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The weirdness of warming
New York City just had its hottest June-to-August stretch on record. Moscow, suffering from a once-in-a-millennium heat wave, tallied thousands of deaths, a toll that included hundreds of inebriated, overheated citizens who stumbled into rivers and lakes and didn’t come out.
10/09/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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The human face of Pakistan's deadly flood
Rania Abouzeid
It was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistan floods — and the failure to deliver aid to those affected — more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a filthy patchwork quilt, one of them sucking on an empty yellow bottle, all of them covered by flies.
The photograph by Associated Press's Mohammad Sajjad went around the world and featured in
07/09/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Securing lifelines during a disaster
Vinod Thomas and Ronald S. Parker
CATASTROPHE: The floods in Pakistan are estimated to have been worse than the scale of the devastating 2004 tsunami.
The frequency and intensity of natural disasters have been on the rise in recent decades.
02/09/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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India hikes Pak flood relief to $25 m
After deciding to route assistance to flood devastated Pakistan through the United Nations, India has increased its contribution to $ 25 million from the initial pledge of $ 5 million that was offered earlier this month.
01/09/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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No respite in Pak as floods ravage another town
Karachi: Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday as authorities struggled to build new levees with clay and stone to prevent one of the area’s biggest cities from suffering the same fate.
Almost all of Sujawal’s 250,000 residents fled the town before the water rushed in, but the damage to homes, clinics and schools added to the widespread devastation the floods have
30/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Pakistan orders 600,000 to flee as floods surge south
Pakistan ordered the immediate evacuation of up to 600,000 people from towns and villages along southern reaches of the Indus River as unprecedented monthlong floods swept toward the sea.
“We are sitting on the roof of our office now, waiting for vehicles to help evacuate us,” Sajad Ali Shah, a local government official, said by telephone from Shahdadkot, a city of 400,000 people in northern Si
27/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Bangladesh among 100 best countries
Bangladesh has been ranked 88th among the 100 countries in the first-ever list of the world's best countries prepared by international newsmagazine, Newsweek in its latest issue.
For this special survey, published in its August 23 & 30 issue, Newsweek chose five categories of national well-being such as educati
25/08/2010
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
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UK flood aid to Pak is double
Aug. 20: British development secretary Andrew Mitchell has announced that the UK intends to double its aid contribution for the floods in Pakistan to £64 million (more than Rs 8.5 billion).
The UK will make available an additional aid of about Rs 4.5 billion.
21/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Pak relents, accepts India's $5m flood aid
After initial hesitation, Pakistan finally decided to accept India’s $5 million aid for flood victims, and officials said Friday India’s offer “was a positive gesture, and good for relations (between) the two countries”.
Foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said just a day earlier that Pakistan had declined the aid though “we appreciate India’s gesture”.
Pakistan’s turnaround came after the
21/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Setting up water treatment units: US extends additional $1.5 million aid to WHO
United States has provided $1.5 million of funding to UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) agency to help it establish an additional 40 treatment centres to fight water-borne diseases in the 'high risk' flood-affected areas of Pakistan.
The grant brings to 55 the number of US-funded treatment centres in the hardest flood-hit districts.
21/08/2010
Business Recorder (Pakistan)
