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Hong Kong's coastal businesses pick up pieces after typhoon
Sep 25, 2025 (AFP)
Businesses in the financial hub's coastal areas have been devastated by Ragasa, the strongest typhoon of the year, which killed at least 14 people in southern T...
Planetary health check warns risk of 'destabilising' Earth systems
Sep 24, 2025 (AFP)
A team of global scientists assessed that seven of nine so-called "planetary boundaries" -- processes that regulate Earth's stability, resilience and ability to...
Philippine protest arrests leave parents seeking answers
Sep 22, 2025 (AFP)
At least 88 minors were among those taken into custody as police deployed water cannon and deafening sirens against crowds of mostly young, rock-throwing protes...
No pause for food delivery riders during Pakistan's monsoon
Sep 22, 2025 (AFP)
GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time
Sep 17, 2025 (JPL)
A recent tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula sent pressure waves to the upper layer of the atmosphere, NASA scienti...
'License to kill': Experts warn on legality of US anti-drug strikes
Sep 17, 2025 (AFP)
The US military has destroyed at least two boats carrying a combined 14 people who were allegedly transporting drugs across the Caribbean this month, with Trump...
Global search and rescue system gets recognition as real lifesaver
Sep 09, 2025 (UPI)
The NOAA-backed international COSPAS-SARSAT program, which is a global satellite-based monitoring initiative, is using Wednesday as its first-ever Global Search...
Morocco earthquake survivors protest to demand housing aid
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
Marking the disaster's second anniversary, dozens of protesters gathered outside parliament in the Moroccan capital, protesting what they described as their "ex...
Spain to hold state funeral for 2024 flood victims
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
The ceremony will take place on October 29 in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences complex, a year to the day after muddy torrents killed 236 people and wrecked...
UK government looks to military sites to house migrants
Sep 07, 2025 (AFP)
"We are looking at the potential use of military and non-military use sites for temporary accommodation for the people who come across on these small boats," De...
Kids age five to take gun safety class in US state of Tennessee
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
A bill mandating these courses was passed in 2024 by the state legislature and the law takes effect in public schools with the start of the new academic year as...
UN says Afghan quake could impact 'hundreds of thousands'
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
"We think potentially the impacted individuals would go up to almost into the hundreds of thousands," Indrika Ratwatte, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Afgha...
Floods leave women struggling in Pakistan's relief camps
Aug 31, 2025 (AFP)
Waiting for the water that swallowed their homes to recede, women in Chung, a settlement on Lahore's outskirts, have limited access to sanitary pads and essenti...
FEMA employees suspended over letter critical of Trump admin
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
The Trump administration on Tuesday suspended several employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after they publicly expressed outrage over ...
FEMA employees bash Trump admin on Hurricane Katrina anniversary
Aug 25, 2025 (AFP)
Over 180 current and former employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) expressed outrage on Monday at Trump administration policies, in an o...
10 dead, 4 missing after bridge collapses in China
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
Ten people were killed and four are missing after part of a bridge under construction collapsed on Friday in northwest China, state media reported. A video publ...
12 dead, 4 missing after bridge collapses in China
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
Twelve people were killed and four are missing after part of a bridge under construction collapsed Friday in northwest China, state media reported. A video publ...
Robots deployed for Fukushima radioactive debris removal
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
Japanese technicians at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have sent in remote-controlled robots to one of the damaged reactor buildings as part of preparatio...
Survivors claw through rubble after deadly Pakistan cloudburst
Aug 19, 2025 (AFP)
In the middle of the night, by the glow of their mobile phones, rescuers and villagers dug through the concrete remains of flattened houses after massive rocks ...
Rain halts rescue operation after Pakistan floods kill hundreds
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
Rain on Monday halted search and rescue operations in northern Pakistan after flash floods that have killed nearly 350 people with around 200 still missing, off...
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