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Regions in US, China most at risk for climate damage: report
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
The new findings underscore the urgent need for governments to focus on decarbonisation and adaptation measures such as flood-proofing -- and show the economic ...
How does aid get into rebel-held northwest Syria
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
The 7.8-magnitude quake killed more than 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria, including 3,600 in Syria, piling more misery on a population who activists say has b...
Turkey winds down quake rescue as Blinken pledges fresh US aid
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
The 7.8-magnitude tremor that struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6 has killed more than 44,000 people, with the likelihood of finding sur...
Turkey quake survivors rescue belongings for uncertain future
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
During last week's tremor that rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, killing more than 44,000, Jawir, his wife and two daughters sheltered in a cluster...
Aid group issues urgent appeal for quake-hit Syria
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
Aid has been slow to reach Syria's rebel-held areas since the February 6 quake killed a combined total of more than 44,000 people across Turkey and Syria. "An u...
Power, water return to cyclone-hit New Zealand cities
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
Almost a week after Cyclone Gabrielle brought scouring winds and torrential rains to the country's North Island -- causing landslides and widespread flooding --...
Turkey rescuers save two people 13 days after quake
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
More than 43,000 people died after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, the deadliest natural disaster in the region in cen...
Syrian family of seven dies in fire after surviving quake
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
The Syrian family moved to the central region of Konya from the southeastern Turkish city of Nurdagi, which was badly hit by the February 6 temblor. The death t...
Syrian refugees flock to border to flee Turkey quake wreckage
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
Hundreds queued at the Cilvegozu border crossing in southeast Turkey following the quake, which has killed more than 41,000 people and displaced millions across...
Over 140 aid trucks have entered rebel-held Syria since quake: UN
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
"Since February 9 up to last night, we had a total of 143 trucks going through the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salama border crossings," Jens Laerke, a spokesman for...
Canada warships to take up positions off Haiti coast
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
Speaking to a meeting of Caribbean leaders in the Bahamian capital Nassau, he said the ships will "conduct surveillance, gather intelligence and maintain a mari...
Teen, two men rescued in Turkey nearly 11 days after quake
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
Osman, 14, was rescued 260 hours after the 7.8-magnitude tremor struck Turkey's southeast and Syria, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter. He shared a...
Quake fallout inflames migrant tensions in Turkey disaster zone
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
"He was stealing!" the volunteer screams, echoing looting charges levelled against migrants across the ruins of Antakya and other cities flattened by last week'...
Turkey-Syria death toll passes 41,000 as UN appeals for quake aid
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
Eleven days after the quake -- now one of the 10 deadliest in the past 100 years -- Turkish rescuers pulled a 17-year-old girl and a woman in her 20s out of the...
'Abandoned': Turkish town awaits help 11 days after quake
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
Many in the Syrian border region town of Samandag listened to their relatives and friends slowly die under the rubble as they waited for rescuers who came too l...
Colombia mulls proposal to benefit repentant narcos
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
Drug traffickers who cease their activities would see their prison sentences limited to between six and eight years. It is part of leftist President Gustavo Pet...
UN appeals for nearly $400 mn for Syria quake victims
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, announcing the appeal at the UN headquarters in New York, said the funds would bring "life-saving relief" for nearly five mi...
Born in wartime, Syrian children orphaned by quake
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
Her father, mother and four-year-old sister were among the nearly 40,000 people killed in the 7.8-magnitude quake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6. Af...
The controversial plan to release Fukushima plant's wastewater
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
Operator TEPCO says the water has been filtered to remove most radioactive elements, and calls the release both safe and necessary, but there has been domestic ...
'Lucky tiger': Fukushima fishermen pin hopes on pufferfish
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
In the 12 years since the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant caused by a deadly tsunami in northeastern Japan, "there hasn't been much good news", fisherma...
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