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 ...Damage caused by disasters in 2015 ... He said ... Glasser pointed to Syria, where years of protracted drought led to a massive migration of people from rural areas to cities in the run-up to the country’s civil war ... ....
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....
Gears of War 4, the 4th main installment in the Gears of War franchise(not including Judgement) is arriving exclusively to the Xbox One on October 11 of 2016 and is expected to be this year’s best selling Xbox One game. The Gears of War series has always been a staple in the Xbox lineup, selling lots of copies across the entire franchise ... However, Gears of War 4 could be the big push that Microsoft needs to catch up to Sony....
It seems some information regarding the upcoming Gears of War 4 Season Pass and Ultimate Edition for the game have leaked early ... In addition, the details regarding the Gears of War 4 Season Pass have leaked as well ... TopicsGears of War 4 Season PassGears of War ......
More than 10,000 huddled together on a brisk Dunedin morning at Queens Gardens to honour the many thousands of Kiwis who fought and died in the GreatWar - WorldWar 1 - and subsequent wars. In pictures. Anzac Day in Dunedin Kiwis united in 'tragic legacy of war' Crowds turn out around region The fog of war... ''The horror of war impacts everybody and no-one hates war more than those that have served,'' he said....
AustralianWarMemorial) ... Dr Brendan Nelson, Director of the Australian War Memorial, says he was delighted to see large crowds in attendance at today's Anzac Day NationalCeremony at the Australian War Memorial ... 'Anzac Day is a time for all Australians to come together to commemorate the sacrifices made by Australian servicemen and servicewomen in every theatre of war and operational service....
The true legacy of the Anzacs is love and mateship, the head of Australia'sWarMemorial says. . More than 55,000 people stood in silence at the AustralianWar Memorial in Canberra as the LastPost and the warble of the bush pierced the morning. ... Australian War ... The Anzac Day DawnService at the Australian War Memorial Photo....
War... But there have been a few songs - and what's more a few Australian songs - that have taken the experience of war and made great and sometimes moving music from them. . To mark Anzac Day we've marshalled 10 of the best local recordings inspired by or about Australia'swars ... There were mass protests on the streets at the time but country music star Reg was firmly on the pro-war side....
planes dropped about 60 million leaflets on Japanese cities, telling citizens to evacuate and to call upon their leaders to cease the war... There were also some 2 million Japanese soldiers fighting throughout the Pacific, China and Burma — and hundreds of thousands of Allied prisoners and Asian civilians being held in Japanese prisoner of war and slave labor camps ... WorldWar II was the most deadly event in human history....
War... But there have been a few songs - and what's more a few Australian songs - that have taken the experience of war and made great and sometimes moving music from them. . To mark Anzac Day we've marshalled 10 of the best local recordings inspired by or about Australia'swars ... There were mass protests on the streets at the time but country music star Reg was firmly on the pro-war side....
Last week, at the biggest UN drug policy summit for a generation, a mother who lost her child to drugs and is now campaigning to end the global drug war, inspired the CanadianHealth Minister to call for a humane drug policies that better protect citizens ...Families for Safer Drug Control and the US-based MomsUnited to End the War on Drugs ... The old drug-war consensus has gone....
The brigade is the armored fist of the Army's "global response force" - troops and equipment who will be first to fight the next war...Troops prepared for war, deployed and came home for months of relaxation before they would train again. Post-war strategy propelled by rising Russian threats has changed that ... At the height of the ColdWar, the Army had 280,000 combat troops in Europe ... needs troops who can get to war in a hurry....
Civil War" most likely dominates box offices across the country. ...Winter's War," bringing in an estimated $20 million. Now, with a $115 million budget, a $20 million domestic debut is pretty lousy. ... Fortunately foreign moviegoers, as they often do, are playing hero for "The Huntsman." "Winter's War" boasts $80 million in foreign ticket sales....