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Fears grow for Nepal's pregnant women after quake
Aug 28, 2015 (AFP)
As labour pains gripped Junu Shrestha around midnight one day in early July, the heavily pregnant villager set off on foot along a muddy path destroyed in Nepal...
China arrests 12 over Tianjin blasts as toll rises
Aug 27, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese police have arrested 12 people over giant explosions that killed at least 145 people and devastated a swathe of a Chinese port city, state media said Th...
New Orleans awash in music 10 years after Katrina
Aug 27, 2015 (AFP)
The vibrant sounds of brass bands and buskers echo through the streets of New Orleans ten years after the birthplace of jazz was devastated by Hurricane Katrina...
Bulgarian army steps in to buttress Macedonia border
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
Bulgaria'a army stepped in on Tuesday to buttress the southwestern border with Macedonia, which has been hit in recent days by an unprecedented influx of migran...
Austria draws on army in migrant crisis
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
The Austrian army is to deploy more than 500 troops to help overstretched authorities deal with the large number of migrants arriving from Hungary and Italy, th...
Satellites focus on rescue and damage control work
Aug 24, 2015 (XNA)
China has mobilized at least eight of its satellites to help with search-and-rescue and damage control work after last week's massive blasts in Tianjin. The Chi...
Remembering New Orleans chaos, 10 years after Katrina
Aug 22, 2015 (AFP)
Ten years ago, my New Orleans hotel shook like a speeding freight train. Hurricane Katrina's deadly winds tore up roofs, yanked trees from the ground, and pushe...
New fires at China explosion site: report
Aug 21, 2015 (AFP)
Four new fires broke out Friday in the devastation left by giant explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin last week, state media reported, as clean-up eff...
'Kids on the frontline': China firefighters in spotlight after blasts
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
As the child of poor Chinese farmers Yang Weigang never dreamt of being a firefighter. But when he grew up, the chance of making a little more money than his po...
Ten years after Katrina, New Orleans is bustling
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina swept buildings off their foundations and deluged nearly all of New Orleans with floodwaters which rose so fast some people dro...
Cholera, climate change fuel Haiti's humanitarian crisis: UN
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
Climate change, cholera and the return of thousands of emigrants from the neighboring Dominican Republican are fueling a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the UN wa...
Officials calm homeowner protests over Tianjin blast
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
Officials in the Chinese port city of Tianjin agreed on Wednesday to negotiate with angry residents left homeless by massive explosions, after a series of prote...
Examining the fate of Fukushima contaminants
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team reports results of a three-year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a ...
Seven killed as landslide hits Sikh temple in India
Aug 18, 2015 (AFP)
A landslide struck a popular Sikh temple complex in northern India on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and wounding nine others, police said. Rescue worke...
China's disaster playbook falls short in Tianjin blasts
Aug 18, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese authorities' handling of the Tianjin explosions bears many of the hallmarks of their standard approach to the litany of disasters in the country -- a cl...
Homeless Tianjin residents demand compensation, answers
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
Residents who fled their homes near vast and deadly explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin gathered in anger on Monday to demand redress from a governme...
China moves to contain cyanide after blasts kill 114
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers trying to contain vast amounts of toxic cyanide at a Chinese industrial site combed Monday through thousands of shipping containers crushed in giant ex...
Chinese media lambast Tianjin officials over blast response
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese state-run media on Monday lambasted officials in the port city of Tianjin for a lack of transparency over the massive explosions at an industrial site t...
'Hundreds of tonnes' of cyanide at China blasts site: military
Aug 16, 2015 (AFP)
Hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at the warehouse devastated by two giant explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin which k...
Questions and fears after deadly Chinese blasts
Aug 16, 2015 (AFP)
Massive explosions at a chemical storage facility in the Chinese port of Tianjin on August 12 killed more than 100 people and injured more than 700. They also r...
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