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  • Pakistanis hunt militants behind blast that killed at least 70

    PAKISTAN, 2016/04/04

  • Nepal quake-reconstruction body finally cleared to start working

    NEPAL, 2015/12/26 Eight months next a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, its government has finally opened the way for a reconstruction agency to spend $4.1 billion pledged by foreign donors to help the massive number of people rendered homeless. Two separate earthquakes in April and May killed 9,000 people, injured additional than 22,000 and damaged or destroyed nearly 900,000 houses, forcing a lot of to live in shelters built with tarps and iron sheets, even in freezing temperatures. It took until September for Nepal to create the National Reconstruction Agency (NRA).

  • Nepal quake-reconstruction body finally cleared to start working

    NEPAL, 2015/12/26 Eight months next a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, its government has finally opened the way for a reconstruction agency to spend $4.1 billion pledged by foreign donors to help the massive number of people rendered homeless. Two separate earthquakes in April and May killed 9,000 people, injured additional than 22,000 and damaged or destroyed nearly 900,000 houses, forcing a lot of to live in shelters built with tarps and iron sheets, even in freezing temperatures. It took until September for Nepal to create the National Reconstruction Agency (NRA).

  • Jihadism In Maldives: Impact On Vital Tourism Industry

    MALDIVES, 2015/08/30 There has been in recent years a disproportionate number of Maldivian fighters in Syria amid increased grassroots radicalisation in the Maldives, traditionally a religiously-relaxed Muslim country. Effective domestic and regional counter-extremism measures can reverse these trends. Jihadist activity and a radicalised community have been visibly growing in the completed decade in the Maldives, traditionally a religiously-relaxed Muslim country. Maldives experienced a terrorist attack in 2007 wounding 12 foreigners towards the end of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s 30-year government. Mohamed Nasheed’s government (2008 – 2012) saw a huge increase in violent extremism and the spread of radical ideology part the people. The present government of Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is contending with an increasing number of Maldivians participating in transnational terrorist activity and an actively radicalised community.

  • Bangladeshi activists campaigning for capital punishment, Dhaka, Bangladesh,

    BANGLADESH, 2015/08/09

  • Kalam, a bachelor, stood out as the perfect example of the initial citizen of the country.

    INDIA, 2015/07/28 India's former president and top scientist A P J Abdul Kalam, called as the country's "missile man" passed away on Monday (27 July) at 6.30 pm local time, doing what he liked best -- talking to students. He was 83. Kalam collapsed two minutes into a lecture at a management institute in the north-eastern Indian city of Shillong and was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.

  • Emergency preparedness pays off as Kathmandu hospitals respond to earthquakes: WHO

    NEPAL, 2015/05/14 The WHO says the earthquakes and continuing aftershocks in Nepal have highlighted the importance of efforts the UN body and the Nepalese Health and People Ministry have had in place for additional than a decade to ensure key hospitals, health facilities and health workers would be ready and able to function well in an emergency or natural disaster. WHO says the initial earthquake on April 25 measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale and the second quake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale on Tuesday failed to disrupt services at Kathmandu’s major public hospitals, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Patan Hospital, Civil Service Hospital, Birendra Army Hospital and the trauma center at Bir Hospital. As of today, additional than 8,200 people are reported to have been killed in the earthquakes and over 19,000 injured.

  • How Israeli Life-Saving Tech Is Leading Rescue Efforts In Nepal

    ISRAEL, 2015/05/03 Five days next one of history’s most devastating earthquakes hit Nepal, nations near and far are pouring in funds and personnel to address the national of emergency. Leading the pack in terms of medical and rescue personnel on the ground is Israel, with an aid convoy of 260 personnel, inclunding about forty doctors. While this isn’t the initial time that Israel has stepped in to following a major international weather event, the Israeli team is using innovative and ingenious technology to rescue additional people from the areas of destruction and to provide initial-class medical care to those who need it most.

  • Nearly a week after quake, Nepal still needs tents, food

    NEPAL, 2015/05/02 Nearly a week next a massive earthquake killed additional than 6,200 people and collapsed buildings, temples and homes, Nepal still urgently needs basic aid like shelter and food, while remote villages remain cut off from help. Aid workers still face “immense logistical challenges,” U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Friday, noting that the scale of the devastation in Nepal would be an obstacle for any government. The U.N. has estimated the magnitude-7.8 quake that struck April 25 affected 8.1 million people — additional than a fourth of Nepal’s people of 27.8 million.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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