disaster relief

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Woman pulled alive from buried home 10 days after Nepal floods

Rescue workers in Nepal pulled a 64-year-old woman alive from her home buried under mud and debris on Saturday, 10 days after catastrophic floods swept through the Himalayan nation, offering a rare moment of hope amid a disaster that has…

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Nepal reverses course, allows foreign rescue teams after deadly Himalayan flood

Nepal reversed its refusal to accept international search and rescue teams on Friday, bowing to diplomatic pressure from countries whose citizens remain missing after a devastating flash flood tore through the Himalayan border region three days earlier. The government approved…

Nepal monitors growing lake that poses new flood threat

Rescue crews in Nepal have been extracting survivors by helicopter from valleys devastated by a catastrophic flash flood triggered by a glacier collapse on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed past 500 and the government appealed Friday for…

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Nepal declines foreign rescue teams despite hundreds missing after flash floods

Nepal's Foreign Ministry said Friday that it does not need international search-and-rescue assistance following the devastating flash floods that tore through its northern border region on Wednesday, even as hundreds of foreign nationals from more than 30 countries remain missing…

TSMC donates $1.58M to quake-hit Kumamoto as fab resumes normal operations

TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, the world's largest contract chipmaker, announced on Monday that it will donate 250 million yen (approximately $1.58 million) to support reconstruction in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, where a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck on July 28.

Venezuela earthquake death toll passes 5,100 as IMF funds flow to rebuilding

The death toll from the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela on June 24 has surpassed 5,000, as the country secured $346 million from the International Monetary Fund to fund reconstruction and faced mounting criticism over its military's initial response to…

Google’s Android alert system warned Venezuela before twin earthquakes hit

Millions of Android smartphone users in Venezuela received early warning notifications seconds before two devastating earthquakes struck the country's northern coastline on Wednesday evening, providing critical moments to seek safety before buildings began to collapse.