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....
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 ... ....
Barack Obama has described Prince George as "adorable" after the 2-year-old son of Prince William and Kate Middleton was allowed to stay up past his bed-time to meet the US President... "I guess you all know why I came this week. It's no secret. Nothing was going to stop me from wishing happy birthday to her majesty, or meeting George, who was adorable," he told audience gathered for a town-hall style event in central London today ... ....
At the end of this episode, I realized what bothers me about The Girlfriend Experience. It isn't so much disinterested in emotional connection and honesty between people, but actively repulsed by it. It doesn't just present Christine's selfish, emotionally shuttered worldview; it agrees with her.Every character who shows a streak ...More » ... ....
If you're an ardent fan and yet to watch it you probably want to stop reading now, but, if you're not bothered my **spoilers**, here's a quick rundown. Jon Snow status ... ....
. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M)] has demanded immediate disbursal of financial assistance to the next of kin of the victims of the Puttingal firecrackers accident ... The CPI (M) leaders said none of the State Ministers or senior officials had bothered to visit the patients or their bystanders to know their hardships ... Lack of coordination ... ....
Vadodara. Citizens pay Rs45 lakhs in penalty every year for talking on phone while driving in the city. The casual attitude is not only costing money, but is life threatening. Traffic department sources informed that 38,523 citizens were penalized in 2014, while last year the number of offenders rose to 56,081 ... "Interestingly, the woman did not bother about her scooter ... "Phone calls trigger various kinds of emotions ... ....
why could Bertie not be left alone to grow up in the way that suited him? He was, after all, a particularly appealing little boy, free from any discernible character defects, obliging, gentle, and, most remarkably of all, utterly without guile ...Why, wondered Stuart, should such a self-evidently ... This would have bothered some mothers, but not her....
"When his name, image and reputation was at stake and he was accused of hacking my clients emails and also of being in a relationship with my client, besides there being a charge on him that he has also sent a lot of stuff in the last 6 months to my client and that therefore there cannot be any imposter," Siddiqui claimed, adding why did not the actor bother to clear his name immediately ... ....
Wardha. At a time when entire state is grappling with acute water scarcity, Salai (Kala) village is not much bothered about the problem. The reason. The students here have set an example in handling not just the present situation but also preventing recurrence of such a crisis. The village was suffering from water scarcity for last many years. Even wells and borewells used to go dry soon after the monsoon making life miserable for all....
Some clubs don’t seem to have come to terms with discrimination law, writes Amanda Jones. It is not often that my two main interests in life collide. Now they have, but for all the wrong reasons ... It is not often that the main witness against whom allegations of discriminatory comments are made, doesn't even bother to turn up to give evidence at a hearing, and yet that appears to have been the case with the owner of Leeds United ... ....
CINCINNATI – Maybe it’s the room service. Maybe it’s the rich, Corinthian leather seats on the charter flights. Maybe it’s the Reds... “I don’t think we’re intimidated by going into loud places ... Relatively quiet places don’t seem to bother them either – with Jake Arrieta throwing his no-hitter in a 16-0 victory Thursday with official attendance at Great American Ball Park barely 16,000 ... It just speaks to the [closeness] of our team.” ... ....
BENGALURU ... "We were late to this game (of outsourcing) — even at the beginning, we clearly said that we should not bother do this for arbitrage. If we're doing it for salary arbitrage, we're already too late in that door, that opportunity is diminishing. So it's about completely modernising our world. If for some reason we were doing it for salary arbitrage, I would encourage us to not even start ... We're seeing it across mature GICs....
ATTAWAPISKAT, Ont ... Among them is the big sister Sheridan left behind ... Her father disappeared from her life, leaving a void, although she vacillates between whether or not it still bothers her. Her background has also helped her understand why her peers -- most from damaged families living in over-crowded, frequently substandard houses in which drug and alcohol addictions wreak havoc -- might want to kill themselves ... Bennett has gone....
Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin was originally scheduled to catch Drew Hutchison on Sunday afternoon at the Rogers Centre against the Oakland A’s, but was pulled a couple of hours before the game and replaced by Josh Thole... Manager John Gibbons said Martin is day-to-day. “You know when your neck bothers you it affects everything in this game, your throwing, your hitting, all that stuff,” said the manager ... ....
Amit Mitra campaigns at Khardaha. Express photo. It’ll be a battle of finance ministers in Khardah, with Trinamool incumbent Dr Amit Mitra taking on Dr Asim Dagupta, his predecessor in the Left Front government. In starched white dhoti-kurta and an equally white floppy hat, Dr Mitra braved an angry sun at the head of Trinamool supporters through the small town of Kharada ...RelatedArticle ... Poor people are not bothered about Narada.”....