Turkey commemorates last year’s deadly earthquake
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Turkey on Tuesday holds pre-dawn vigils for the loss of more than 50,000 people -- and parts of entire cities -- in the earthquake-prone country's deadliest disaster of modern times.Grieving Turks are still coming to terms with how a 7.8-magnitude tremor could upturn the lives of millions of...
US military Osprey with 8 crew crashes off Japan
Tokyo, Japan--A US Osprey military aircraft with eight crew on board crashed on Wednesday off a Japanese island, the coastguard said, in the latest accident involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft.It was unclear whether there were any survivors, but the coastguard said one unconscious person had been found at the scene and...
One dead as new earthquake rocks west Afghanistan
According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake occurred at a shallow depth at around 05:10 am local time with its epicentre about 29 kms north of Herat. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.3, hit an area where about 1,000 people were killed after a series of similar...Volunteers search for Afghan quake survivors as aid trickles in
Kashkak, Afghanistan--Afghan villagers and volunteers on Monday helped dig for survivors of a series of earthquakes that killed more than 2,000 people, as aid began trickling into the devastated region.Volunteers in trucks packed with food, tents and blankets flocked to hard-to-reach areas 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Herat city, capital...Aid groups warn of outbreak of disease in Libya after floods
Several aid organizations have warned of the outbreak of disease in the port city of Derna, after Sunday's flood submerged it, washing thousands of people and homes out to sea. The flooding left behind a trail of devastation after two upstream dams burst under the pressure of torrential rains triggered...
UNHCR urges more support for Turkey, Syria earthquake survivors
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) president Filippo Grandi concluded a five-day visit to earthquake-devastated areas of Syria and Turkey. He visited survivors, affected people and humanitarian staff working at the ground.The earthquake has claimed 54,000 lives in the two countries and caused massive destruction to...Hopes of finding survivors fade as Turkey-Syria quake toll nears 20,000
Bitter cold has hampered the four-day search of thousands of flattened buildings and threatened the lives of many quake victims who are without shelter and drinking water. Relatives were left scouring body bags laid out in a hospital car park in Turkey's southern city of Antakya to search for missing...
Death toll in Haiti quake jumps to over 1200
In hard-hit cities on the southwestern peninsula most of the population spent the night sleeping outdoors in front of their houses‘Wounded soul’: Beirut blast haunts scarred survivors
The August 4 blast that thundered through the city levelled entire neighbourhoods, killed more than 200 people, wounded 6,500 others and pummelled the lives of survivors.
