DISASTER MANAGEMENT - INDO DAILY

Revolutionizing crisis response across Europe with the Safeplace Initiative

Oct 16, 2024 (SPX)

Safeplace is designed to deliver vital information to first responders swiftly, which can be lifesaving in events such as floods, earthquakes, fires, and chemic...

Ciseres AI satellites aim to revolutionize disaster response

Oct 16, 2024 (SPX)

Satellites have long played an essential role in disaster management, providing views of affected regions and maintaining communications when ground networks ar...

China tells Israel 'humanitarian disasters' in Gaza must end

Oct 14, 2024 (AFP)

"Humanitarian disasters in Gaza should not continue and...countering violence with violence cannot truly address the legitimate concerns of all parties," Wang t...

Seven die from gas poisoning in eastern China: state media

Oct 13, 2024 (AFP)

The incident took place Saturday afternoon at the Weifang Jinshi company in Shandong province, the Xinhua news agency quoted emergency officials as saying. Resc...

Despite hurricanes, Floridians refuse to leave 'paradise'

Oct 12, 2024 (AFP)

"You persevere when you live in Florida," the 42-year-old said as she moved tree branches and other debris out of the restaurant she runs on Siesta Key, an idyl...

Boat captain rescued clinging to cooler in Gulf of Mexico; as some lose everything

Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)

A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued the captain Thursday, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from Longboat Key, and brought him to a Tampa hospital for treatment,...

Supercharged hurricanes trigger 'perfect storm' for disinformation

Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)

False accusations of the government waging "weather warfare" spread online with social media posts claiming the storms were "deliberately deployed against red s...

Tearful Turkish-Lebanese evacuate Lebanon by sea

Oct 09, 2024 (AFP)

"I feel we're being ripped away from our country," the 42-year-old who did not want to give her surname said. "Lebanon is our country. It was the best country. ...

Biden slams Trump for 'onslaught of lies' over hurricanes

Oct 09, 2024 (AFP)

Biden warned that Milton, which is barreling towards Florida, was "looking like the storm of the century" and said misinformation could harm people who need hel...

Paying out disaster relief before climate catastrophe strikes

Oct 09, 2024 (AFP)

Faced with a flood, superstorm or mega-fire, "the earlier you get the money, the better", Ranil Dissanayake, a researcher at the Center for Global Development, ...

Survivors wait for aid as Trump's lies help cloud Helene response

Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)

Ten days after Helene carved a path of destruction through the southeastern United States, many residents are still cut off -- from federal assistance, from ele...

'Evacuate now, now, now': Florida braces for next hurricane

Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)

As the second huge hurricane in as many weeks rumbled toward Florida's west coast, a sense of looming catastrophe spread as people raced to board up homes and f...

Lebanon's children shelter in schools amid war

Oct 06, 2024 (AFP)

"I miss my friends and teachers," the 14-year-old wearing glasses told AFP inside a classroom-turned-shelter in Beirut's southern suburbs. Lebanon has postponed...

A 'forgotten' valley in storm-hit North Carolina, desperate for help

Oct 05, 2024 (AFP)

"Every major bridge into town is completely gone," Christy Edwards, a resident of the valley, told AFP. She was speaking near the site of her former craft shop ...

Elephants evacuated, animals stranded in floods in Thailand

Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)

Saengduean Chailert, director of the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai province, had posted a video of the panic-stricken elephants splashing through muddy wat...

Taiwan cleans up after Typhoon Krathon batters south

Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)

The Central Weather Administration (CWA) lifted its typhoon warning early Friday as the storm slowly dissipated after slamming into the island the day before, b...

UN raises plight of migrant workers in Lebanon; Sierra Leone migrants trapped

Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)

The UN's International Organization for Migration said foreign domestic staff were increasingly being abandoned by the Lebanese families to face heightened dang...

After Helene's destruction, North Carolina starts to rebuild

Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)

To get food and water, for days she's had to don a backpack and trudge past mounds of debris left by the killer storm as it destroyed everything in its path. "T...

Biden, Harris to visit Hurricane Helene disaster zone

Oct 02, 2024 (AFP)

Biden will visit North Carolina, where he will make a helicopter trip over the flood-hit city of Asheville, one of the places worst hit by the storm's deadly ra...

1,000 troops to be mobilized to support Helene recovery

Oct 02, 2024 (UPI)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday authorized the mobilization of as many as 1,000 soldiers to assist with recovery efforts in the aftermath of the ...