DISASTER MANAGEMENT - INDO DAILY

Hundreds protest as Lebanon marks 3 years since Beirut blast

Aug 04, 2023 (AFP)

Nobody has been held to account for the tragedy as political and legal pressures impede the investigation. On August 4, 2020, the massive blast at Beirut port d...

China says natural disasters caused 147 deaths or disappearances in July

Aug 04, 2023 (AFP)

China has been hit hard by extreme weather in recent months, from record-breaking heatwaves to deadly rain. Torrential rain brought on in the aftermath of Storm...

Earthquake-hit Turkey pulls out of hosting key UN nature talks

Aug 03, 2023 (AFP)

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) said the Turkish government had decided to withdraw from presiding over the COP16 meeting "due to a ...

Burnt-out car transport ship limps into Dutch port

Aug 03, 2023 (AFP)

Tugboats brought the Fremantle Highway to the northern port of Eemshaven, where dozens of spectators lined a sea wall to watch the scorched, blackened hulk move...

Still no answers three years after Beirut mega-explosion

Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)

Three years on, the probe into the traumatic disaster caused by a huge pile of poorly-stored fertiliser remains bogged down in legal and political wrangling, to...

At least 11 killed, 27 missing in Beijing rainstorms

Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)

Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoon, had swept northwards through China since hitting southern Fujian province on Friday after first scything through the Phil...

Battling drug crisis, Iraq searches for cure

Jul 31, 2023 (AFP)

Iraq, which borders with Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, has long been a transit country for the region's ballooning trade in the amphetamine-type drug and other ...

'Silk of peace' weaves new bonds in post-quake Turkey

Jul 28, 2023 (AFP)

"I had to convince myself to start up again," admits Emel Duman, rolling between her fingers a small and incredibly fine ball of fibres. The yellow cocoons, wit...

Spain court finds Swedish firm not liable for disaster costs

Jul 28, 2023 (AFP)

The regional government of Andalusia was seeking 89 million euros ($98 million) in compensation from the firm over the spill, which contaminated a vast stretch ...

Yellen flags insurance 'protection gap' in climate disasters

Jul 28, 2023 (AFP)

At an open session meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), Yellen noted that "some insurers have begun raising the rates for homeowners' in...

Humanity 'has agency over future': new head of UN climate panel

Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)

Skea takes charge of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a crucial decade which will determine the extent of warming and its impact on the p...

'Guardian angels': Rhodes locals help fire-stranded tourists

Jul 25, 2023 (AFP)

While the inferno has wrought havoc on the dream vacation of thousands of tourists, a few hundred of them have found shelter at the Rodion School in the island'...

'Slow disaster': Indonesians in sinking village forced to adapt

Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)

That is just one of many landmarks in the Javan coastal village of Timbulsloko swallowed by rising tides, which have forced residents to adapt to a new life on ...

India landslide toll jumps to 27, at least 50 missing

Jul 23, 2023 (AFP)

The landslide was triggered by monsoon rains on Thursday, smashing into a village in Raigad district, a hilly and forested site about 100 kilometres (62 miles) ...

Turkey's Antioch rises from the ruins, stone by stone

Jul 21, 2023 (AFP)

Vahit Baklaci, 82, returns every day to the house where he was born in the heart of old Antakya, which has been turned upside down since an earthquake on Februa...

Growing climate risks fuel surge in US home insurance costs

Jul 21, 2023 (AFP)

"My kids were born in Pensacola, and so we have a lot of friends in the neighborhood, we have some family here," he told AFP in a phone interview. But less than...

Hopes fade for Indian landslide victims as rescuers struggle

Jul 21, 2023 (AFP)

Heavy equipment cannot be brought to the hilly, forested site in Raigad district and emergency personnel scrambled at mounds of earth and rubble as families tri...

At least 16 killed in India landslide, dozens missing

Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)

India's National Disaster Response Force said Thursday that 16 people had been killed and that they had called off the rescue operations because of continuous r...

Deals on wheels: Housing prices drive young Chinese into RV living

Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)

The cheery yellow refitted van, named "YOLO" (You Only Live Once), gives He a commute of two minutes from bed to desk, and has saved her thousands of yuan a mon...

Rich-poor split could tighten 'grip of poverty': World Bank chief

Jul 18, 2023 (AFP)

Many countries are still recovering from the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and fallout from Russia's war in Ukraine -- which hit global fuel and commo...