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Indonesia's flood death toll rises to 67, 20 still missing
Reuters, Published on 16/05/2024
» JAKARTA - The number of people killed by weekend flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has risen to 67 and 20 are still missing, authorities said on Thursday, as the government plans to relocate survivors to safer areas.
Rescuers struggle to find Nepal quake survivors, deaths at 137
Reuters, Published on 04/11/2023
» KATHMANDU - Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country's worst earthquake in eight years killed 137 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi.
Caught up in war, Israel's migrants face tough choices
Reuters, Published on 25/10/2023
» MANILA/BANGKOK - Thousands of miles from home, Thai labourer Kamlue was on his way to harvest courgettes on an Israeli farm near the Gaza border on Oct 7 when the truck he was riding on came under heavy fire.
Volcanic lava in Spain's La Palma engulfs more houses
Reuters, Published on 10/10/2021
» LA PALMA, Spain: Buildings near the volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma were engulfed by rivers of lava early on Saturday, with the drama of the red-hot eruption intensified by the spectacle of flashes of lightning.
'Strangled by debt': Covid deepens Cambodia's loan crisis
Reuters, Published on 15/11/2020
» Trapped under a mountain of crippling debt, Cambodian farmer Roeurn Reth fears she will have to sell her land to repay microfinance loans that have ballooned due to pandemic-spurred job losses in her family.
Pope Francis confronts the Myanmar challenge
Reuters, Published on 27/11/2017
» DHAKA - Pope Francis begins a six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday.
Quake-proof dome houses prove popular in Japan
Business, Reuters, Published on 07/11/2017
» ASO, Japan: Nestled near a volcano in southern Japan, 450 quake-resistant dome houses put up by a health resort and decorated with flowers and dinosaurs are drawing visitors from across Asia.
Typhoon Lan leaves 3 dead, flooding in Japan
Reuters, Published on 23/10/2017
» TOKYO: A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, but then headed out to sea after largely sparing the capital, Tokyo.
Floods and landslides kill 37 in Vietnam
Reuters, Published on 12/10/2017
» HANOI: Floods and landslides after a tropical depression have killed at least 37 people and damaged homes and crops in northern and central Vietnam.
UN: Rohingya villagers ‘burnt to death inside their houses’
Reuters, Published on 11/10/2017
» GENEVA: Myanmar security forces have brutally driven out half a million Rohingya from northern Rakhine state, torching their homes, crops and villages to prevent them from returning, the United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday.