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Greeks count cost of wildfire ‘tragedy’ near Athens
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» PALAIA FOKAIA, Greece - In the municipality of Palaia Fokaia, an hour’s drive south of Athens, a typical bucolic Greek landscape of olive groves and hamlets was transformed by a raging Friday wildfire into a dystopia of blackened land and incinerated homes.
Hong Kong's first hydrogen-powered double-decker bus to hit the road in 1 month's time
South China Morning Post, Published on 12/02/2024
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's first hydrogen-powered double-decker bus will hit the streets in a month's time, with owner Citybus saying the vehicle had just started a round of road tests without passengers.
EU targets 1 million shells a year as Ukraine saps ammo
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» BRUSSELS - The EU will put forward a plan to boost its production capacity of artillery shells to one million a year, officials said Tuesday, as it scrambles to arm Ukraine and refill its own stocks.
Fukushima region forges renewable future after nuclear disaster
AFP, Published on 09/03/2022
» NAMIE (JAPAN) - Solar farms along tsunami-ravaged coastlines, green energy "micro-grids" and the experimental production of non-polluting hydrogen: 11 years after its nuclear nightmare, Japan's Fukushima region is investing in a renewable future.
'A little aid would help': Philippine typhoon survivors beg for food
AFP, Published on 23/12/2021
» SURIGAO CITY, Philippines: Jennifer Vetonio stands on a road in the southern Philippines begging for money and food from passing drivers. A week after Super Typhoon Rai destroyed her house, she has not received a scrap of government aid.
'We have nothing left': Philippine typhoon survivors plead for help
AFP, Published on 22/12/2021
» LOBOC, Philippines: Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai that left hundreds dead across the country and survivors pleading for food and water.
WHO warns of 'dangerous' variants as Covid cases rise globally
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» PARIS - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday that "more dangerous" variants of Covid-19 could tear across the world as global infections soared to half a million daily, largely driven by the virulent Delta strain.
12m to stay home in Australia as Delta strain surges worldwide
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» Australia's second largest city was preparing to enter a fresh lockdown Thursday, as countries across the world struggle to quash surges in Covid-19 cases propelled by the highly infectious Delta variant.
Desperate search for oxygen in Myanmar as latest Covid wave hits
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» YANGON: Residents across Myanmar's biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.
Oxygen prices leap in Jakarta as cases surge
Reuters, Published on 29/06/2021
» JAKARTA: Oxygen prices in Indonesia's capital had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday after a surge in Covid-19 cases that prompted the Red Cross to warn of a coronavirus "catastrophe" in Southeast Asia's biggest country.