Hurricane Risk Prompts a Caribbean Bank to Disaster-Proof Its Finances July 11, 2024 By Ezra Fieser Hurricane Beryl ripped through the Caribbean last week, leaving small island governments rushing to find funds for the billions of...
Viewpoint: 5 Global Insurance Trends You Need to Know About in 2024 February 7, 2024 By Simone Grimes In the insurance world, 2024 brings forth many challenges and transformative trends. From the escalating global risks, such as climate...
Powerful Earthquakes Leave at Least 55 Dead, Destroy Buildings in Japan January 3, 2024 By Hiro Komae and Yuri Kageyama WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan have left at least 55 people dead...
Indonesia Fires Cause Smoky Haze, Prompting Calls for People to Work from Home October 3, 2023 By Muhammad Hatta and Edna Tarigan PALEMBANG, Indonesia (AP) — More than 300 forest and peatland fires on Indonesia`s Sumatra island caused hazy skies across the...
Communication Outage Complicates Search Efforts in Libya September 22, 2023 By Samy Magdy CAIRO (AP) — A day-long communication outage in a flood-stricken city in eastern Libya further complicated the work of teams...
Libyan City Buries Thousands in Mass Graves After Flood, Death Toll May Triple September 15, 2023 By Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad DERNA, Libya (AP) — The Libyan city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves, officials said Thursday,...
Dozens of Remote Moroccan Villages Struggle in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake September 12, 2023 By Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — The toll of the massive earthquake that devastated Morocco could be seen Monday in dozens of...
Severe Flooding in Greece Leaves at Least 4 Dead and 6 Missing, Villages Cut Off September 8, 2023 By Elena Becatoros ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Widespread flooding in central Greece left at least four people dead, six missing and dozens trapped,...
As Death Toll from Maui Wildfire Reaches 93, Effort to Find and Identify the Dead is Just Beginning August 14, 2023 By Claire Rush, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Beatrice Dupuy LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — As the death toll from a wildfire that razed a historic Maui town climbed to 93,...
More People Go Missing and Thousands are Evacuated as Northeast China Is Hit by More Floods August 7, 2023 TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Rain continued to pelt northeastern China in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri on Saturday, as authorities...