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The funding brings to over €3 million the amount pledged by the Irish Government.
In Tacloban, babies continue to arrive and are the most vulnerable to the region’s problems.
The UN estimates more than 11.3 million people have been affected with 673,000 made homeless, since Haiyan smashed into the nation’s central islands on Friday.
Charities are warning that the death toll in the Philippines which is currently estimated to be around 10,000 – is likely to rise.
200 tarpaulins, 85 family tents, 10,000 blankets and other basic food and hygiene necessities are also being sent.
The earthquake reached 7.2 on the Richter scale.
Tons of highly toxic water spilled out when workers removed the wrong pipe during works.
Bodies were said to be ‘strewn all over’, according to police.
The ferry, which was carrying 831 passengers and crew, collided with a cargo ship and sank almost instantly.
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The investigation will focus on possible offences between 2006 and 2013 committed by individuals who are potentially responsible for the economic crisis.
The US state is coming to terms with the massive tornado which left 24 people dead and levelled entire neighbourhoods.
Preliminary causes of death suggest both infants – aged just four and seven months old – died of head trauma.
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“There are empty spaces where there used to be living rooms, and bedrooms, and classrooms, and, in time, we’re going to need to refill those spaces with love and laughter and community.”
The tornado, which ripped through an elementary school, has killed at least 51 people but the death toll is expected to rise.
The owner of the Tung Hai sweater factory was among the victims.
Following the tragic accident at a Bangladesh clothing factory, Penneys has said it will give money to people who lost family members in the collapse – but we as consumers have a responsibility too, says Ruth Tanner.
The death toll has now reached 363 but is expected to rise.
The death toll in the building collapse has now reached 363 but it is expected to increase.
As former US vice-president Al Gore arrives in Dublin today to speak about climate change, global hunger and poverty, Dom Hunt explains why climate change needs to be recognised as a global issue.
126 people died, and 40 riverside homes were ruined, when a consignment of gunpowder exploded at the quays.
Officials have promised that the ship, which is twice the size of the Titanic, will be removed by September.
The Liverpool midfielder would be best advised to stay away from the site over the next few hours.
The United States is facing a bill of tens of billions of dollars in the wake of ‘Superstorm’ Sandy.
At least eight killed and tens of thousands displaced by Pacific storm.
However, no trial is expected until the beginning of next year at the earliest.
The Fukushima accident was a man-made disaster caused by a culture of “reflexive obedience”, a new report says.
Fire on Colorado grew to more than 80 sq km in one day.
Centralia in Pennsylvania was once a bustling mining town but a fire which spread through its coal mines is still raging half a century on…
At least 16 people were killed in the quake early yesterday morning.
People lay flowers and lit candles to mark the occasion. Ukraine’s president vowed today that his country is committed to building a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor.
Incredible images of the “ground zero” of the 1986 accident.
Shivering survivors, grief-stricken relatives waiting on the docks and shock in the White Star Line offices: a pictorial record of the world receiving news that the ‘unsinkable’ ship had done the unthinkable.
The significance of this picture was only discovered long after it was taken by a seaman on another liner cruising off Newfoundland at the time Titanic sank.
From shower curtains to inflatable slides, here are some of the items you may not want to mark the disaster’s 100th anniversary with…
New images show how the exact break-up of the Titanic might now be understood – and whether the ship had a fatal design flaw.
The former Prime Minister acknowledged there were flaws in how authorities handled the Fukushima crisis last year.
Survivors have described the scenes inside the packed cells as the blaze tore through the jail.
Plan Ireland’s report on Haiti two years after earthquake reveals major challenges as other NGOs also note scale of work required for country to recover will need international investment.
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