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Taking greater role, China leader pledges $2 bln to poor
Sep 26, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday pledged $2 billion for a new development fund for poor countries on a UN visit showcasing Beijing's growing global role...
No relief for Nepal quake victims as $4.1bn fund in limbo
Sep 25, 2015 (AFP)
Hundreds of thousands of quake victims in Nepal are unable to start rebuilding their homes as winter approaches because a $4.1 billion reconstruction fund canno...
Pomp and poverty: Pope Francis sees two sides of Washington
Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)
Pope Francis tasted two extremes of Washington on Thursday, going from the pomp of a speech to Congress to the gut-punch of a meal for the homeless. In both ven...
Pope urges US Congress to action on refugees, climate
Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)
Pope Francis on Thursday urged the US Congress to help those fleeing war and poverty, and work to combat climate change, in a historic address to lawmakers that...
Clean-up of toxic pool in Tianjin complete: Xinhua
Sep 23, 2015 (AFP)
Workers have completed the removal of a large pool of contaminated water that formed after deadly explosions in the port city of Tianjin last month, state media...
Dutch team launches free 'Airbnb' site for refugees
Sep 22, 2015 (AFP)
Three young Dutch start-up entrepreneurs have launched a website to find temporary accommodation for refugees fleeing to Europe, modelled on the popular Airbnb ...
Fukushima disaster was preventable
Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)
The worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown never should have happened, according to a new study. In the peer-reviewed Philosophical Transactio...
Hungarian army given sweeping powers against migrants
Sep 21, 2015 (AFP)
Hungary's parliament gave Monday the army and police sweeping new powers to keep migrants out as populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that Europe was bei...
Nepal quake survivors turn porters to deliver aid
Sep 21, 2015 (AFP)
Her back hunched over, Nepali villager Sanchimaya Thami strained to make the last stretch of a five-hour trek to deliver critical relief supplies to other victi...
Iraqis buy life jackets for trip to Europe's distant shores
Sep 20, 2015 (AFP)
Ali's friends told him to bring a life jacket, so the young Iraqi man headed to a Baghdad sports shop and bought a bright orange one with a whistle attached. He...
Over 190 hurt when fire drill goes wrong in China
Sep 20, 2015 (AFP)
A fire drill at a school in northwestern China left more than 190 people injured, nine critically, after participants inhaled smoke used to simulate accident co...
Summer of bloodshed as US murder rates rise
Sep 20, 2015 (AFP)
Dre, who turns 15 this month, has been unable to walk or talk since he was shot in the head, his plight a sad example of the toll taken by worsening US gun viol...
Bulgaria deploying up to 1,000 troops at Turkish border
Sep 17, 2015 (AFP)
Bulgaria began deploying up to 1,000 troops Thursday to buttress its southeastern border with Turkey with hundreds of migrants stranded for a third day on the T...
Mexican FM urges 'exhaustive' probe into Egypt tourist deaths
Sep 16, 2015 (AFP)
Mexico's foreign minister called Wednesday for an "exhaustive" and transparent investigation into an Egyptian air strike that mistakenly killed eight Mexican to...
Charity that helped academics flee Nazis aids Syrians and Iraqis
Sep 16, 2015 (AFP)
A British foundation created in 1933 to help academics flee Nazi Germany has found a new calling helping Syrian and Iraqi academics escape in the hope that one ...
Typhoon-hit Philippine island rebuilding fast: UN official
Sep 15, 2015 (AFP)
The Philippines, which suffered the wrath of the most powerful storm ever to hit land in 2013, could complete its rebuilding in as little as two years, a UN off...
Coast Guard's Rescue 21 Alaska communications system upgrade
Sep 14, 2015 (UPI)
General Dynamics is to update communications equipment and the physical infrastructure of the U.S. Coast Guard's Rescue 21 Alaska system. Work under the Phase 2...
Fukushima dumps first batch of once-radioactive water in sea
Sep 14, 2015 (AFP)
Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant Monday began releasing previously contaminated water into the sea, but the man tasked with preventing another meltdown ...
Babies and children among 34 dead in Aegean migrant boat sinking
Sep 13, 2015 (AFP)
At least 34 people, including 15 babies and children, drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized in high winds off a Greek island on Sunday, the latest migran...
Two Russian aid planes land in Syria: state media
Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)
Two Russian planes carrying humanitarian aid landed in Syria on Saturday, state media said, amid reports that Moscow is beefing up military support to its ally ...
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