By Takemichi Nishibori, Yoshinori Hayashi, Yukiko Nagatomi, and Ryo Inoue25 June 2011 IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture – Rubble, some of it potentially radioactive, continues to be a headache for municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture although the government has finally come up with...
Aerial view of South Sudan’s capital, Bentiu, which became an island surrounded by floodwaters after record-breaking rains in October 2022. Photo: Charlotte Hallqvist / UNHCR 21 October 2022 (UNHCR) – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging international support for...
NEW BATAAN, Philippines, 7 December 2012 (AP) – Rescuers were digging through mud and debris Friday to retrieve more bodies strewn across a farming valley in the southern Philippines by a powerful typhoon. The death toll from the storm has...