Disaster News
|
By AFP
Geneva -
Conflict forced nearly 12 million people to flee within their own country last year, the highest level of such internal displacement in 10 years, international monitors said Wednesday.A total of 11.
|
|
By AFP
Nairobi -
At least 32 people died after a dam burst in central Kenya, sweeping away their homes while many of them were asleep, police said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Nairobi -
At least 32 people died after a dam burst in central Kenya, sweeping away their homes while many of them were asleep, police said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Savar -
Hundreds of Bangladeshis staged protests and tearful tributes Tuesday on the fifth anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disasters, when the Rana Plaza textile factory complex collapsed and killed at least 1,130 people.
|
|
By AFP
Savar -
The pain of waiting 10 hours with her leg crushed by bodies under the rubble of the Rana Plaza factory was hell for Nilufer Begum. But the five-year wait for justice has been just as agonising.
|
|
By AFP
Dhaka -
A Bangladesh court has sentenced the mother of the owner of the notorious Rana Plaza factory complex, which collapsed killing more than 1,100 people, to six years in jail for graft, a prosecutor said Friday.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a sombre ceremony Sunday as Japan marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left around 18,500 people dead or missing.The magnitude 9.
|
|
By AFP
Den Haag -
Relatives of victims of the MH17 air disaster demanded an apology Wednesday from far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders following a visit to the Russian parliament where he expressed "friendship" with Moscow.
|
|
By AFP
Toukyo -
A Japanese court on Tuesday ordered the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to compensate relatives of a 102-year-old man who killed himself at the prospect of fleeing his home.
|
|
By AFP
Taipei -
Rescuers Sunday ended their search of a Taiwan building partially toppled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake as the last trapped pair were presumed dead, bringing the final death toll to 17.
|
|
By AFP
Fukushima's nuclear power operator is hoping to double the number of visitors to its tsunami-ravaged facilities by 2020, seeking to use the Olympic spotlight to clean up the region's image.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Mounting concerns about the possibility of a nuclear war, along with US President Donald Trump's "unpredictability" have pushed the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" to two minutes before midnight, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Mounting concerns about the possibility of a nuclear war along with US President Donald Trump's "unpredictability" have pushed the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" to two minutes before midnight, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Den Haag -
Relatives of those killed in the MH17 air disaster have called for greater respect for victims' remains fearing some may be "playing a game" after a new discovery of bones.
|
|
By AFP
Geneva -
Conflicts, violence and disaster across Africa forced some 15,000 people to flee their homes every day in the first half of the year, international monitors said Wednesday. A total of 2.
|
|
By AFP
Danang -
The death toll from typhoon downpours and floods wreaking havoc along Vietnam's south-central coast has risen to 61, an official said Tuesday, as the country opens its doors to world leaders for this week's APEC summit.
|
|
By AFP
At least 49 people have died after Typhoon Damrey slammed into central Vietnam, disaster officials said Monday, as heavy flooding cast doubt on a planned retreat for APEC leaders' spouses to the ancient town of Hoi An.
|
|
By AFP
Jakarta -
Three suspects have been named in connection to a deadly blaze at an Indonesian fireworks factory that killed 48 workers and was caused by sparks from welding equipment, police said Saturday.
|
|
By AFP
Jakarta -
The owner of an Indonesian fireworks factory where 47 people died after a blaze tore through the building is being questioned, police said Friday, as labour organisations said the incident has exposed inadequate workplace safety standards.
|
|
By AFP
Tangerang -
At least 46 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a blaze that tore through a fireworks factory outside Jakarta, police said Thursday, triggering explosions and sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
|
|
By AFP
Jakarta -
Newly two dozen people have been killed and dozens injured in a blaze that tore through a fireworks factory outside the Indonesian capital, police said Thursday, triggering explosions and sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
|
|
By AFP
Hanoi -
At least 37 people have died and another 40 are missing as floods and landslides ravage north and central Vietnam, destroying homes and leaving rescuers scrambling to find survivors, disaster officials said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Hanoi -
At least 37 people were killed and another 40 are missing as floods and landslides ravaged northern and central Vietnam, disaster officials said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Ha Tinh -
Shaken residents in central Vietnam were piecing their homes and businesses back together Saturday after a powerful typhoon hammered large swathes of coast and killed at least four people.
|
|
By AFP
Typhoon Doksuri wreaked havoc on central Vietnam Friday, lashing the coast with fierce winds and heavy rains as tens of thousands were evacuated and three people were reported dead in the country's worst storm in years.
|
|
When Tropical Storm Harvey came onshore Wednesday morning, it slowed long enough to devour two more Texas cities, leaving Beaumont and Port Arthur underwater after unleashing over two feet of rain in southeastern Texas.
|
|
By AFP
Dhaka -
A Bangladesh court Tuesday jailed the Rana Plaza owner for three years for graft, the first of many charges laid against him after the garment factory complex collapsed in 2013 and killed more than 1,130 people.
|
|
By AFP
Freetown -
Authorities in Sierra Leone on Tuesday warned tourists and locals against swimming in the capital's waters after 60 bodies washed up following deadly flooding and mudslides in Freetown last week.
|
|
By AFP
Freetown -
Gathered in a Freetown church, worshippers struggled Sunday to come to terms with the devastation wrought by the flooding and mudslide that struck the Sierra Leone capital six days ago, as the arduous search for bodies continued.
|
|
By AFP
Freetown -
Sierra Leone buried at least 300 victims of devastating floods on Thursday, as fears grew of more mudslides and accusations of government "inaction" over deforestation and poor urban planning mounted.
|
apis-366127 apis-365683 apis-365668 apis-364348 apis-364168 apis-362329 apis-360628 apis-359657 apis-358888 apis-358055 apis-357260 apis-356573 apis-356559 apis-354083 apis-352510 apis-350138 apis-350056 apis-349323 apis-349242 apis-349164 apis-349173 apis-347903 apis-347894 apis-345529 apis-345430 apis-344156 apis-344007 apis-343447 apis-343284 apis-343047
Disaster Image
MOURNING: Visitors linger May 1 at a public memorial for victims of the South Korea ferry disaster at the Hwarang Public Garden in Ansan, the location of the high school where most of the victims attended. Piotrus/Wikimedia Commons
Amex mailer sent out to customers yesterday Flickr - puclic domain, mailer
President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talk with citizens who are recovering from Hurricane Sandy, while surveying storm damage in Brigantine, N.J. Pete Souza / White House
JETLINER: A Germanwings Airbus jetliner lands in Dusseldorf in 2012. Humphrey Manusiwa/Wikimedia Commons
Last Sunday morning's earthquake was powerful enough to damage hundreds of Northern California homes and businesses. Sscknapa/Wikimedia Commons
pinboke_planet via Flickr.com
Footage of the devastation of the tsunami in Japan Screenshot from Youtube
A destroyed road in Vermont, due to Hurricane Irene redjar
Flooded houses at Harbor Town in Memphis Chris Weiland
The widows waiting at the Fairmont Mine Disaster in 1907 Mine Safety and Health Administration of Dept of Labor
Memorial display for hundreds of schoolchildren killed in the sinking of the ferry Sewol is shown at Hwarang Public Garden in Ansan, South Korea. Piotrus/Wikimedia Commons
Workers must wear plastic suits and respirators for protection inside Reactor #4, where radiation levels remain so high shifts are limited to only 15 minutes per day. © Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE
A 3-day long media workshop, organized by global environment forum Third Pole in Kathmandu, Nepal from 13-16 October brought together, for the first time, journalists from China, India and Bangladesh to deliberate upon the effects of climate change in Brahmaputra/Yurlung Zangbo river basin
File photo: Coal Miner at work Library of Congress
Woman expresses grief and anger at the lives lost during the disaster. Sanjay Verma
Fires in Texas are the kind that often require FEMA information or assistance.
Protest on the 29th Anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. Sanjay Verma
Wind blows through the desolate town of Pripyat. On April 26, 1986, this amusement park was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations when the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred. © Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE
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
|
|
