Jo'burg's emergency services disrupted for strike

Members of the Johannesburg Emergency Management Services will go on strike, the city has announced.

Paramedics keep out of Durban Deep after attack

Roodepoort paramedics are refusing to service Durban Deep in Johannesburg after two female paramedics were attacked at the weekend.

Aid pledges poured into Chile on Monday after the government made its first requests for help as the death toll from the earthquake reached 723.

A desperate German woman called the police to rescue her after a friend visiting her talked for 30 hours straight, authorities said Tuesday.

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High tide
A woman, carrying a baby, wades through the water in the outskirts of Chokwe near the Limpopo river. Mozambican emergenc...

Grim search
A member of an emergency services team douses his face with water as a search for bodies continues after a landslide in ...

Treading water
An emergency services worker measures floodwaters 6km south of Rockhampton, Australia, on Monday. (Daniel Munoz, Reuters...

Aftermath
A frame grab shows emergency services personnel reaching for a young victim in Sichuan Province of the massive earthquak...

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