Lessons learned: Post-accident crisis management is almost non-existent in Nepal

The Sita Air crash near the airport on 28 September happened exactly one year after the Buddha Air crash at Kot Danda, and barely six months after an Agni Air plane hit a mountainside in Jomsom. In...

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Japanese workers begin search for tsunami bodies in Okawa 19 months later

Okawa, an area to the south of the Kitakami river, which flooded despite extensive embankments, was left beneath the level of the sea due to the massive surface movements caused by the March 11, 2011...

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Northeast Nigeria hospital overwhelmed by dead bodies

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigerian officials dumped dozens of corpses in front of a hospital in northeast Nigeria after soldiers opened fire and killed more than 30 civilians. The hospital, overwhelmed...

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Floods kill seven in Russia's Dagestan region

Heavy rains caused flooding that killed seven people in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. About 320 homes in the Caspian Sea coastal...

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