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Nearly 80 million could slide into poverty: World BankNatural disasters and climate change have devastating effects on cities and the four billion people who live in them today, according to a new report by the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). More… |
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Bahrain plans floating power bargesBahrain will soon have floating 'power barges' to provide electricity in cases of natural disasters or shortages, which will be manufactured as a joint venture between Asry and British company Centrax. HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad A More… |
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China downpours unleash floods, killing over 100Torrential rains battering central and southern China unleashed floods and landslides that killed more than 100 people, turning areas enduring drought just over a week ago into scenes of muddy destruction, local news reports said on Sunday. More… |
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Big Haiti quake topples buildings, many casualtiesA major earthquake struck the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, toppling many buildings and burying hundreds, possibly thousands, of people under the rubble, witnesses said. The magnitude 7.0 quake, whose epicentre was inland and o More… |
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Bahrain mulls natural disaster rescue planA mass evacuation plan for Bahrain's population in the event of a nuclear disaster could soon be drawn up, it has emerged. It is not on the list of five priorities for the national disaster plan currently being put together, but will be ne More… |
