With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise, international disaster risk reduction efforts are woefully underfunded. Global development is supported by. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. @swajones ...Last year, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and landslides left (pdf). Yet the international community spends less than half of one per cent of the global aid budget on mitigating the risks posed by such hazards ... ....
Kim Kardashian attended a friend’s wedding this past weekend and she captured the night’s events with some racy images that are definitely NSFW... 001. A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Apr 23, 2016 at 6.05pm PDT. 014 ... 006 ... He married model IsabelaRangel ... ....
Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba, has died following a collapse on stage during a concert, officials said. He was 66. Culture MinisterBaudouin Banza Mukalay confirmed the musician’s death on Sunday, calling it a “great loss for the country and all of Africa.” ... He was taken to a nearby clinic, but couldn’t be resuscitated ... Keywords....
The country's opposition leaders and international civil society groups have already dismissed Sunday's vote as "not credible". PresidentTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo faces six mostly unknown opponents, with most of the opposition boycotting the poll ... Critics accuse the 73-year-old of failing to distribute the country's oil wealth to the population of about 700,000 ... In the last election in 2009, Obiang won 97 percent of the vote....
(AP) — The Latest on a solar plane that landed in California after crossing the Pacific (all times local). ... PilotBertrand Piccard completed a risky, three-day flight across a great expanse of the PacificOcean while sleeping only 20 minutes at a time inside the plane's tiny cockpit with no heat or air conditioning ... the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii....
ESCAP - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific). The Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports developed under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) entered into force 23 April, after eight of the 17 signatory countries became a Party to it ... inclusive Asia-Pacific region....
PilotBertrand Piccard completed a risky, three-day flight across a great expanse of the PacificOcean while sleeping only 20 minutes at a time inside the plane's tiny cockpit with no heat or air conditioning. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 in Mountain View, south of San Francisco, at 11.45 p.m ... The trans-Pacific leg is the riskiest part of the plane's global travels because of the lack of emergency landing sites ......
The front that affected the country over the weekend has now moved north, leaving behind it a cool southwesterly flow. Coastal areas in the far south saw severe gales with gusts of 120 km/h yesterday ... ....
At a press conference, a trade show and a private dinner with chief executives, Obama tried to counter public skepticism about the unfinished deal with Europe, while also brushing off opposition from the 2016 presidential candidates to a pending Asia-Pacific trade pact ... presidential primary season is over and politics settle down, the trans-Pacific pact, awaiting ratification, can “start moving forward” in Congress....