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Eight children trapped after Colombia landslide buries school: officials
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
Video footage shared on social media showed dozens of villagers with shovels trying to remove a heap of felled trees and rubble. Daniel Quintero, the mayor of M...
Fires at Beirut silos spark memory of deadly port blast
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
On August 4, Lebanon will mark two years since the explosion that killed more than 200 people. It was caused by a stockpile of haphazardly stored ammonium nitra...
Former bosses of Fukushima operator ordered to pay $97 bn damages
Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)
Four ex-bosses from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) were ordered to pay the damages in a suit brought by shareholders over the nuclear disaster trigger...
US gun regulation agency fills empty director post after seven years
Jul 12, 2022 (AFP)
Steve Dettelbach, 56, will now become the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), following a series of deadly mass shootings...
Biden says guns turning US neighborhoods into 'killing fields'
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
In a White House ceremony to mark new gun control legislation that he signed on June 25, Biden said it was the first significant progress in 30 years, but did n...
Child among nine killed in Pakistan mine flood
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
Police said torrential monsoon rain inundated the mine in Jhampir, 120 kilometres (75 miles) east of Karachi. Poverty and the weak implementation of labour laws...
Belgium army steps in as asylum system overwhelmed
Jul 06, 2022 (AFP)
The shelters will be set up "in hangars, with mobile sanitary facilities if necessary", a defence ministry statement said. "A container village" with 750 places...
Rescuers gather body parts after Italy glacier collapse
Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)
Rescue teams sent helicopters and drones up for a second day after Sunday's disaster, which saw at least seven hikers killed when a section of the country's lar...
'Colossal' work ahead, as Ukraine recovery meet to open in Switzerland
Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)
Zelensky, who is due to deliver a video address to the conference when it opens Monday afternoon, stressed Sunday the towering challenges that recovering from t...
US drought exposes murky mob past of Las Vegas
Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)
But climate change has a way of messing even with the mafia, and a watery grave outside Las Vegas is starting to cough up Sin City's darkest secrets. Lake Mead,...
12 bodies found after South China Sea typhoon shipwreck: official
Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement came days after an engineering vessel 160 nautical miles (296 kilometres) southwest of Hong Kong suffered substantial damage and broke into two...
UN urgently appeals for $110 mn for Afghanistan quake victims
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
The 5.9-magnitude quake last Wednesday hit hardest in impoverished Paktika province in the east, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands ho...
Ukraine, climate, hunger: the G7 action plans
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
Here are the main plans drawn up by the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in tackling the myriad of crises facing ...
19 dead in India after building collapses in monsoon
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
The structure -- located next to a slum in a central city district -- collapsed just before midnight on Monday, according to local officials. Fourteen people ha...
Afghan quake survivors without food and shelter as aid trickles in
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
Wednesday's 5.9-magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east along the border with Pakistan while people slept, killing more than 1,000 and leaving thousan...
Freedom and fear: the foundations of America's deadly gun culture
Jun 23, 2022 (AFP)
As a landmark Supreme Court decision expanded gun rights Thursday, just weeks after a mass killing of 19 children in their Texas school, the debate rages on and...
UN working to get shelter, trauma care to Afghan quake scene
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
The earthquake struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight killing at least 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more, with the toll expected to rise. ...
Iraqi migrant in UK fears Rwanda deportation, despite reprieve
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
The 25-year-old was among a handful of asylum seekers who were due to be the first of many sent from the United Kingdom under a controversial resettlement deal ...
One dead in Shanghai chemical plant explosion
Jun 18, 2022 (AFP)
The fire at a Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. plant in outlying Jinshan district broke out at around dawn on Saturday, and was brought under control within h...
As climate impacts grow, so do calls for 'loss and damage' funds
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
The contentious issue of "loss and damage" has been a major focus of an ongoing United Nations climate talks in Germany tasked with laying the groundwork for th...
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