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Pentagon pilots wide-ranging programs to reduce active-duty suicide

Mar 09, 2020 (UPI)

The Air Force last month announced a peer-to-peer support group to enable members to seek help. It is part of a strategy toward encouraging airmen to take proac...

Surf's up in Fukushima 9 years after nuclear accident

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

Suzuki's local beach, Minamisoma, is around 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and he still has vivid memories of Ma...

For some Fukushima evacuees, Olympics no reason for cheer

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

The area devastated by the 2011 tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster remains deeply affected by the crisis, with tens of thousands still living in exile from th...

Nine years on, state of the clean-up at Fukushima's nuclear plant

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

AFP was granted rare access to reactor control rooms and other parts of the plant for an update in the months before the Tokyo Olympics. - Damaged reactors - Se...

Moscow highway over radioactive dump sparks 'catastrophe' fears

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

Waving the device over a shallow dip in the thawing ground, the contraption crackles as the reading climbs, turning first yellow then red. The dosimeter is pick...

Wuhan residents decry 'fake' work as Chinese official tours city

Mar 06, 2020 (AFP)

The clips, which have been circulating online since Thursday, show occupants of an apartment block in the city of Wuhan yelling "it's all fake" from windows dur...

Coronavirus: UN asks 9 countries to delay peacekeeper rotations

Mar 06, 2020 (AFP)

The request was made to the countries "to maintain operational strength and execute their mandated tasks," diplomatic sources at the UN said. The nine countries...

Work with Turkey, NATO tells EU amid migrant crisis

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

EU members accuse Turkey of unleashing a wave of migrants for political ends, in an increasingly bitter confrontation over a new crisis on the Greek border. Tho...

China seeks to recast itself from virus pariah to helping hand

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

Beijing is keen to reposition the virus as a global outbreak and not just a China malaise as it sends testing kits and experts overseas and translates treatment...

Panic buying follows coronavirus across the globe

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

Obsessively documented on social media, scrambles to the shops and empty shelves are adding panic and confusion to the fight against an epidemic that has killed...

Japan lifts evacuation order for part of disaster-hit Fukushima town

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

The whole of Futaba, formerly home to some 7,000 people, was designated a mandatory evacuation zone after a massive quake-triggered tsunami in 2011 hit the Fuku...

Greek navy ship on Lesbos houses latest island migrants

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

A Greek defence ministry source said the migrants would stay on the transport ship until a new facility to accommodate them had been created on the mainland. So...

Hong Kongers hit hiking trails to escape coronavirus woes

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

While the financial hub is known for soaring skyscrapers and cramped housing blocks, its steep mountains and remote hiking trails offer welcome relief from the ...

WHO warns of mask shortages as virus cases rise worldwide

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

The disease, which first emerged in China, is appearing in new countries almost every day, with Iran, Italy and South Korea facing growing caseloads. The death ...

Erdogan demands EU help in Syria as price to end migrant crisis

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

Thousands of migrants have massed at the Greek frontier with Turkey since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced last week that they would no longer be preven...

S.Africa to airlift 151 from virus-infected China within days

Mar 01, 2020 (AFP)

The virus has spread to more than 60 countries around the globe -- killing nearly 3,000 people and sickening 87,000 -- prompting the World Health Organization t...

In virus-hit China, coat maker adapts to make hazmat suits

Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)

The company in the eastern China export hub of Wenzhou hastily repurposed its assembly line, putting the few dozen workers it could muster to produce thousands ...

Turkey says will not stop refugees who 'want to go to Europe'

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

"We will no longer keep the doors closed for refugees who want to go to Europe," the official said on condition of anonymity. Nearly 300 migrants including Syri...

Japan school closure plan stuns parents, officials

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

On Thursday night, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced he would ask primary, junior high and high schools to shut their doors for around a month, though nurseri...

Beijing ramps up crowd control measures on virus fears

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

In China -- where the new disease has killed nearly 2,800 people -- the spread of infections has slowed as many businesses remain shuttered and residents are en...