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Digital lifeline for refugees in Bulgaria -- and beyond
Feb 09, 2020 (AFP)
An energetic Bulgarian, Iva Gumnishka, 25, and her social enterprise Humans In The Loop (HITL) lent her a hand, linking Faizi to work created by the booming mac...
Albania quake exposes scourge of sketchy construction
Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)
As the country struggles to put the pieces back together, it is facing a structural reality that the disaster exposed: the scourge of illegal construction that ...
Hungarian police close Serbia border point as migrants gather
Feb 06, 2020 (AFP)
The attempt came a week after 60-70 people tried to get into Hungary at another Serbian border crossing under cover of night, prompting security staff to fire w...
Enhancing stability operations in under-governed regions
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
To overcome this challenge, DARPA is launching the Habitus program, which seeks to capture and make local knowledge available to military operators, providing t...
EU condemns US lifting of landmine ban
Feb 04, 2020 (AFP)
"Their use anywhere, at any time and by any actor remains totally unacceptable to the European Union", the EU's diplomatic chief Josep Borrell said in a stateme...
Release contaminated Fukushima water into sea: Japan panel
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
The proposal is non-binding and sets no deadline for the government to decide or carry out procedures to deal with the water. The panel has been weighing the is...
Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems face a perfect storm
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published Monday, mapped over 100 locations where tropical forests and coral reefs have been affected by climate extremes such as hurricanes, floods,...
Seven WWII bombs made safe at Tesla's German factory site
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
The defusing operation was completed "without any problems", a police spokesman told DPA news agency. The bombs in question were relatively small and dropped by...
'See the doctor': fever-hit patients fret in China outbreak city
Jan 24, 2020 (AFP)
At hospitals across Wuhan in central Hubei province, tense patients with high temperatures turned out in large numbers to get checked as the death toll rose to ...
At gates of Libya's war, a Tripoli hospital struggles to cope
Jan 22, 2020 (AFP)
Al-Khadra, one of the biggest hospitals in Tripoli, treated 33 wounded in one night after the attack on January 4, while 30 dead bodies also arrived at the faci...
Puerto Rico investigates unused emergency supplies
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
On Saturday, a Facebook user posted a live video showing a warehouse in the southern city of Ponce, filled with undistributed emergency supplies such as tents, ...
Living in tents, thousands of Puerto Rico's earthquake survivors wait for relief
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
Since December 28, more than 1,000 tremors have rattled the US island territory in the Caribbean, which just two years ago was devastated by two powerful hurric...
Huge sinkhole swallows bus, kills six in China
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
Footage showed people at a bus stop running from the collapsing road as the vehicle -- jutting into the air -- sank into the ground. Several people disappeared ...
Navy brings emergency beer to fire-hit Aussie town
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
More than a thousand people have been evacuated from the town of Mallacoota, with the military sending landing craft to collect families trapped there since New...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits China border state as Xi visit looms
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
Wearing traditional ethnic attire Suu Kyi danced with a street procession on Friday in northern Kachin state's capital Myitkyina, a day after supporters cheered...
Russian soldier who shot 8 at base blames hazing 'hell'
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Conscript Ramil Shamsutdinov opened fire on troops at his army base in the Chita region in eastern Siberia last October, killing eight and injuring several. Off...
Ten years after deadly Haiti quake, survivors feel forgotten
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Result: she is trapped in her village outside Port-au-Prince. It was meant to be a model for reconstruction of the country after the disaster. Instead, the 36-y...
Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
The camera study, published in the Journal of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, reports that over 267,000 wildlife photos recorded more than 20 species,...
Trump backs off threat to bomb Iran's cultural sites
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
Facing strong criticism that such attacks would be a war crime, Trump said he was "OK" with following international law. However, he repeated an earlier complai...
Japan could release Fukushima radioactive water into environment
Dec 24, 2019 (AFP)
The plant suffered a meltdown about nine years ago after it was hit by an earthquake-triggered tsunami. About a million tonnes of contaminated water has built u...
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