The world’s failure to prepare for natural disasters will have “inconceivably bad” consequences as climate change fuels a huge increase in catastrophic droughts and floods and the humanitarian crises that follow, the UN’s head of disaster planning has warned ... 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 ... The real question in my mind is....
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 ...Culture MinisterBaudouin Banza Mukalay confirmed the musician’s death on Sunday, calling it a “great loss for the country and all of Africa.” ... The cause of death wasn’t immediately known....
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....
On the streets, there are rumours. At shops, people murmur to each other that there is a plague of earthquakes going around the world. Some are convinced that the quake is coming back to Nepal. "None of the tailors are back," says the local seamstress, explaining that her staff have left the city. "They're waiting for Baishakh 12," theNepali date when the devastating quake shook Nepal last year ...The story I wish I never had to tell....
“Left 4 Dead 2” was released way back in 2009 so the high expectation and anticipation of gamers for “Left 4 Dead 3” this year is quite understandable and certainly has a good leg to stand on ... In addition, there will also be six different campaigns in the game including No Mercy, EarlyDestination, Impasse, Cliff-Hanger, Crashland, and InquisitorLand....
Records show that theInquisitors who interrogated Joan were as much concerned with her transvestitism as with her claims to hear angelic voices and devoted a great deal of effort into convincing Joan to give up her masculine attire, a step with which she never complied. Yet Game of Thrones never even approaches the slippery and surprising world of gender manipulation and redefinition that are a feature of medieval spirituality....
Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.” ... Hillary Clinton’s approach to the subject of political corruption which she has demonstrated in her campaign for the presidency was previously demonstrated during her term as Secretary of State... In their Brooklyn , recycling the sandbagging April fools “” of Bernie Sanders by theN.Y ... Sanders had said nothing to theDaily News about Afghanistan ... How theU.S ... For theU.S....
Set in England during theVictorian Age, ClockworkPrince by Cassandra Clare is the second book of theInfernal Devices series, a paranormal chain that combines the realms of mysticism and the supernatural ...The Shadowhunters are held accountable by a checks and balances system which includes Downworlders and Inquisitors ... The Downworlders are reflective of civil liberty unions, and theInquisitors are liken to prosecuting attorneys....
Donald Trump is unusually attached to the language of state violence. He rages about punching people in the face and beating up protesters. He talks about summary executions and the collective punishment of terrorists’ families ... You can hear in his voice, which deepens strategically as he bellows for violence, the frisson of the forbidden ... It was the weapon of choice for Spanishinquisitors seeking to break heretics....
Using the powerful arm of the government, the grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, and his henchmen sought out all those who held religious, scientific or moral views that conflicted with the monarch’s, punishing the “heretics” with jail sentences; property confiscation; fines; and in severe cases, torture and execution....
The voluminous, harassing 14-page subpoena says InquisitorWalker is investigating ExxonMobil for “misrepresenting its knowledge of the likelihood that its products and activities have contributed to and are continuing to contribute to climate change in order to defraud ......
At approximately 3.58 pm on Sunday, there was an earthquake at the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border and its tremors in Delhi saw intrepid reporters abandon their office premises with alacrity ...CNN-IBN and India Today took one look at the swaying ceiling fans inside and rushed out — to speak to passers-by; Times Now took to the streets of Srinagar, looking for cracks (in the relationship between thePDP and BJP?)....
Some of the greatest atrocities have been perpetrated in the name of the good. Certainly theInquisition was one of these. In TheGrandInquisitor section of TheBrothers KaramazovDostoevsky describes the condition of Christ being brought before the Grand Inquisitor for sacrilege though it was Christianity that the Inquisition was supposed to be protecting....
This group’s current phantasm is that the sex one is born into — they prefer the more loosey-goosey term gender — is of no consequence, and one can change genders (sexes) with less fuss than that required to change one’s cable provider ... He was of course called a lot of things by theinquisitors in the Twitosphere, none of them as polite as old-fashioned ... Different in ways that have nothing to do with the way people are socialized....
Ska Studios' predominantly hand drawn art in Salt and Sanctuary is deliberately rough around the edges, a stylistic carryover from its Dishwasher series. It leans on the darkest of earth tones, which is fitting for a game this gloomy and unwelcoming ... It culminates when you reach the first boss, The Sodden Knight ... There’s mystique to the names of the bosses like theUntouchedInquisitor and TheThirdLamb....