'Everything is gone': Bahamians stunned in Dorian's wake, 70,000 need immediate humanitarian relief
Stunned residents of the Bahamas surveyed the wreckage of their homes and officials struggled to assess the number killed by Hurricane Dorian, as the storm bore down on the South Carolina coast on Thursday, threatening record flooding. Some 70,000 people in the Bahamas needed immediate ...
U.S. aid chief pays surprise visit to Syria's war-ravaged Raqqa on stabilization push
The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official from the Trump administration to visit the war-struck northern city months after it was retaken from Islamic State. Green was accompanied by ...
Marines arrive in Nepal; trio rescued after eight days under rubble
Three people were pulled alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal's devastating earthquake, as a supply logjam threatened to hamper disaster relief efforts bolstered by the arrival of U.S. aircraft and troops. The small-scale rescue, announced on Sunday by a home ...
A second American infected with Ebola in Liberia was showing "continued improvement" as she arrived in the U.S. for treatment in an Atlanta hospital. Nancy Writebol, 59, an aid worker, was flown Tuesday to Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, then taken to Emory ...
