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Hopes for historic United Nations Resolution to stamp out witchcraft atrocities
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
Passed without a vote, the Resolution, which has been several years in the making, was tabled this month at the UN Human Rights Council by Kenya, with the suppo...
Weather, climate disasters surge fivefold in 50 years: UN
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
A report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) examined mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes between 1970 and ...
Despair, anger in Louisiana in wake of Hurricane Ida
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
"My children were terrified," the 46-year-old told AFP in LaPlace, Louisiana, dressed all in blue and standing at the front door of her wrecked home. "I never h...
Chemical reaction likely to blame for deadly blast at German plant
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
The July 27 blast at the Chempark chemical complex in the western city of Leverkusen, which also injured 31 workers, was heard several kilometres away and rattl...
EU looks to stave off 'uncontrolled' Afghan migration
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
Interior ministers from the 27-nation group meet in Brussels on Tuesday for emergency talks as they seek to avoid a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis that saw o...
Mexico puts firearm flows high on agenda with US
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
The lawsuit filed in a Boston court is part of the Latin American nation's efforts to put the issue of cross-border weapons flows at the heart of the diplomatic...
In New Orleans, Ida brings trauma of Katrina flooding back
Aug 29, 2021 (AFP)
"We were sitting in the yard about 11:00 when the levees broke" on August 29, 2005, he tells AFP. He quickly jumped in his truck and headed for the Claiborne Av...
Senegal navy searches for dozens lost after migrant boat capsizes
Aug 28, 2021 (AFP)
The boat flipped over about 15 kilometres (nine miles) off the northern city of Saint-Louis, said the official, who asked not to be identified. The accident hap...
China to build satellite constellation for natural disaster observation
Aug 26, 2021 (XNA)
The project undertaken by the Tianjin Satcom Geohe Technologies Co., Ltd. was inaugurated on Tuesday in China's spacecraft launch center of Wenchang, in South C...
Bulgaria to send soldiers to border over migrant 'pressure'
Aug 26, 2021 (AFP)
EU countries have been fearing a possible influx of people from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control on August 15, with memories still fresh from the mi...
Haitian women, left homeless by quake living in constant fear
Aug 25, 2021 (AFP)
"We're not safe," she told AFP, echoing the worry of other Haitian women all too aware of the sexual violence that has followed the disaster-plagued nation's pr...
Fukushima operators to build undersea tunnel to release treated water
Aug 25, 2021 (AFP)
Plans for the one-kilometre (0.6-mile) tunnel were announced after the Japanese government decided in April to release the accumulated water in two years' time....
Morocco navy rescues more than 400 Europe-bound migrants
Aug 24, 2021 (AFP)
The 438 migrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, were given first aid before being taken to the nearest Moroccan port, an officer told the state-run MAP ...
Poland to build Belarus border fence against migrants
Aug 23, 2021 (AFP)
Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said the fence would be 2.5 metres (8.2 feet) high and would resemble the one built by Hungary along its border with Serbia. ...
10 days later, Haiti earthquake victims struggle to cope
Aug 23, 2021 (AFP)
"I'm slowly resuming my work," Edouard, a motorcycle taxi driver, told AFP. "But it hasn't been calm yet, because there is still shaking," he said, speaking in ...
Haiti quake toll rises as gangs hamper aid efforts
Aug 22, 2021 (AFP)
"New bodies have been found in the south," said a statement from the country's civil protection office, adding that 344 people remain missing and 12,268 have be...
'No one has come to help': Desperate Haitians rush aid convoys after quake
Aug 21, 2021 (AFP)
The mobbing of relief supplies and tumultuous handouts underscored the desperation in the wake of last week's powerful tremor, which killed more than 2,000 peop...
Mexico says US court agrees to hear suit against gunmakers
Aug 21, 2021 (AFP)
A federal court in Massachusetts accepted to consider the suit against companies "responsible for the negligent trade in weapons used by criminals here," Mexica...
Past disaster failures haunt quake-ravaged Haiti
Aug 20, 2021 (AFP)
With almost 53,000 homes completely destroyed and more than 77,000 others damaged in Saturday's tremor, authorities have a massive group of people that will nee...
Landslide disaster risk in the Kivu Rift is linked to deforestation and population growth
Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)
Landslides occur in mountainous regions all over the world, causing thousands of fatalities each year. The strong population growth in recent decades, the assoc...
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