‘Reality remains tough as ever’, says Japan PM as extra $660m pledged for Noto earthquake rebuild
The earthquake hit parts of the Ishikawa region on New Year’s Day killing 241 people and sparking a major fire, water remains cut off to...
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China landslide kills eight and buries dozens in Yunnan province
Preliminary investigations show 47 people missing in mountainous region, state broadcaster reports Forty-seven people were buried in a landslide, with eight reported dead, in south-western...
Japan earthquake death toll reaches 100 as more survivors pulled from rubble
Number of missing lowered to 211 as thousands of troops join rescue effort and experts warn of disease risk at evacuation centres The death toll...
Woman in 90s pulled alive from rubble five days after Japan earthquake
Boy, five, among 126 people dead, after boiling water spilled on him during Monday’s 7.6 magnitude quake A woman in her 90s has been pulled...
Japan earthquake: death toll rises to 62 amid warnings of landslides and aftershocks
Ishikawa and its Noto peninsula, one of the worst affected areas, has been hit by more than 100 aftershocks Japanese rescuers were scrambling to search...
China earthquake: death toll rises to 134 as freezing weather hinders rescue efforts
Temperatures are as low as -16C in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, where the magnitude-6.2 quake struck on Monday The death toll from China’s earthquake has...
China earthquake: rescue efforts hampered by cold weather
Officials say at least 118 killed and more than 500 injured after 6.2-magnitude quake in Gansu and Qinghai provinces Cold weather is hampering rescue efforts...
Morocco earthquake: hope fades of finding survivors in rubble
Complicated rescue effort continues as questions remain about king and government’s response Hope of finding earthquake survivors trapped under their homes in some of the...
‘No one has come to help us’: grief and frustration in quake-hit Moroccan villages
As scale of disaster become clearer, people in small mountain communities feel they have been abandoned As the dirt roads leading to some of the...
Morocco earthquake: France ‘ready to help’ despite frosty diplomatic relations
France offers €5m to assist disaster relief efforts amid political rift between Rabat and Paris France’s foreign minister has said it is up to Morocco...
