Category: Disaster
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The Undying Amazon Fire
Brazilian Amazon forests, devastated by innumerable fires have shrunk by 1345 square km rendering homeless countless species of flora and fauna and raising concerns about President Bolsonaro’s environment policy.
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Sri Lanka faces severe drought
Sri Lanka’s state-run power firm has imposed daily power cuts for the first time in more than two years as a drought has slashed hydro-power output, highlighting the government’s failure to build new power plants. Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay…
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India grounds the 737 MAX
India will not allow U.S. planemaker Boeing Co’s 737 MAX aircraft to enter or transit its airspace after 1030 GMT, the ministry of civil aviation said, following the fatal crash of a plane of the same type in Ethiopia. The US remains the only major market in which the 737 MAX is still flying on…
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Boeing’s 737 nightmare
After the second crash of its latest passenger aircraft model, China has ordered all domestic operators to ground the Boeing 737 MAX fleet pending an inquiry into the safety of the planes. The Boeing 737 MAX is an American narrow-body aircraft series designed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes as the fourth generation of the…
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Measles cases soar worldwide
Just 10 countries were responsible for three-quarters of a global surge in measles cases last year, the UN children’s agency reported, including one of the world’s richest nations, France. Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the measles virus. Symptoms usually develop 10–12 days after exposure…
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Ebola center in flames in DRC
An armed attack on February 27, 2019 led to setting fires in an Ebola treatment center in the eastern city of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The armed assailants became embroiled in an extended gun battle with security forces. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the…
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MSF suspends work in DRC
Doctors without Borders is said to have suspended all non-essential work in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, February 17th, after the abduction of two of its workers earlier in the month. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world, despite its vast natural resources. The east of…
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12000 Chinese blood plasma contaminated
National Health Commission in China has warned hospitals to suspend use of 12,299 50ml bottles of plasma after it was found to be contaminated with HIV. The samples were taken from China’s second-biggest medical products manufacturer, China Meheco Xinxing. Human immunodeficiency…
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Losses from natural disasters have surged
The U.N. office for disaster risk reduction said that worldwide reported economic losses from climate-related disasters surged to total nearly $2.9 trillion over the past 20 years. Climate change is a disruption in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that variation lasts for an..
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Earthquake rattles Indonesia Island
A massive quake & tsunami ravaged the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, leaving 384 dead and hundreds missing. Indonesia is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is the world’s largest island country, with more than thirteen thousand islands. With over 261…