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Six companies share $5B Navy contract for construction, disaster response
Jul 16, 2021 (UPI)
The contract, to 2029, calls for "immediate response for civilian construction project capability" authorized by the Navy, the Defense Department or other feder...
Morocco navy rescues over 300 migrants bound for Europe
Jul 15, 2021 (AFP)
It said the migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were rescued between last Saturday and Wednesday. "They were given first aid on board units of the Royal N...
Final death toll in China hotel collapse put at 17
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
Six others were earlier rescued from the rubble of the Siji Kaiyuan hotel, which crumbled in a heap of shattered concrete and bent metal beams two days earlier ...
US judge overturns ban on 18-year-olds buying handguns
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
Judge Julius Richardson, who was appointed to the appeals court in Richmond, Virginia by former president Donald Trump, based his ruling on the fact that 18 yea...
Japan landslide toll rises to 9
Jul 08, 2021 (AFP)
"Today, two more people were confirmed dead, with the number of victims now totalling nine," disaster-management spokesman Yuta Hara told AFP. There were still ...
Better weather warnings could save 23,000 lives: UN
Jul 08, 2021 (AFP)
Investment in multi-hazard early warning programmes could create potential annual benefits worth at least $162 billion -- 10 times the cost, the UN's World Mete...
Survivor window closing in Japan landslide as death toll reaches seven
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
The fate or whereabouts of 27 residents of Atami in central Japan remains unknown, a regional spokesman said, after dozens of homes were swept away on Saturday ...
Survivor window closing in Japan landslide, 24 unaccounted for
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
Four people have been confirmed dead after the disaster in Atami in central Japan and officials said they were still unable to clarify the fate or whereabouts o...
Florida condo death toll 32, Storm Elsa complicates search
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
The death toll from the June 24 disaster in Surfside rose overnight to 32 as search teams found four more bodies in the rubble, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella...
Rescuers search for survivors in landslide-hit Japan town
Jul 04, 2021 (AFP)
Two women were confirmed dead after torrents of mud crashed through part of the hot-spring resort of Atami in central Japan on Saturday morning, following days ...
Covid has created 'ideal environment' for human trafficking: US
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
The State Department's "2021 Trafficking in Persons Report" also downgraded several countries and upgraded others for their efforts to combat the scourge of hum...
Climate change likely not cause of building collapse, professor says
Jun 30, 2021 (AFP)
Officials have few answers for what caused most of the 12-story building in Surfside, Florida to pancake in the middle of the night last week, killing 12 people...
Parched Los Angeles launches fireworks buyback program ahead of July 4
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
The initiative will make it possible to anonymously hand in fireworks -- whose sale and use are banned in the city -- to the police in exchange for baseball tic...
Tunisian navy rescues over 170 migrants at sea
Jun 27, 2021 (AFP)
Two bodies were recovered and 178 migrants rescued during three operations off Tunisia's south coast, a ministry statement said. The migrants, who the ministry ...
Crippled cargo ship towed to Singapore after fire: Sri Lanka navy
Jun 26, 2021 (AFP)
The Indian coastguard helped extinguish the blaze after it erupted aboard the MV MSC Messina on Friday about 425 nautical miles (787 kilometres) from Port Blair...
Millions join Mexico quake drills after pandemic eases
Jun 21, 2021 (AFP)
The resumption of the emergency exercises follows a steady decline in new Covid-19 cases and deaths in Mexico, one of the countries worst hit by the virus. The ...
U.N. accuses Russia of blocking aid to Kakhovka dam victims
Jun 19, 2021 (UPI)
The hydroelectric dam in Russia-occupied Kakhovka in southern Ukraine collapsed June 6 as a result of an explosion. Subsequent flooding of dozens of towns and v...
Eight detained over deadly China gas blast
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
Over a hundred people were injured in the explosion, which struck a busy two-storey building packed with shoppers and people eating breakfast in the Hubei provi...
Snipers 'were ready to shoot' Greenpeace Euro 2020 parachutist
Jun 16, 2021 (AFP)
"The snipers already had him in their sights," the regional minister Joachim Herrmann said in a statement. "If the police had come to the conclusion that it was...
MacKenzie Scott announces new philanthropy gifts of $2.7 bn
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has pledged to give away the bulk of her fortune from their divorce settlement, said in a blog post she was donati...
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