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RELIEF PACKS COMING Government employees and volunteers work double time to repack rice and other food supplies at the Department of Social Welfare and Development warehouse in Pasay City so these can be delivered to areas devastated by successive typhoons this month. —Richard A. Reyes MANILA, Philippines — The three tropical cyclones that hit the […]
Dominique Nicole Flores – Philstar.com November 18, 2024 | 12:17pm MANILA, Philippines — More than half a million individuals have been displaced by the combined effects of Typhoons Nika, Ofel and Pepito, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council reported on Monday, November 18. Of the 685,071 displaced persons, at least six in 10 found […]
A raging 3-alarm fire is responsible for injuring four firefighters and displacing more than a dozen New Jersey families, city officials said Saturday morning. Three residential buildings on Seymour Avenue in Newark were gutted before sunrise after the fire raced through each of the buildings in the middle of the night. City officials said the […]
Military authorities have been trying to show that all is back to normal in the Kayah State capital of Loikaw. They claim that colleges are reopening and they’ve offered food and cash to persuade displaced residents to return. But is anyone going back? And if so, what do they face? This week’s story is by […]
State employees who have fled conflict say they feel betrayed by the regime for failing to reassign or keep paying them, while those still serving in conflict zones go months without salaries. By FRONTIER In late February, Daw Kyawt Kyawt Khin left the village school where she had taught for more than two decades. Fighting […]
4 Yucatan is being displaced from among the main producers of habanero chili in the country, even though it already has a certificate of origin, the process for this to enter into operation is still not consolidated, which allows other states to produce Habanero and sell it to large companies. Currently, there are at least […]
NEW LONDON, CT — Nine people were displaced by a fire Sunday in New London, according to authorities. Firefighters responded around 11:30 a.m. to the 200 block of Montauk Avenue, where a blaze started outside a residential building and extended into the kitchen of a first-floor apartment before it was contained, authorities said. The building […]
Four St. Albert families are left without a home after a large blaze at the Grandin Village townhouse complex on Friday night. Crews were called around 8:44 p.m. – 24 St. Albert firefighters and 18 Edmonton firefighters were needed to battle the blaze. “It’s terrifying. It’s destructive,” said Hanson Gould, whose home was damaged in […]
The Sanctuary Runners, a Cork-based movement that promotes solidarity through sport, are spearheading the Global Solidarity Run this weekend, a worldwide event aimed at supporting forcibly displaced people and those living in extreme poverty. Founded in Cork in 2018, the organisation has quickly grown, and this 48-hour run marks its largest international initiative to date. […]
Sometimes I think about all of the societal issues I cared about 10 years ago: privacy, government overreach, and platform accountability. More and more as I look at the technological landscape it feels like none of that care seems to have mattered. When I worked on the Societal Health team at Twitter I had a […]