Crisis News
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Facebook has announced several new features for its Safety Check crisis tool. They make it easier to stay connected and assist other members of the community when disaster strikes. The announcement came hours after Safety Check was activated in London.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Venezuela's opposition said Saturday it would not resume stalled talks with the government next month over their country's grave crisis because a number of demands had not been met.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Venezuelan customs officers confiscated a shipment of medicine that a charity said Thursday was a donation for poor citizens suffering shortages in the country's economic crisis.Authorities said the cargo was an unauthorized import.
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By AFP
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More than six million Haitians are due to vote on Sunday in their latest attempt in an 18-month-long effort to choose a president and parliament.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Venezuela's opposition ratcheted up the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro at mass protests, announcing plans for a new march and general strike.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Opponents of Venezuela's leftist President Nicolas Maduro staged mass street rallies Wednesday as he held a crisis security meeting, resisting their efforts to drive him from power.
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By AFP
Paris -
As the political crisis in Spain dragged on, there had been speculation it might overtake Belgium's record for the longest spell without a government.
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By AFP
Seoul -
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday slashed its latest quarterly profit estimate by one third in the wake of a highly damaging recall crisis that ended with the scrapping of its latest flagship smartphone.
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By AFP
Luxembourg -
An EU court on Thursday upheld a decision by Brussels to freeze the funds of Ukraine's ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych as well as those of a son and top aide.
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By AFP
Paris -
The wave of terror attacks afflicting Europe is showing signs of "contagion", experts warn, at a time when the continent is already in the throes of an existential crisis.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Venezuela said private and public companies will be obliged to let their workers be reassigned to grow crops, in a dramatic move in the middle of the country's crippling economic crisis.
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Caracas -
Although it is not known what the particulars of the new agreement on the oil-for-loans deal involves between Venezuela and China, it does leave the world to wonder if this means that China will help the OPEC country through its economic crisis.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
Kenyan officials on Friday scrambled to work out what had gone wrong as the country faces a possible Olympics ban after being ruled non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
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By AFP
Bras -
Below are key dates in two months of Brazilian political turmoil where interconnected crises threaten to bring down President Dilma Rousseff.
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By AFP
Bras -
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff risks being driven from office if a congressional commission decides next week to launch an impeachment trial against her.
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By AFP
Moscow -
An AFP photographer based in Ukraine on Thursday was stopped from travelling to Russia as he was set to board a Moscow flight from the airport of Minsk, Belarus.
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By AFP
Bras -
Herewith are the key dates in Brazil's political upheaval where intertwining crises threaten to bring down President Dilma Rousseff.
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By AFP
Brussels -
The migrant crisis poses possibly the most serious threat to the European Union's existence since the bloc's foundation as the ghosts of nationalism increasingly haunt the post-war dream of unity, political veterans warn.
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London -
Earlier this evening, armed police gathered outside Bella Italia restaurant in response to a hostage crisis unfolding in the center of London. The issue has been resolved and no injuries reported. Below are the details as it happened.
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Google has announced it will donate 25,000 Chromebooks to refugees fleeing countries like Syria for the safety of Europe. The company says Chromebooks will be a good option for refugees because of the range of software available.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Mehmet Ali Duzcu usually holds a holiday party for his small team of colleagues in Moscow, but this year he is in no mood to celebrate.
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By AFP
Kiev -
Legendary Crimean winemaker Massandra, once a supplier to Russia's Tsar Nicolas II, has provoked the ire of Kiev by putting 13,000 vintage bottles up for auction on Tuesday.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Forget corporate holiday bashes where glitterati are treated to fine champagne and French delicacies: Russia's economic crisis has taken the glow off the holiday season this year.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Russia's Central Bank on Wednesday issued a banknote depicting famous landmarks of Crimea, commemorating last year's annexation of the peninsula that was slammed by the West and led to sanctions against Moscow.
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By AFP
Leeuwarden -
Seven-month-old Adam's nights are restless. The din and chatter of 600 other asylum seekers sharing a "camp" in the north of the Netherlands keeps this youngest resident awake, and his parents anxious.
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By AFP
Kiev -
Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov threw water at the reformist governor and former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, in the latest high-profile spat illustrating growing tensions within Kiev's pro-Western coalition.
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By AFP
Kiev -
US Vice President Joe Biden warned Russia on Tuesday that Western pressure on Moscow would only increase if Russian "aggression" against neighbouring war-scarred Ukraine continued.
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By AFP
Kiev -
US Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that Washington remained determined to see Russia adhere to a shaky Ukrainian peace agreement and hand back Crimea to Kiev.
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By AFP
Brussels -
Thousands of people are still making the difficult journey across Europe every day despite the approach of winter, taking huge risks to flee war and poverty in the continent's worst migrant crisis since World War II.
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By AFP
Moscow -
President Vladimir Putin called Tuesday on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to lend an additional $3 billion to Ukraine to help the ex-Soviet country pay off its debt to Russia.
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Members of the Fairfax County Urban Fire and Rescue Team head into downtown Ofunato to search for survivors following an 8.9-magnitude earthquake, in March 2011 DVIDSHUB
Flooding in a Queensland city KingBob86
3.2 million people in Somalia require immediate food assistance. Most were internally displaced people; the rest were affected either by the conflict, by drought and an underlying livelihoods crisis, or both. IRIN
ISIS local commader Abu Jandal, center, Free Syrian Army commander Abdul Jabbar al-Oqaidi on left, in June of 2013 after capture of Syrian airbase. http://eaworldview.com
The recent flooding in Pakistan has devastated large areas of the country. by DFID
A U.S. Air Force search and rescue team spots a boat tossed on its side amid residential buildings and other debris in Japan U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Katrina R. Menchaca
Trade unions in Belgium believe the Eurobonds can bring relief to the troubled Euro.
A woman being helped off her car in Queensland during the flood KingBob86
U.S. Air Force search and rescue personnel observe a universal distress sign on a coastal roadway in northeastern Japan U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Katrina R. Menchaca
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