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Peace and ending hunger 'go hand in hand', WFP says after Nobel win
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
"This is a powerful reminder to the world that peace and #ZeroHunger go hand-in-hand," the Rome-based WFP said on Twitter. Spokesman Tomson Phiri, who had been ...
Yemen rebels slam WFP after Nobel Peace Prize win
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
Meanwhile, Yemen's internationally-recognised government welcomed the choice of winner, pointing to the "wise and courageous" leadership of the UN agency's exec...
'Ghost island' Phuket hunkers down in tourist-free Thailand
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
Swimming pools are empty, chairs are stacked high in deserted restaurants and normally packed beaches are so quiet they are even seeing rare species of sea turt...
Russia contains spread of arms depot fire
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
A wildfire broke out on Wednesday afternoon on the territory of a depot in the Ryazan region southeast of Moscow, reportedly containing some 75,000 tonnes of mu...
Giant rice crane urges South Koreans to 'Cheer Up!'
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
The slogan in Suncheon, 320 kilometres (198 miles) south of Seoul, is made up of different varieties of rice, planted to create shapes in the crop when viewed f...
Maryland Company Licenses NASA's New Search and Rescue Technology
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
"NASA's search and rescue technologies have saved the lives of thousands of people," said Eric McGill, a senior technology manager with Goddard's Strategic Part...
Russia evacuates thousands as munitions explode in fire
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
More than 400 firefighters were battling into the evening to extinguish a blaze that broke out at the depot on Wednesday afternoon, with the authorities saying ...
Woes of Beirut rescuers 'microcosm' of troubled Lebanon
Oct 05, 2020 (AFP)
Lebanese firefighter Afraa Obeid, a 27-year-old woman with long black hair, recounted how she lost her close friend Sahar Fares in the August 4 Beirut port blas...
How Aerospace Corp supports the satellites helping wildfire responders save lives
Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)
When a lightning storm set Northern California ablaze in August, first responders turned to data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), a s...
'Make it safer': calls grow to reform Myanmar's deadly jade trade
Oct 01, 2020 (AFP)
Heavy rainfall in July triggered a massive landslide in Hpakant -- the green heart of Myanmar's jade trade in northern Kachin state -- that entombed nearly 300 ...
Pandemic panners: Indonesians hunt for gold in desperate times
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
Spooked by the economic destruction wrought by the pandemic, consumers and investors around the world have been snapping up gold, which is seen as a hedge again...
Stranded babies, sobbing parents: Pandemic splits surrogates from families
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
China banned all forms of surrogacy -- both commercial and altruistic -- in 2001 due to concerns poor women were being exploited. But for $35-75,000 couples can...
TikTok urges social media alliance against suicide content
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
The Chinese-owned app said it had set out its proposal in a letter to the chief executives of Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Snapchat, P...
Greek PM to visit storm-stricken areas as reconstruction begins
Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)
"The prime minister will visit Karditsa on Tuesday," the government's deputy spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni told state TV ERT, referring to the central Greek ci...
Lebanon army surveys 85,000 building units post-Beirut blast
Sep 19, 2020 (AFP)
The August 4 explosion of hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port killed more than 190 people, wounded thousands and ravaged large parts of...
'Just God, the water and us': risking the Channel 'death route' to Britain
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
He's managed to cross the so-called death route. His friend Falah, though, is still waiting. For three weeks, two AFP teams followed Walid, a Kuwaiti, Falah, an...
Trump and Harris head for California as US wildfires ignite political row
Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)
The history-making blazes have now burned through nearly five million acres (two million hectares) across the US West, torching an area roughly the size of the ...
Fires, fear and guns on America's wild West Coast
Sep 13, 2020 (AFP)
The 70-year-old fled 30 miles (50 kilometers) from her home to Estacada in Portland's southeast as the huge and still-uncontained Riverside Fire raced through. ...
NASA takes an insured look at hailstorm risk
Sep 11, 2020 (SPX)
That's why a team of NASA scientists is working with international partners to use satellite data to detect hailstorms, hail damage, and improve our understandi...
Unconscious learning fosters belief in God, study finds
Sep 09, 2020 (UPI)
"Belief in a god or gods who intervene in the world to create order is a core element of global religions," Adam Green, an associate professor of psychology at ...
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