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 ... ....
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....
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," the Nepali date when the devastating quake shook Nepal last year ... READ MORE ... Lost and heartbroken ... READ MORE ... ....
Georgia plans to carry out its fifth execution of the year on Wednesday when a man convicted in the 1998 killings of a trucking company owner and his two children is set to die. Daniel AnthonyLucas is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson... ___ ... The only other time the state executed that many people in a 12-month period was when seven inmates were put to death between October 2001 and August2002 ... ....
Oh, Whacking Day, Oh, Whacking Day;. Our hallowed Eel skull cracking-Day;. We'll break their backs; Advertisement. Gouge out their eyes;. Their evil hearts;. We'll pulverise;. Oh, Whacking Day, Oh, Whacking Day; ... That might well be what happened in 2002, when the Bulldogs were stripped of 37 competition points and fined half a million bucks ... By the time the penalties were announced in August2002, Canterbury had won 17 consecutive matches ... ....
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RAMPUR ...Muhammad Javed, now 33, first met Mobina when he travelled to Karachi in 1999 with his mother for a family wedding. He and his cousin fell in love with each other during his three and a half months in the city ... In August2002, Javed and three friends were abducted and tortured for three days before being produced in court, and were accused of passing state secrets to Pakistani intelligence officials ... ....
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“Like Muslims go to Mecca and Christians go to the Vatican, sculptors must come to Carrara,” art curator Giuliano Gori told the New York Times in an August2002 article ... father in 1931 (Osama was disowned by his family in 1994 and expelled from all company proceedings), purchased a company that owned a third of the Carrara quarries in August 2014....
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