The number of victims of a devastating earthquake that jolted Ecuador has risen to 246 dead and 2,527 injured, Vice President Jorge Glas said on Sunday, speaking to the press from the town of Pedernales.
India's federal government said on Saturday it would send a fact-finding team to asses depleting ground water situation in drought-hit Latur district of Maharashtra state.
Over half a million Filipinos in southern Philippines have been affected by drought due to prolonged El Nino phenomenon, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Thursday.
As the world marks the International Women's Day on Tuesday, the United Nations has sent a clear message that the global community need to step up efforts to support conflict-affected women and girls as many of them have been facing severe challenges and rooted inequalities.
The recent cluster of microcephaly cases and other neurologic disorders reported in Brazil constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew into a mountainous region in the country's northwest on Tuesday to review rescue and relief efforts, a day after a powerful earthquake killed over 228 people and displaced thousands others.
China's top economic planner on Sunday allocated 30 million yuan (4.9 million U.S. dollars) of emergency funds to the quake-affected regions in Tibet.
The Nigerian government on Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in 11 states.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front remained confident that their peace talks with the government would continue despite a fierce firefight in southern Philippines on Sunday that left dozens of policemen dead, a rebel chief said Monday.
Britain will conduct "enhanced screening" for Ebola among people traveling from countries affected by the disease, Downing Street announced Thursday.
Indian- controlled Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday said talks were only way forward to resolve Kashmir issue.
The Nepal government has said that the number of toll from flood and landslide had reached 105, while 20,000 people were displaced across the country.
North China's Liaoning Province is suffering the harshest drought in 63 years, and things could get worse.
The number of people killed due to landslides and flooding in southern Philippines went up to 56, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Friday.
The death toll from super typhoon Haiyan, locally named Yolanda, has risen to 5,924, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) said Monday.
Philippine Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda Tuesday assured that all the victims of typhoon Haiyan would be assisted by government, denying that some areas are being neglected as resources are being focused only in the Tacloban City and Leyte Province. This came after his president Aquino III's "But you did not die" provocative question to a
Death toll from super typhoon " Haiyan," locally named "Yolanda," climbed to 255 with affected individuals ballooning to 9.7 million, a senior government official said Monday.
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