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Senegal navy intercepts more than 600 migrants in three days
Oct 01, 2023 (AFP)
The navy said on social media that one of its patrol boats had on Saturday boarded two canoes carrying 262 passengers, including 26 women and 13 minors. Saturda...
'Negligent' Iraq officials sacked for wedding fire
Oct 01, 2023 (AFP)
The tragedy struck the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, a centre of Iraq's small Christian community near Mosul, in a wedding hall with a capacity of "no more t...
Libya's eastern govt delays Derna reconstruction meeting
Oct 01, 2023 (AFP)
The event was put off until November 1-2 to "offer time for the submission of effective studies and projects" for the reconstruction effort, the committee charg...
Second round of Fukushima wastewater release to start next week
Sep 29, 2023 (AFP)
On August 24, Japan began discharging into the Pacific some of the 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater that has collected since a tsunami crippled the facility in...
Four more officials held after Libya flood disaster
Sep 29, 2023 (AFP)
Flooding caused by hurricane-strength Storm Daniel tore through eastern Libya on September 10, leaving at least 3,893 people dead and thousands more missing. Th...
Grief, anger at Iraq mass for victims of wedding fire
Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)
Mourners wept or quietly embraced one another under the arches of the Syriac Catholic church of Al-Tahera, where portraits of the dead lined the stairs, showing...
'We're all dead': Iraqis in shock after wedding fire
Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)
At the cemetery in the northern city of Qaraqosh, mourners gathered around the clergy from various churches, chanting prayers in Syriac and delivering sermons i...
East Libya government announces fund for flood-hit Derna
Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)
Although not recognised internationally, the eastern government also confirmed in a statement that it would host an "international conference" on October 10 to ...
Reconstruction aid lagging for 2022 Pakistan floods: UN chief
Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)
"Billions were pledged" by rich nations in the aftermath of the disaster, said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, "but the vast majority was in loans. And Paki...
At least 100 killed in Iraq wedding fire tragedy
Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)
The cause of the Tuesday evening blaze in the mainly Christian town of Qaraqosh was not immediately known but early reports suggested the fireworks had triggere...
Greek flood victims race to rebuild before new storm hits
Sep 26, 2023 (AFP)
Three weeks on, with the village of Vlochos still clogged with tonnes of mud, Falangas could only stare dumbstruck at what little remained of his family home. "...
Australia says cost of climate, disasters surging
Sep 26, 2023 (AFP)
The latest government modelling showed that global warming and disasters had "big, economy-wide effects", Treasurer Jim Chalmers said in a prepared speech. Crop...
Lebanon rescues Syrians in sinking migrant boat
Sep 23, 2023 (AFP)
The navy, with support from the civil defence, "was able to rescue 27 illegal migrants aboard a rubber boat that was sinking off the Chekka coast", an army stat...
Debris and dead bodies clutter flood-hit Libyan port
Sep 22, 2023 (AFP)
Tugboat captain Ali al-Mismari, 60, recalled the night of September 10 when torrential rains caused by Storm Daniel battered the eastern Libyan city, bursting t...
As Derna reels, other flood-hit Libyan cities struggle to recover
Sep 22, 2023 (AFP)
Ahmed Saleh, a 34-year-old civil engineer clad in a traditional white jalabiya, is still in shock at the scale of the destruction in his home city, Susa. More t...
Blockbuster movie scares Chinese tourists away from Thailand
Sep 22, 2023 (AFP)
But thanks to social media rumours and a blockbuster movie, the kingdom's image among many Chinese people is now one of dangerous illegality and seedy scam bord...
Libya flood disaster displaced over 43,000 people: IOM
Sep 21, 2023 (AFP)
A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing dams upstream from the coastal city after the Mediterranean Storm Daniel lashed the area on September 10. I...
Cities wiped out, or nearly, by disasters
Sep 20, 2023 (AFP)
But from the debris, many of those razed landscapes have also managed to rebuild and reinvent themselves following years of reconstruction. - Bhuj, 2001 - A mas...
Morocco sets aside nearly $12 bn for quake recovery
Sep 20, 2023 (AFP)
The 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Al-Haouz province south of Marrakesh on September 8, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring thousands more. The government sa...
Libya flood survivors endure unbearable wait for missing relatives
Sep 20, 2023 (AFP)
Ten days after a tsunami-scale flash flood ripped through the coastal city, razing entire neighbourhoods, many of the traumatised survivors are still waiting to...
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