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In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, generating an equally massive tsunami that caused unprecedented devastation to 14 countries and killing more than 230,000. Twenty years later, National Geographic has revisited one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history with a new documentary: Tsunami: […]
Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat on Sunday for a march against landmines after the US decision to send anti-personnel mines to Ukraine. Participants, including landmine victims and deminers, repeatedly chanted for “a mine-free world” during the four-kilometre (2.5-mile) walk around the famed temple complex in Siem Reap. The […]
Dozens of members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan’s leading group of atomic bomb survivors that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, are set to travel to Oslo next month to attend the award ceremony after achieving its crowdfunding target of 10 million yen ($65,000) to help cover travel expenses. The group, also known as the Japan […]
Tanzanian rescue workers dug through the ruins of a collapsed building for a second day on Sunday, hoping to pull survivors from beneath the rubble in a disaster that has claimed 13 lives. The four-storey block came down at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) on Saturday in the east African country’s busy Kariakoo market, in […]
Coercive debt and financial abuse are a “systematic” part of how sex traffickers operate in Canada, with at least a quarter of all survivors dealing with fraudulent debt. Julia Drydyk, executive director of the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking, says that research they did in 2020 on human trafficking corridors in Canada found that […]
DEAD TARGET: Zombie (MOD, Unlimited money) – The game is set in the near future, the world hit by an unknown virus that kills all life on its path, the remnants of the survivors are hiding in small towns, the virus has not yet had time to get to, your task will not only search […]
After floodwaters recede, search-and-rescue crews depart, and volunteers move on, survivors of natural disasters are often left picking up the pieces, many times with little aid or support. Often, this recovery process spans years, with individuals and families struggling to regain a sense of normalcy. This has been the reality for thousands in Eastern North […]
VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — A crowd of angry survivors of Spain’s floods tossed mud and shouted insults at Spain’s King Felipe VI and government officials when they made their first visit to one of the hardest hit towns on Sunday. Government officials accompanied the monarch who tried to talk to locals while others shouted at […]
Last Shelter: Survival – A popular game for your Android device in which you find yourself in the zombie apocalypse period. You have to survive in difficult conditions, in every way trying to adapt to them. Build your own city and populate it with survivors that would improve your defense and also ensure security. Also, […]
Watch first wave of flood water gushing through town in Valencia Emergency teams in Spain are continuing their efforts to locate dozens of people still missing in what is the worst flooding disaster in generations. More than 200 people are known to have died, with most fatalities happening in the Valencia region, but the death […]