A picture taken on March 3, 2016, shows the Mosul Dam on the Tigris River, around 50 kilometres north of the Iraqi city of Mosul. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP) SHANGHAI — Nearly 50,000 large dams worldwide could lose more than a quarter of their storage capacity by 2050 as a result of sedimentation build-ups, eroding […]
A woman stands in front of a destroyed house, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on Sept 12, 2022. (JUAN BARRETO / AFP) KIEV – More than 73,000 people have been evacuated from the conflict-affected eastern and southern regions of Ukraine in the past month, Ukraine's Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories said on Monday. […]
People pass by shops destroyed by legal decision for safety reasons on july 25, 2022, in Yaounde. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) YAOUNDE – At least six civilians were killed and eight injured when separatists in southwest Cameroon opened fire on a public bus on Tuesday, officials and the head of a regional hospital said. Separatists […]