HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in ...
A search and rescue mission for nine people was underway Friday off the coast of southern California following a collision between a Coast ...
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 10: Members of the Royal New Zealand Navy load supplies onto the HMNZS Canterbury as it prepares to embark on a tsunami relief mission at the Devonport Naval Base on October 10, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. ...
The massive relief effort following Indonesia's deadly earthquake received a boost Friday when U.S. Navy ships and helicopters arrived to distribute aid and help thousands of struggling survivors. Indonesian officials said Friday the death toll from the Sept. 30 quake on Sumatra ...
Obama extends condolences to Philippines storm victims, cites ongoing US relief efforts there President Barack Obama is expressing his condolences for the loss of life and devastation caused by recent storms in the Philippines. In a statement late Tuesday, Obama said he ...
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Rescue workers with boats and helicopters struggled on Tuesday to deliver rations to about 5 million victims of flooding triggered by torrential rains in southern India. The floods in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, described by officials as the ...
The United States said Monday its military forces were carrying out rescue missions, delivering aid and providing medical care for victims of the flooding in the Philippines. "US forces are helping support rescue operations for victims of the flooding, as well as ...
Fears grew in tsunami-battered Samoa of deadly outbreaks of disease in the wake of the tragedy as planeloads of medical supplies were rushed to the Pacific island nation. Following Tuesday's tsunami, spawned by a massive 8.0-magnitude undersea quake, the number of dead ...
The death toll from Indonesia's massive earthquake will likely double as officials reach rural communities wiped out by landslides that buried more than 600 people under mountains of mud, most of them guests at a wedding celebration. Virtually nothing remained of four ...
A typhoon that threatened to bring more devastation to millions of flood survivors in the Philippines veered from the disaster zone Saturday, but officials warned it could still cause major damage. Typhoon Parma, billed earlier as a supertyphoon as it raced toward ...
Samoa is planning a mass burial for victims of the tsunami that devastated the Pacific island earlier this week, the government said, as the death toll from the disaster crept towards 200. Many families were already burying their loved ones in unmarked ...
Samoa is planning a mass burial for victims of a tsunami that devastated the Pacific island earlier this week, the government said, as the death toll from the disaster crept towards 200. Some families were already burying their loved ones in unmarked ...
