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Peru deploys military to block undocumented migrants
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
Hundreds of migrants, who the United Nations says are mainly from Haiti and Venezuela but had been living in Chile, have been blocked for weeks at the border be...
Peru declares state of emergency to block undocumented migrants
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
Hundreds of migrants, which the United Nations says are people mainly from Haiti and Venezuela who had lived in Chile but are now trying to leave, have been blo...
Damascus slams EU sanctions as 'threat' to quake-hit Syrians
Apr 25, 2023 (AFP)
The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on 25 individuals and eight entities accused of involvement in human rights violations and drug trafficking in th...
Afghanistan-Pakistan border crossing landslide toll rises to eight
Apr 22, 2023 (AFP)
Tuesday's pre-dawn landslide hit the Torkham border post, the busiest trade and transit point between the two countries, as more than 100 trucks were waiting to...
Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO)
Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)
NASA's Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project - led by the agency's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California - is usi...
Top Mexican court limits army's public security role
Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)
The National Guard plan, approved by the ruling party-controlled Congress last September, alarmed Lopez Obrador's opponents and human rights campaigners, who sa...
Nicaragua breaks ground on housing construction with aid from China
Apr 17, 2023 (AFP)
The plan -- launched with China's International Development Cooperation Agency, whose director Luo Zhaohui arrived in Nicaragua Friday -- calls for building jus...
China official visits Nicaragua to launch housing initiative
Apr 15, 2023 (AFP)
Murillo did not give details of what would be built, but in April 2022 China committed US$60 million to finance subsidized housing in Nicaragua. "Comrade Luo Zh...
UAE and China promise Pakistan $1.3 bln to get IMF deal on track
Apr 14, 2023 (AFP)
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said the UAE had promised a billion dollars to prop up Pakistan's forex reserves -- which at their current level of $4.04 billion can...
Biden to hold first meeting with Colombia's leftist president
Apr 14, 2023 (AFP)
Biden will welcome Petro on Thursday to discuss key issues involving Colombia including climate change, drug trafficking and migration, the White House said. Th...
Indigenous protesters kidnap 16 Colombian soldiers
Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)
The army said in a statement that its soldiers were surrounded by more than 700 people preventing them from arresting a man "wanted for the crime of aggravated ...
World Bank could lend $50bn more over decade with reform: Yellen
Apr 08, 2023 (AFP)
Central bankers, finance ministers and participants from more than 180 member countries are expected to gather in the US capital for the International Monetary ...
Stress and trauma: Mental toll of Turkey's deadly quake
Apr 07, 2023 (AFP)
Turkish earthquake survivors clinging to the foot of soaring cliffs ringing ancient Antakya are quietly suffering the lingering toll of a disaster that killed m...
Mutation risks due to residual radiation from Fukushima nuclear disaster
Apr 07, 2023 (SPX)
The brunt of the disaster is usually borne by the floras inhabiting the contaminated areas since they cannot move. This, however, makes them ideal for studying ...
Video probe shows internal damage to Fukushima reactor
Apr 05, 2023 (AFP)
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) on Tuesday released a series of video clips from a robotic survey inside Fukushima Daiichi plant's Reactor 1, one of three that suf...
Turkey police tortured earthquake looting suspects: rights groups
Apr 05, 2023 (AFP)
In a joint report, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Turkish police and the armed forces of using the state of emergency declared by President Recep ...
Iraqis in asylum limbo in Jordan fashion their future
Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)
Many of the women escaped the extreme violence carried out by the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" that cut across swathes of Iraq and Syria, bef...
Tourists among four killed in Norway avalanches: police
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
According to police, a group of tourists were caught in an avalanche in the Kvalvikdalen valley in Norway's far north on Friday afternoon. "There were five peop...
Florida lawmakers approve permit-free concealed weapons
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
The bill, which passed Florida's House of Representatives last week, cleared the Senate on a 27-13 vote, at the state legislature in Tallahassee. When the measu...
UN raises quarter of $1 bn Turkey quake funds target
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
Donors have so far contributed $268 million to the $1 billion flash appeal issued by the UN following the 7.8-magnitude quake on February 6 and its aftershocks ...
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