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Germany to host conference on Syrian refugees
Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)
Germany will host an international conference next month to mobilize aid for Syrian refugees after the launch of US-led airstrikes, the foreign minister told th...
Japan, Mexico to join UN peacekeeping
Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)
Japan and Mexico will contribute troops to UN peacekeeping, a top UN official said Friday following a top-level meeting aimed at shoring up blue-helmet missions...
Turkish leader presses Europe on Syria refugees
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged European governments to provide greater support to Syrian refugees after the launch of Western airstri...
Los Cabos celebrity haunt races to recover from storm
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
Mexico's popular Los Cabos beach resort, a favorite haunt of US tourists and celebrities, is scrambling to clean up the destruction left by Hurricane Odile befo...
Expats defend paradise in hurricane-hit Mexico
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
Armed with nothing more than an air horn and walkie-talkie, US retiree Antonio Lucero helps fellow expats protect their piece of paradise from thieves after Hur...
Kurdish refugees in Turkey adjust to harsh new reality
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
When he finally managed to cross the Turkish border to find sanctuary from jihadists in Syria, Abdelaziz Temo looked for shade to find refuge from the sun and w...
Tornadoes occurring earlier in Tornado Alley
Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)
Peak tornado activity in the central and southern Great Plains of the United States is occurring up to two weeks earlier than it did half a century ago, accordi...
Far more displaced by disasters than conflict: study
Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)
Disasters last year displaced three times more people than violent conflicts, showing the urgent need to improve resilience for vulnerable people when fighting ...
Kashmir militants suspend jihad to help flood efforts
Sep 15, 2014 (AFP)
An alliance of pro-Pakistani militant groups fighting in Indian Kashmir announced Monday it was suspending jihadist activities to carry out rescue and relief wo...
At least 17 dead as flood rescue boat capsizes in Pakistan
Sep 14, 2014 (AFP)
At least 17 people including a bridegroom and two children drowned Sunday when a rescue boat carrying a wedding party capsized in flood-hit central Pakistan, of...
Fresh rain hampers rescue bid in flood-ravaged Kashmir
Sep 14, 2014 (AFP)
Fresh rain hampered rescue operations in Indian Kashmir Sunday a week after deadly floods swamped the Himalayan region, with medics and survivors describing nig...
Dutch say need to know MH17 missile launch site to prosecute
Sep 12, 2014 (AFP)
Dutch prosecutors said Friday they need to know where a missile that may have shot down flight MH17 was fired from in eastern Ukraine before criminal charges co...
Shikaras to the rescue on Kashmir's flooded paradise
Sep 12, 2014 (AFP)
Nineteen-year-old Tanvir Ahmed Sheikh sits slumped in his shikara wooden taxi boat on the banks of Indian Kashmir's Dal Lake, exhausted by deadly floods that ha...
Displaced Iraqis brace for onset of Kurdish winter
Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)
Displaced Iraqis who escaped a jihadist-led onslaught north of Baghdad during the scorching summer are braced to face another enemy: the onset of winter in the ...
Malaysia calls for new MH17 search for victims' remains
Sep 10, 2014 (AFP)
Malaysia's defence minister on Wednesday called for experts to carry out a final search at the crash site of downed flight MH17 in east Ukraine to recover any r...
Rising anger in Indian Kashmir over flood rescue delay
Sep 10, 2014 (AFP)
Anger mounted Wednesday over the slow pace of rescue operations in Indian Kashmir as officials said they were "overwhelmed" by the scale of deadly flooding that...
Sikorsky delivers search-and-rescue helicopter
Sep 09, 2014 (UPI)
The first of nearly a dozen S-92 helicopters configured for search-and-rescue service has been delivered by Sikorsky Aircraft to Bristow Helicopters Ltd. Bristo...
German insurers pay out record claims in 2013
Sep 08, 2014 (AFP)
German insurers paid out a record 50 billion euros ($65 billion) in claims in 2013, the GDV industry federation said on Monday. The amount represented an increa...
Sorrow and frustration of MH370 families six months on
Sep 08, 2014 (AFP)
Grieving family members of passengers aboard MH370 held an emotional gathering in Beijing on Monday, six months after the plane disappeared, demanding answers a...
Thousands attend funeral for Bosnia miners
Sep 08, 2014 (AFP)
Several thousand people on Monday paid their last respects to five Bosnian miners killed last week when a gas explosion caused part of a mine to collapse. "Our ...
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