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China wheelchair users dodge traffic on rough road to recognition
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Nearby, another wheelchair user is pushed along in the street as traffic whizzes past just inches away. Busy, narrow or clogged pavements -- haphazard rows of r...
World needs 'new mindset for our survival', says Goodall
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
In an interview with AFP, the world's pre-eminent primatologist said she was hopeful that Covid-19 could change people's approach to how we interact with Earth....
No need for National Guard 'quick reaction force,' GOP lawmakers say
May 19, 2021 (UPI)
Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mike Rogers, R-Ala., in a joint statement ...
Engineers inspect Chinese skyscraper after shaking triggers panic
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
The 300-metre (1,000-foot) SEG Plaza in the southern city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong began swaying in the early afternoon on Tuesday, prompting people inside an...
Hurricane Sandy: $8 bn in damage due to climate change
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
Sea level rise caused by global warming was also responsible for an additional 36,000 homes being flooded, researchers reported in the journal Nature Communicat...
Over 50 missing after migrant boat from Libya sinks
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
Defence ministry spokesman Mohamed Zikri said 32 survivors of the shipwreck were picked up after clinging to an oil platform off the southern coast of Tunisia. ...
China skyscraper wobbles, spreading panic in downtown Shenzhen
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
The near 300-metre (980 ft) high SEG Plaza inexplicably began to shake at around 1pm, prompting an evacuation of people inside while pedestrians looked on open-...
Huge Titanic replica to open as Chinese tourist destination
May 14, 2021 (AFP)
The project's main backer was inspired to recreate the world's most infamous cruise liner by the 1997 box office hit of the same name -- once the world's top-gr...
Iraq's heritage battered by desert sun, rain and state apathy
May 09, 2021 (AFP)
After Pope Francis made a historic visit to Iraq in March, many Iraqis hoped that busloads of tourists would flock to Al Aqiser church southwest of the capital ...
At least 15 dead after Guinean gold mine landslide
May 08, 2021 (AFP)
A rock overhang collapsed near the village of Tatakourou according to first telephoned reports from the area which did not clearly establish whether the victims...
Death toll in Indonesian power plant landslide rises to 10
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
A landslide triggered by heavy rains struck the Chinese-backed Batang Toru hydropower plant on Thursday last week, burying an estimated 13 people. Employees wer...
Over 600 Europe-bound migrants returned to Libya: navy
May 02, 2021 (AFP)
Three groups of illegal migrants were intercepted at sea on Friday and Saturday by Libya's coastguard and units in charge of securing ports, the navy said in a ...
Humanity taking 'colossal risk' with our future: Nobels
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
Only profound changes in the way society produces, distributes and consumes almost everything -- starting with energy -- can forestall potentially catastrophic ...
Utah's new concealed carry law won't apply at Hill AFB, Air Force says
Apr 29, 2021 (UPI)
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill 60 into law in February and the law takes effect May 5. The bill puts Utah in the company of 19 other states that do not...
Fires a chronic threat to Iraqi lives, property
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
Between January and March alone, the interior ministry recorded 7,000 fires, the deadliest of which erupted on Sunday in a Covid-19 hospital in Baghdad. Eighty-...
Implications are global in new study predicting Human exodus in Bangladesh
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study, "Modeling human migration under environmental change: a case study of the effect of sea level rise in Bangladesh," researchers led by Maurizio P...
Ukraine urges global solidarity to prevent Chernobyl repeat
Apr 26, 2021 (AFP)
He made the comments during a trip to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an area spanning a 30-kilometre (20-mile) radius around the nuclear power plant that was eva...
U.S. Coast Guard cutter participates in exercises with Italy's coast guard, navy
Apr 26, 2021 (UPI)
The interoperability exercises between the two NATO partners involved the Legend-class national security cutter USCGC Hamilton, which is deployed in the Mediter...
Fire kills 82 at Iraqi Covid hospital, health minister suspended
Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)
The blaze at eastern Baghdad's Ibn al-Khatib hospital began when badly stored oxygen cylinders blew up, medics said. Many of the victims were on respirators and...
At least 23 dead in fire at Iraqi Covid hospital
Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)
The fire started with an explosion caused by "a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders", medical sources told AFP. It spread quickly, according to the civil d...
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