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At least five dead as Bangladesh ferry sinks after collision

Apr 04, 2021 (AFP)

The vessel sank in the Shitalakhsya river around 6:00 pm after leaving the central industrial city of Narayanganj, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the capital Dha...

Vatican urges 'motherly care' for climate refugees

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

The document, "Pastoral Orientations on Climate Displaced People," is a series of policies and proposals to bishops' conferences, local churches, congregations ...

US military offers to help in blocked Suez Canal

Mar 26, 2021 (AFP)

"As part of our active diplomatic dialogue with Egypt, we've offered US assistance to Egyptian authorities to help reopen the canal," said White House Spokeswom...

Food ferried to isolated Australians as flood threat lingers

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

Relentless downpours over the past week have caused "catastrophic" flooding in Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, with parts of suburban northwes...

Models link 1 degree of global warming to 50% spike in population displacement

Mar 24, 2021 (UPI)

In an effort to more precisely quantify displacement risk, an international team of researchers combined a variety of climate and hydrological models. Their ana...

Biden under growing pressure over border 'crisis'

Mar 23, 2021 (AFP)

Questioned by Republican opponents, but also by some in his own party, Biden has launched into a difficult week that features, on Thursday, his first press conf...

Fire, wind and water: The new normal in a land Down Under

Mar 23, 2021 (AFP)

Most of the year, the Hawkesbury River meanders calmly through the sandstone escarpment, valleys and lush farmland of Australia's east coast before it merges wi...

Suspect charged with eight murders in Atlanta shootings

Mar 18, 2021 (AFP)

Police said Robert Aaron Long has denied a racist motive to Tuesday's attacks -- in which six of the victims were women of Asian origin -- but that they had yet...

Airbus and Draken Europe team to provide Second Generation UK Search and Rescue capability

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

Airbus and Draken present a UK-based partnership demonstrating an extensive track record in delivering critical Search and Rescue services around the world, an ...

Pentagon leaders talk about border, hemispheric security at Senate hearing

Mar 16, 2021 (UPI)

VanHerck is the commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, and Faller is ...

Myanmar unrest driving up food, fuel prices: WFP

Mar 16, 2021 (AFP)

The price of palm oil is up 20 percent in the areas around the biggest city, Yangon, compared to the start of February, when the military ousted and detained ci...

In one French city, healing hardship on the front line for the jobless

Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)

When the doors open at 8:30 a.m. there's already a queue outside. In this gritty district of France's second city, neighbourhoods may have rustic sounding names...

Quake, tsunami, meltdown: Japan's 2011 disaster as it happened

Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)

The March 11, 2011 tremor, which triggered a catastrophic tsunami and nuclear disaster, was unlike anything Sayori Suzuki had experienced in her coastal town of...

HASC leaders call for drawdown of National Guard troops at Capitol

Mar 11, 2021 (UPI)

Representatives Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Mike Rogers, R-Ala., issued a joint statement Thursday calling for a drawdown of National Guard troops in the area. "We...

Jeff Bezos names Andrew Steer to lead $10B Earth Fund

Mar 10, 2021 (UPI)

"I am deeply honored to have been invited by @JeffBezos to become the first President and CEO of the $10B Earth Fund," Steer tweeted. "It will address climate, ...

Pentagon extends deployment of National Guard in Capitol

Mar 09, 2021 (UPI)

Per a statement from Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, about 2,300 National Guard personnel will continue to support the mission -- a reduction of about half of th...

UN finds 'no adverse health effects' from Fukushima disaster

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

Since the last report in 2013, "no adverse health effects among Fukushima residents have been documented that could be directly attributed to radiation exposure...

Pentagon weighs keeping on National Guard at US Capitol

Mar 06, 2021 (AFP)

"We are in receipt of a formal request from the Capitol Police for continued National Guard assistance at the Capitol complex," Defense Department spokesman Joh...

Refugees trickle across India border from Myanmar turmoil

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

Myanmar's junta ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, triggering a mass uprising that the military has responded to with increasingly lethal fo...

Decade after Fukushima, Japan's nuclear industry stalled

Mar 04, 2021 (AFP)

The government still hopes to revitalise the sector, in part to reduce the country's dependence on energy imports as well as help it meet a goal of carbon neutr...