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No internet in Gaza. Screenshot from a video “Can Starlink Provide Internet To Gaza?” by Interesting Engineering. Fair use. When the combination of big tech and politics failed the Palestinian people by overlooking the internet disruptions affecting Gaza, grassroots technology known as the “network tree” came to the rescue. Utilizing the humblest of elements such as buckets, smartphones, and e-SIMs, this ingeniously simple technology provided much-needed connectivity to a community fragmented by war, in the face of severely damaged infrastructure. Since the war on Gaza began in the aftermath o...
Global Voices
Climate disasters are getting worse, but fewer people are dying thanks to better warning systems and planning, says a top UN official. "Fewer people are dying of disasters and if you look at that as a proportion of total population, it's even fewer," the new United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Kamal Kishore, head the UN's office for disaster risk reduction, said. “Twenty years ago there was no tsunami early warning system except for one small part of the world. Now the whole world is covered by a tsunami warning system," he said, referring to the 2004 tsunami that claimed approximately ...
Euronews (English)
Port Moresby (AFP) - Des vivres et des médicaments ont commencé à arriver mercredi sur le site d'un glissement de terrain qui a décimé un village entier en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, où les humanitaires découvrent des enfants rendus muets par le choc de la catastrophe. Quelque 2.000 personnes pourraient être ensevelies sous le vaste glissement de terrain qui a détruit une localité des hautes terres de la province d'Enga, au centre du pays, tôt le 24 mai, selon le gouvernement. Après plusieurs jours de fouilles à l'aide d'outils de fortune, seuls six corps ont été retirés de la coulée de boue. ...
AFP (Français)
Live helicopter footage on TV caught a stranded horse trying to escape the floods in Brazil. Image by Globonews, edited by Global Voices. Footage taken by a helicopter camera was being broadcast live on Brazilian TV, capturing a flooded neighborhood in the city of Canoas, when it caught a stranded horse standing on a rooftop — the only visible part of the building above the water. Estimating the building's height, the height of the tree to the right, or the depth beneath the surface was challenging just by looking. During the brief time he was filmed, the horse stood still — fragile, exhausted...
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Feature image designed using Canva Pro elements. By Matt Bishop, Tumasie Blair, Simona Marinescu, and Emily Wilkinson On May 27, the governments of the small island developing states known collectively as SIDS and their international partners will meet in Antigua and Barbuda. The goal of the meeting is to agree on the fourth decennial UN programme of action dedicated to their “special case for sustainable development,” under the tagline “charting the course toward resilient prosperity.” Known as “SIDS4” to insiders, the summit communiqué will agree on a framework for the Antigua and Barbuda Ag...
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The Greek trial of nine suspected smugglers of hundreds of migrants killed in a 2023 boat disaster in the Mediterranean was abandoned on Tuesday after the court in the port city of Kalamata said it did not have jurisdiction in the case. Only 104 people survived the June 2023 disaster south-west of Greece, which is believed to have killed up to 600 migrants. Greek media on Tuesday said the case, which involved nine Egyptian men between 20 and 40 years old who Greek prosecutors said had been identified by survivors as smugglers, was swiftly dismissed after members of the Greek coastguard told th...
DPA Breaking News
The trial of nine suspected smugglers held responsible for a 2023 boat disaster which killed hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean began in the Greek port city of Kalamata on Tuesday. Clashes reportedly broke out outside the courthouse between police and several dozen protesters campaigning for migrants' rights. Only 104 people survived the June 2023 disaster south-west of Greece, which is believed to have killed up to 600 migrants. The Greek public prosecutor's office said the accused - nine Egyptian men aged between 20 and 40 years old who were on board the ship - were identified by surv...
DPA Breaking News
A fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghor has claimed the lives of at least 50 people, including children, the local government said in a statement on Saturday. The statement added that thousands of houses, shops, agricultural lands, as well as bridges have been destroyed. The statement added that all roads connecting the provincial capital with the districts in the province have been blocked. “The victims have a severely dire situation with no access to shelter, water, food, and other necessities,” the provincial government statement read. Last week, he...
DPA Breaking News
Washington (AFP) - The container ship that collided with a major bridge in Baltimore, collapsing it within seconds, suffered two electricity blackouts in the moments before the disaster, a preliminary report by federal investigators released Tuesday said. The Singapore-flagged Dali also lost power during maintenance twice on the previous day, though the report by the National Transportation Safety Board said it was still probing what impact that may have had. It had been clear that the ship had lost power in the seconds before the stunning collapse. But the report is the first detailed examin...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The body of the sixth and final victim who died after a container ship struck a bridge in the US city of Baltimore has been recovered, Maryland state authorities said Tuesday. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major transit route into the busy port of Baltimore, collapsed on March 26 when the Dali container ship lost power and collided into a support column, killing six roadway construction workers. The victim was identified by authorities as 37-year-old Jose Mynor Lopez, a construction worker from Baltimore, Maryland, who had been working on the bridge when it collapsed. "Tod...
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