s list does not include journalists who died of illness or were killed in car or plane accidents unless the crash was caused by hostile action. With 161 deaths in total, Iraq has the highest number of journalists killed with a confirmed motive. Another 56 media workers are reported to have died in the country, while the committee is still investigating the deaths of 27 journalists where motives have...
s list of journalists killed last year shows It's grisly to keep count as the International Press Institute's death watch tots up the number of journalists and media people killed during 2013 in the line of duty: at least 117 of them, the second worst total since records began. There's Syria, of course, with 16 journalists gone; but Iraq, with 13, most of them shot, somehow seems just as bad. But at...
Qatar World Cup migrant workers, violence against women, Syria, China in Africa and typhoon Haiyan were among the headlines and themes in a dramatic year ...
Survivors of typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines almost two months ago, are welcoming Christmas by crafting Christmas trees out of the wreckage ...
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By Christmas Eve, a country struggling with foreign loans and climate change will have spent $1bn on debts in seven weeks By Christmas Eve, the Philippines will have spent $1bn (£0.6bn) paying foreign debts in the seven weeks since typhoon Haiyan devastated much of the country. It will have spent a total of $8.4bn on foreign debt in 2013, and faces a further $8.8bn in 2014. While a little more than...
s festivities. Nothing is left. "The typhoon destroyed my tree and decorations. But what's important now for Christmas is that I'm together with my family," said Rose. Tacloban, the Philippine city that suffered the worst devastation from the super typhoon, which killed more than 6,000 and affected the lives of 11 million, is tentatively trying to regain its Christmas cheer. But in a city where...
Some say this is the end, everyone will die' – Dhanelyne Rose Hernandez on her Philippines family's struggle to recover amid the carnage of typhoon Haiyan The old people said that they haven't ever experienced this kind of typhoon . They said this is like the wrath of God because a lot of people don't believe in God. People still keep on stealing and doing bad things. Maybe this typhoon happened so...
My first emergency was Cyclone Sidr , which caused massive destruction in Bangladesh in 2007. I visited Kyrgyzstan during the conflict in 2010 and went to Ethiopia and Kenya during the Horn of Africa food crisis a year later," says Sandra Bulling, emergency communications officer for the aid agency Care International . On these trips, Bulling accompanies the emergency response teams, who are often...
ll be spending Christmas in the areas hit by typhoon Haiyan, having been on deployment with World Vision in Ormoc for the past few weeks. Power is still not fully restored after Haiyan, and I find the darkness unsettling. At night, most houses here use gas lamps and candles. Living without electricity for more than a month has definitely changed city life in this part of Leyte. Instead of the rituals...
Ukol Talumpa, who had survived previous assassination attempts, and his wife among four killed at Manila terminal ...
Secretary of state John Kerry pledges additional help during trip to storm-ravaged Tacloban The US is to provide nearly $25m (£15.2m) in additional humanitarian aid to help the Philippines deal with the devastation wrought by typhoon Haiyan last month, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, said after touring the worst-hit region. Kerry flew to central Tacloban city, where he visited a food distribution...
s five deadliest countries for the media. They were joined by India and the Philippines, which replaced Mexico and Brazil, although the number of journalists killed in Brazil, five, was the same as last year. Almost 40% of the deaths occurred in conflicts zones, defined as Syria, Somalia, Mali, the Indian province of Chhattisgarh, the Pakistani province of Balochistan and the Russian republic of Dagestan....
s fastest-temperature rise: 27C in just two minutes in Spearfish, South Dakota back in 1943. What happened in Lapland was, on the surface at least, not unusual, abrupt short-term weather change possibly caused by a convoluted jet stream. But in a major report this month, the US National Research Council warned that abrupt climate change was already being seen with the collapse of the Arctic sea ice...
Rules from the 1950s tie up US food aid in red tape. Congress should waive them when they cost taxpayer dollars and lives As a Filipino-American, I have reeled in shock and helplessness as thousands of Filipinos in Typhoon Haiyan-decimated Tacloban City were shown every day sitting, wandering, crying, with nowhere to go, without food, water, shelter, and medical attention. After six days and reports...
The activities of mining companies in Zambales province in the Philippines is disrupting life for the Aeta, a group of indigenous people. But they are fighting back ...
"The biggest challenge in my advocacy work has been planning and funding," says Nafieza Mohammad, 17 The devastation faced by my country today from the strong storms moves me to do more for the Philippines. I would like to concentrate more on environmental and peace building activities and to fight against the apathy of people. I am proud to say I have been an active environmental fighter since I...