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N. Korea flood death toll rises to 133 with 395 missing: UN
AFP, Published on 12/09/2016
» SEOUL - The death toll from severe flooding in a North Korean border region has risen to 133 with another 395 missing and tens of thousands left homeless, the UN said.
Drawing out children's trauma in quake-hit Italy
AFP, Published on 28/08/2016
» AMATRICE (ITALY) - Inside a shady tent in the middle of quake-hit Amatrice, a little girl hunches over a table drawing a picture of the soaring mountains overlooking this small Italian town.
France on high alert two days ahead of Euro 2016
AFP, Published on 08/06/2016
» PARIS - Warnings mounted on Wednesday over potential terrorist attacks just two days before the start of Euro 2016, with France on high alert as it readies to host two million foreign football fans.
Battle against Canada inferno turns to oil sites, infrastructure
AFP, Published on 10/05/2016
» FORT MCMURRAY (CANADA) - Firefighters battled Monday to protect oil installations in Canada's wildfire-ravaged city of Fort McMurray, capital of the country's oil sands region, as rain and cooling temperatures slow the spread of the blaze.
Fans 'unlawfully killed' in Britain's Hillsborough disaster: jury
AFP, Published on 26/04/2016
» WARRINGTON (UNITED KINGDOM) - The 96 Liverpool fans who died in Britain's 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster were unlawfully killed, a jury found Tuesday following the longest-running inquest in English legal history.
Hillsborough disaster jury to deliver verdicts on Tuesday
AFP, Published on 25/04/2016
» LONDON - Jurors at the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster will deliver their verdicts on Tuesday, it was announced Monday.
Hillsborough disaster jury nearing full verdict
AFP, Published on 21/04/2016
» LONDON - Jurors at the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster have reached conclusions on all but one issue, coroner John Goldring said Wednesday.
Female Sherpas blazing trail for gender
News, AFP, Published on 19/04/2016
» When a deadly avalanche hit Mount Everest a year ago, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, one of the few Nepali women with expertise in climbing the world's highest peaks, headed straight there to help.
Nepal's female climbers blaze trails for their gender
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» KATHMANDU - When a deadly avalanche hit Mount Everest a year ago, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, one of the few Nepali women with expertise in climbing the world's highest peaks, headed straight there to help.
Hillsborough jury retires to consider verdicts
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» LONDON - Jurors at the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster retired to consider their verdicts on Wednesday, over two years since the hearings began.