Aid groups are beginning to respond to the devastation wrought by the cyclone that hit Mynamar three days ago. Approximately 22,500 people are believed to have been killed and another 44,000 are still ...
JAKARTA — Best known as the home of the world’s rarest great ape, the mountainous Batang Toru forest landscape on the island of Sumatra has become a test case for whether Indonesia can enforce ...
Category four system strikes Far North Queensland coast as insurers mobilise disaster response teams and cyclone reinsurance ...
The WSWS spoke with survivors of Cyclone Ditwah, which has unleashed the worst humanitarian disaster in Sri Lanka in decades. Striking on November 27 before moving into India, the cyclone has left ...
PIDIE JAYA, Indonesia — A group of specialist Sumatran elephants have joined recovery operations in Aceh following the catastrophic landfall of Cyclone Senyar in late November — two decades after the ...
GENEVA, May 6 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Tuesday was preparing emergency aid in Thailand for swift dispatch to some 10,000 desperate victims of this weekend's devastating cyclone in southern ...
Additional disaster assistance is being rolled out across the Northern Territory, with Personal Hardship Payments now activated for communities ...
Sri Lankan Deputy Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Sunil Watagala Determined to suppress growing public anger over the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna/National People’s Power (JVP/NPP) ...
Yellow and muddied water covered the rice paddies, fields and villages. The enchanting tea hills have vanished, swept away by mudslides. Sri Lanka, often called the pearl of the Indian Ocean, was ...
ANTANANARIVO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Fierce winds left a trail of destruction in Madagascar as Tropical Cyclone Gezani hit the island, killing at least 31 people and leaving another four missing, the ...
The number of people killed by flash floods after Cyclone Senyar made landfall over Sumatra on Nov. 26 increased to 1,059 on Dec. 18. In Pidie Jaya district, on the north coast of the semi-autonomous ...
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