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Fourth body found in Norway landslide, six missing: authorities
Jan 02, 2021 (AFP)
King Harald was due Sunday to visit the village of Ask, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of Oslo, where an intense search and rescue operation has been underw...
One dead, nine missing in Norway landslide
Jan 01, 2021 (AFP)
An entire hillside collapsed in Ask, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of the capital Oslo overnight Tuesday, burying homes or breaking them apart. "A dead bod...
Scores dead in PNG landslide; 10 missing after Norway mudslide; Aid arrives for Croatians
Dec 30, 2020 (AFP)
Local MP William Samb said the camp in Goilala was buried as miners slept early Monday. "Unfortunately there are no survivors from what we hear," Samb told ABC,...
Fukushima nuclear debris removal delayed by virus
Dec 24, 2020 (AFP)
The Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) had been scheduled to start removing melted fuel from deep inside one of the mangled reactors next year, a decade after the ...
Lives cut short: the American children lost to stray bullets
Dec 23, 2020 (AFP)
On December 2, he and his eight-year-old brother were in a car being driven by their father through southeast Washington, DC, when unknown shooters opened fire ...
Biden introduces environment team to tackle 'existential threat'
Dec 20, 2020 (AFP)
Biden said these nominees will "lead my Administration's ambitious plan to address an existential threat of our time -- climate change." "Folks, we're in a cris...
Bleak Christmas for Iraqi refugees stuck in Jordan
Dec 20, 2020 (AFP)
Up until 2014, when the Islamic State group swept the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq, Christians like Qiryaqoz had pulled out the stops over Christmas with cele...
In refugee camps, Palestinians prepare for post-Abbas power struggle
Dec 20, 2020 (AFP)
Abbas, 85, leader of the dominant Fatah movement and of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has promised legislative and presidential elections in 2021, for the fir...
Chinese citizen journalist to face trial after Wuhan virus reporting
Dec 18, 2020 (AFP)
The coronavirus first emerged in central China late last year, and Beijing has faced accusations that it covered up the initial outbreak and silenced early whis...
Fiji tourism hit with climate, pandemic double whammy
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
Now the 35-year-old hunts the neon-hued fish he once proudly showed off to international visitors, forced to kill the creatures he loves to feed his wife and fo...
Covid, pandemic and lockdown: how 2020 changed the world
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
In the last 12 months, the novel coronavirus has paralysed economies, devastated communities and confined nearly four billion people to their homes. It has been...
Ukraine seeks World Heritage status for Chernobyl zone
Dec 13, 2020 (AFP)
More than three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster forced thousands to evacuate, there is an influx of visitors to the area that has spurred officials...
Space research assists humanitarian aid efforts on Earth
Dec 11, 2020 (SPX)
In addition to supplying astronauts in space with a supply of tomatoes and lettuce, the technology behind MEPA could also be used in the future to provide food ...
Data shows demilitarizing police doesn't put officers or the public at risk
Dec 07, 2020 (UPI)
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, many police departments began acquiring armored vehicles, body armor and other types of military grade weapons ...
Can-do attitude: Wuhan virus lockdown captured in craft beer
Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)
Wang is a leading figure in the burgeoning world of Chinese craft beer and the Wuhan native founded one of the country's first specialised breweries, the No. 18...
Facebook changing 'race-blind' hate speech policy
Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)
The change in Facebook's algorithm is a shift from the social network's ethnicity and gender-neutral system that removed anti-white comments and comments such a...
China jails 53 for deadly factory blast
Nov 30, 2020 (AFP)
The blast in Jiangsu province in March 2019 was one of the worst industrial accidents in the country in recent years, and led to the closure of the plant. Execu...
Don't cut foreign aid, Malala Yousafzai urges UK
Nov 25, 2020 (AFP)
Rishi Sunak is expected to suspend a legal commitment to spend 0.7 percent of gross national income on international development. Reports suggest he will cut th...
Electric 'aero-ambulance' developed at the University of Sydney
Nov 25, 2020 (SPX)
Start-up company AMSL Aero, in collaboration with research partner the University of Sydney, autonomy and sensing specialists Mission Systems, and Australian ae...
Thanksgiving Feed-the-Troops meals to be delivered 'grab-and-go style'
Nov 25, 2020 (UPI)
The Defense Logistics Agency announced the changes motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday while ensuring that service members will still receive home-cook...
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