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Shanghai cancels lantern festival after stampede
Jan 11, 2015 (AFP)
China's commercial hub Shanghai has cancelled a popular annual outdoor festival over safety concerns, after a New Year's eve stampede in the city killed 36 peop...
World powers jostle for influence in AirAsia plane hunt
Jan 09, 2015 (AFP)
US and Chinese warships have rushed to help Indonesia search for a crashed AirAsia plane, but analysts say more than altruistic motivations are at play with wor...
US says was overly optimistic on Haiti quake aid
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
US officials admitted Thursday that Washington had been over ambitious in its plans to help Haiti in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, despite pledging...
Five years on, Haiti struggles with quake legacy
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
Five years after a powerful earthquake demolished Haiti's capital, more than a million homeless survivors have been rehoused, but thousands remain under canvas,...
Gaza's ruined homes offer little shelter from storm
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
Living by candlelight with no electricity and reliant on sandbags to stop their ruined homes flooding, Gazans who survived last year's war are now struggling wi...
Three dead, unknown number missing in Myanmar jade mine landslide
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers continued to comb through rubble Thursday for victims of a landslide at a jade mine in war-torn northern Myanmar that killed at least three people, acc...
Indonesian divers struggle to reach AirAsia wreckage
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
Elite Indonesian military divers battled powerful currents on Thursday to reach the submerged tail of crashed AirAsia Flight 8501, in hopes of finding its cruci...
Natural catastrophe losses lower in 2014: Munich Re
Jan 07, 2015 (AFP)
Financial and human losses from natural catastrophes were lower in 2014 than in 2013, the world's leading reinsurer Munich Re calculated in its annual review pu...
Canada Safe Despite Fukushima Radiation in British Columbia Waters
Jan 06, 2015 (Sputnik)
Radioactive substances from the defunct Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant have reached the Canadian shelf, but their levels are of no threat to people, exp...
Shanghai stampede a 'bloody lesson' for city: mayor
Jan 06, 2015 (AFP)
The New Year's Eve crush that killed 36 people in Shanghai was a "bloody lesson" for the city, the mayor of China's commercial hub said Tuesday according to off...
Japan Doesn't Know What to Do With Waste From Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Jan 06, 2015 (Sputnik)
It remains unclear where much of the radioactive material recovered following the 2011 nuclear accident at Fukushima will be stored, as municipalities across Ja...
UN Security Council envoys to visit Haiti
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
UN Security Council ambassadors will travel to Haiti this month for a first-hand look at the political situation following a decision to draw down the UN missio...
Malaysian PM suffers bacterial infection after flood tour
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has contracted a bacterial infection and is resting at home after touring districts hit by the country's worst flooding in ...
Search resumes off British coast for missing mariners
Jan 04, 2015 (AFP)
A major search effort resumed Sunday for the missing crew of an overturned cargo ship spotted off the British coast. Seven Poles and one Filipino were on board ...
Italy takes control of drifting migrant ship
Jan 02, 2015 (AFP)
Italian sailors on Friday managed to take control of a crewless merchant ship as it drifted toward the country's southern shores in rough seas with 450 migrants...
Mourning and fury over China stampede deaths
Jan 02, 2015 (AFP)
The bitter pain of bereavement turned to tears of anger Friday for relatives of the 36 killed in a New Year's Eve crush in Shanghai, as they accused authorities...
New Year stampede kills 36 in China's financial capital
Jan 01, 2015 (AFP)
A New Year's stampede on Shanghai's historic waterfront killed at least 36 revellers and injured dozens more, mostly women, as one police officer said fewer per...
Migrants from 'drifting' ship arrive in Italy
Dec 31, 2014 (AFP)
Some 700 illegal migrants rescued from a ship near the Greek island of Corfu arrived in Italy on Wednesday, after their boat was intercepted while "drifting" to...
AirAsia disaster rekindles pain for MH370 relatives
Dec 30, 2014 (AFP)
Tearful relatives of those on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 said Tuesday their torment has been awakened anew by the AirAsia loss in Indonesia, nin...
Benefits of experiencing trauma can be passed to the next generation, study says
Dec 28, 2014 (UPI)
Experiencing trauma at a young age can cause a lot of harm, but new research suggests certain benefits can be passed to other generations. Scientists and health...
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