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WHO seeks experts for pandemic prevention group
Aug 20, 2021 (AFP)
The UN health agency launched a call for nominations of experts across a wide range of fields, including virology, veterinary medicine and laboratory safety and...
Haiti quake a cruel new blow to Hurricane Matthew survivors
Aug 17, 2021 (AFP)
Tragedy has cast a long pall over life in Haiti's southwest corner, which suffered a humanitarian crisis in October 2016 when Hurricane Matthew caused catastrop...
Afghan women's rights in firing line as Taliban return to power
Aug 16, 2021 (AFP)
"It was like a doomsday for the entire nation to see everything collapse in (the) blink of an eye," she told AFP in a series of messages via Twitter on Monday a...
Putin alarmed over 'unprecedented' natural disasters in Russia
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking at a video conference with officials on the effects of Siberia's record-setting forest fires, he said it was "important" to work on the climate agenda ...
370 Iraqi would-be migrants to EU flown home from Belarus
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
Baghdad last week announced a suspension of flights to Belarus to stem the flow and "protect Iraqi citizens who have been victims of smuggling networks". Iraqi ...
Disaster-struck Turkey faces toll of climate change
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Wildfires that have killed eight people since late July across southern coastal regions, ravaging forests and turning villages to ash, followed the growth of a ...
EU sees 'significant decrease' in Lithuania arrivals
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Baghdad suspended flights to Belarus on Friday after the EU accused the country of encouraging unauthorised arrivals in retaliation against EU sanctions. The bl...
Vast infrastructure bill overcomes key hurdle in US Senate
Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)
The bill, months in the making, calls for $550 billion in new federal spending on the nation's aging infrastructure, including funds to slow the effects of clim...
Brazil indigenous group sues Bolsonaro at ICC for 'genocide'
Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)
The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) alleged in a case filed with the Hague-based court that the far-right president has led "an explicit, sys...
Death toll in German chemical blast climbs to six
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
One person is still missing and presumed dead following the July 27 explosion, which also injured 31 people. The cause of the blast at the chemical park's waste...
German prosecutors mull manslaughter probe into deadly floods
Aug 02, 2021 (AFP)
Some 186 people lost their lives in severe floods that pummelled western Germany in mid-July, raising questions about whether enough was done to forewarn reside...
A year after the mushroom cloud, Lebanon still bleeds
Aug 01, 2021 (AFP)
The blast was felt as far away as Cyprus, and the destruction is hard to fathom. But if one thing can outweigh what happened to Lebanon that day, it is what has...
Health fears ease after German chemical park blast
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
"Contrary to what was feared, no critical levels of dioxin and PCBs have been found," Ulrich Quass of the enviroment department in North Rhine-Westphalia told a...
Solastalgia and doomism: new climate lingo boggles the mind
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
Rising temperatures have not only boosted the intensity or frequency of major storms and heatwaves, they have spawned rare or novel weather phenomena, accompani...
Two dead, five missing in blast at German chemical park
Jul 27, 2021 (AFP)
At least 31 people were injured, one of them critically, in the blast that rocked the Chempark complex in the city of Leverkusen at around 09:40 am (0740 GMT), ...
GOP leaders object to cancellation of border wall construction
Jul 26, 2021 (UPI)
President Joe Biden, on his first day of office, ordered a pause in construction of the wall separating the United States and Mexico, pending a review of fundin...
Morocco's navy rescues 368 migrants bound for Spain
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
It said the migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were rescued between Tuesday and Friday when their makeshift boats, including rubber dinghies and kayaks, ...
Flood-battered Germany approves major relief package
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
A week into the region's worst flooding disaster in living memory, which has killed at least 174 in Germany and 32 more Belgium, the right-left "grand coalition...
On Belarus border, EU guards patrol amid migrant 'crisis'
Jul 20, 2021 (AFP)
The Baltic EU member state has seen more than 2,000 arrivals since the start of the year across the border from Belarus. Most of the migrants are from Iraq, and...
Germany vows to improve flood warning system as toll passes 165
Jul 19, 2021 (AFP)
The west of the country was deluged over two days last week, with torrents of water sweeping away trees, cars and bridges and destroying swathes of housing. Man...
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