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Japan starts chemical weapon destruction in China
Dec 01, 2014 (AFP)
A Japanese-built facility in China on Monday began destroying the largest cache of World War II chemical weapons abandoned in the country, Tokyo officials said,...
Amsterdam sends abandoned bicycles to Syrian refugees
Dec 01, 2014 (AFP)
Amsterdam was due Monday to send hundreds of unwanted bicycles to help Syrian refugees get around the sprawling Zaatari camp in Jordan. "Some 300 abandoned bicy...
Displaced top 2 million as winter hits northern Iraq
Nov 30, 2014 (AFP)
The number of people displaced by conflict in Iraq has grown to 2.1 million, aid organisations warned Sunday as snow began falling on the Kurdish north hosting ...
Fire causes shutdown at Belgian nuclear reactor
Nov 30, 2014 (AFP)
A fire caused the shutdown of a nuclear reactor in eastern Belgium on Sunday, media reports said, making it the fourth reactor to go offline in the country. The...
Firing range reports gun sales hike after Ferguson
Nov 27, 2014 (AFP)
Racially-charged protests in Ferguson are fueling an exponential increase in gun sales among mainly white customers at one of the premier shooting ranges in the...
In Turkey, Iraqi Catholics seek stepping stone to new life
Nov 27, 2014 (AFP)
It hardly seems the gateway to a new life of safety and prosperity: An office tucked away in a grey apartment block in Istanbul. Yet every day, dozens of Iraqi ...
Disaster-prone Philippines wants simpler weather warnings
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
The Philippines will simplify its weather warnings to make them easier to understand in order to prevent the annual loss of hundreds of lives from natural calam...
Building better awareness of landslide risks with Lidar
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
Engineers have created a new way to use lidar technology to identify and classify landslides on a landscape scale, which may revolutionize the understanding of ...
Woman finds pet dog lost in Philippines typhoon a year ago
Nov 25, 2014 (AFP)
A Filipino woman has been reunited with her dog a year after the pet went missing in the chaos of the country's deadliest ever typhoon, she told AFP Tuesday. Th...
Japan's Abe vows support for victims after quake injures 41
Nov 24, 2014 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday promised "firm" support after meeting victims of a weekend earthquake, which injured 41 people and wrecked hundreds...
SMS alerts cut deaths from elephants in rural India
Nov 18, 2014 (AFP)
Geetha Thomas owes her life to a text message. The 38-year-old tea plantation worker was able to scramble onto the roof of her home in southern India as a herd ...
Italy faces billion euro bill for killer rainfall
Nov 17, 2014 (AFP)
Torrential rain drenched northern Italy again Monday as the damage suffered by just one of the regions hit by floods and landslides was put at one billion euros...
New sites will boost European search and rescue
Nov 17, 2014 (ESA)
A trio of stations has taken shape on three islands at the far corners of our continent, ready to pick up distress calls via satellite from all across Europe an...
Tense G20 vows action on Ebola as climate returns to fore
Nov 15, 2014 (AFP)
Feuding G20 leaders found common ground on Saturday in vowing to "extinguish" the Ebola outbreak as they worked to revamp the global economy at a summit marked ...
Trace amounts of radiation detected along U.S. West Coast
Nov 14, 2014 (UPI)
As scientists have been predicting for months, trace amounts of radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have finally arrived on the shores of the Uni...
Prayers, tears in Philippines one year after super typhoon
Nov 08, 2014 (AFP)
Survivors of the strongest typhoon ever to hit land wept at mass graves on Saturday during ceremonies to mark one year since the storm devastated the central Ph...
Fukushima construction workers hurt: operator
Nov 07, 2014 (AFP)
Three workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were injured Friday, including one seriously, when steel construction material collapsed on them. Tokyo El...
Typhoon-shattered Philippines slowly on mend
Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)
Philippine communities shattered by Super Typhoon Haiyan a year ago are starting to bustle again as a mega-reconstruction effort takes root, but millions of sur...
Perilous year for Philippine typhoon mothers
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
Emily Sagalis gave birth on a concrete slab after battling storm surges that killed thousands, then like many new mothers in razed communities of the Philippine...
Philippine typhoon widow grateful for cruel consolation
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
A tiny store selling lollies, coffee and shampoo may seem a cruel consolation for Philippine typhoon widow Jennifer Pulga, but it keeps her with her children an...
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