Tag: natural disasters

Zurich (AFP) - Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by ...

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year ...

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year ...

Washington (AFP) - Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and ...

Geneva (AFP) - Swiss insurers on Tuesday put the damage caused by last month's glacier collapse, which largely destroyed the ...

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's economy is set to shrink 2. 5 percent in the 2025/26 financial year, largely as a ...

Zurich (AFP) - The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely ...

Bangkok (AFP) - A Thai construction tycoon turned himself in on Friday to face charges of alleged negligence over the ...

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's garment manufacturers have warned that US tariffs threaten to hobble the country's recovery from a devastating ...

Bangkok (AFP) - A Chinese construction company is facing questions over the deadly collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper -- the ...