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The Chaiten volcano in northern Patagonia, Chile, had been dormant for 9,500 years under its obsidian dome before erupting spectacularly and without warning one year ago, spewing ash 20km (12 miles) into the air and forcing the local population to...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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Due to severe flooding and resultant deaths and damages the department of Natural Disaster Management has imposed emergency in some parts of the country.
The death...
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These days, a number of architects and designers are exploring humanitarian design for people hit by a natural disaster or any other emergency. Under the brand Urban...
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At least 50 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that struck central Italy, Italian officials say.
Five children are said to be among the dead and many...
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New Zealand will provide up to $100,000 in aid to Fiji in the wake of floods that have left seven people dead. However the money will go directly to the Red Cross...
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Everyday, people around the globe are threatened by storms, floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and other natural hazards and suffer because of their social,...
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Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our time.It has become a very serious issue world over.Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our...
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As I read the local paper today, another incidence of a cloudburst is reported from the Rajgarh area of Himachal. Unlike tropical cyclones, tornadoes and hurricanes,...
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As if the poor Burmese people hadn’t already suffered enough under a brutally oppressive, communist regime, they suffered further loss and damage at a...
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Global warming has become a reality. This has led to climate change and a massive increase in the frequency of occurance of natural disasters such as floods,...
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To prevent natural disasters from becoming catastrophic in terms of the critical civil infrastructure or life losses and property damages, a project is undertaken at...
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China may face severe natural disasters and water shortages soon! And, none other than the global warming is to be blamed for it! Irrespective of its seeking to tame...
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The already wretched victim to natural calamities, Indonesia has been pounced with disasters like flash floods that have killed 100 people and displaced more than...
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The rural areas of China witness 80 percent of deaths and destruction of 2 million homes every year caused by natural and weather disasters like — drought,...
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Scan through on what the nature is doing with us!! Is it just the start of the retaliations of what assaults we made on the environment we live in?
Strong quake struck...
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More than 150 bird species have become extinct in the last 500 years. Now, every eighth bird is in danger. 1211 species (12 percent of the total) are threatened with...
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