Gayan, Afghanistan (AP) — Survivors dug by hand Thursday through villages in eastern Afghanistan reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, as the Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled t…
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Survivors report more symptoms than controls, but overall symptom burden decreased over time. Medscape Medical News…
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In 2016, the first ever World Humanitarian Summit brought together 9,000 participants from across multiple sectors and civil society, with the aim of creating meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable. Over 3,500 commitments were made, including the need to put survivors of natural disasters at the center of the disaster response and ensure no…
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More and more people are victims of fires. Are they getting the long-term care they need…
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As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its third year, countless people have experienced varying degrees of uncertainty, isolation and mental health challenges…
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This past Sunday over a dozen people lost their lives in the deadly fire that took place in the Bronx area of New York City, Originally it was announced that 19 people were deceased due to the fire, however, officials later provided an update and said that there were a total of 17 people who…
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Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire.
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They observed a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same minute the attack began eight decades ago. The post Survivors gather to remember those lost at Pearl Harbor appeared first on Boston.com…
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“We bandy around the words strength and resilience,” says Robin Roberts, who interviewed women who survived 9/11 for a new documentary. “These women embody that.”
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