Understanding local languages is essential for effective situational awareness in military operations, and particularly in humanitarian assistance and disaster ...
New warehouse blast hits Tianjin: China state media
Oct 12, 2015 (AFP)
A warehouse explosion hit Tianjin Monday night, Chinese state media reported, just two months after a massive blast in the eastern port city left more than 160 ...
New tough-talking PM tasked with unifying quake-hit Nepal
Oct 11, 2015 (AFP)
Nepal's new prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli, tasked with rebuilding the quake-hit country and ending bitter constitutional protests, spent years in jail for tryi...
Hurricane Joaquin: Millions could lose power
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
Power outage forecasts by researchers at the University of Michigan and Texas A and M University show that depending on where hurricane Joaquin makes landfall i...
Obama apologizes to MSF for deadly Kunduz air strike
Oct 07, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologized to Doctors without Borders (MSF) for a deadly US air strike on an Afghan hospital, as the medical charity dema...
US Coast Guard to suspend search for 'El Faro' survivors
Oct 07, 2015 (AFP)
The US Coast Guard said Wednesday it will suspend its search for survivors of "El Faro," a cargo ship believed to have sunk in a storm in the Bahamas with 33 cr...
America's children in crossfire of gun control debate
Oct 07, 2015 (AFP)
Children as young as 12, eight and even five months old were shot dead in recent days in the United States -- deaths that highlight the dangers of easy access t...
Merkel declares EU asylum rules 'obsolete' as navies tackle smugglers
Oct 07, 2015 (AFP)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday Europe needs to rewrite its "obsolete" asylum rules to tackle the migrant crisis as European warships went into a...
No foreign aid agencies left in Afghanistan's Kunduz: UN
Oct 06, 2015 (AFP)
All international aid organisations have left the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz following a US air strike on a hospital run by medical charity MSF and amid he...
Finding El Faro survivors less and less likely: US Coast Guard
Oct 06, 2015 (AFP)
The US Coast Guard pressed a search Tuesday for survivors of the El Faro cargo ship sinking, but warned that "every passing hour" reduced the likelihood of find...
US boy, 11, kills girl, eight, over puppy
Oct 05, 2015 (AFP)
A simple childish fight over a puppy led an 11-year-old boy to shoot and kill his eight-year-old neighbor in the US state of Tennessee, the girl's grieving moth...
Pentagon chief arrives in Europe amid Syrian, Afghan crises
Oct 04, 2015 (AFP)
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Madrid on Sunday, beginning a European tour amid alarm over Russian bombardments in Syria and the refugee crisis s...
UN slams 'inexcusable' Afghan hospital air strike that killed 19
Oct 04, 2015 (AFP)
A suspected US air strike on a charity hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed 19 people Saturday, a bombardment US President Barack Obama said was a "trag...
Japan commits $1.5bn for Middle East refugees, peace
Sep 29, 2015 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe committed $1.5 billion Tuesday to help refugees from Syria and Iraq, and to support peace building efforts in the wider Middl...
Avoid 'another Rwanda,' urges Syrian opposition figure
Sep 28, 2015 (AFP)
The head of Syria's main opposition National Coalition went to the United Nations Monday to urge the international community to prevent his war-torn country fro...
China leader throws support behind UN peacekeeping
Sep 28, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping promised support Monday for a permanent UN police squad and African peacekeeping as he vowed a peaceful rise for the Asian power. P...
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