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Disaster

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Disaster

description: An event, either natural or man-made, that causes great distress or destruction on a community or area.

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 Documents

Bourke, Walgett declared flood disasters (AAP)

British Airways staff on strike after talks collapse March 20, 2010, 1:41 pmBoat intercepted near Christmas Island March 20, 2010, 12:04 pmChristmas Island facility 'almost full' March 20, 2010, 5:23 pmBA flights cancelled as crew strike March 20, 2010, ... [Published 1 hour ago by Yahoo! News Australia]

Entities: Steve Whan, Flooding, Disaster

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 Documents

Liu Chao-Shiuan

Disaster response drills to focus on evacuation: minister

2:29 pm TWN, By Chou Yung-chieh and Sofia Wu, CNA TAIPEI, Taiwan -- An upcoming series of disaster response drills will prioritize emergency evacuation and delivery of relief supplies, Minister of the Interior Jiang Yi-hua said Monday. 'The nationwide ... [Published 3 hours ago by China Post]

Entities: Disaster, Liu Chao-Shiuan, Taiwan, Legislative Yuan

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 44 mins ago - 3 Documents

Bill Clinton

Odd couple Clinton, Bush join forces on Haiti trip (AFP)

AFP/File – Former US Presidents Bill Clinton (R) and George W. Bush listen as US President Barack Obama speaks about …PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Former US presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will seek to reassure Haitians with a visit Monday that the ... [Published 6 hours ago by Yahoo! News]

Entities: Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Haiti, Earthquake

First Reported Mar 21 2010 - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 Documents

Tom Price

I Do Think -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Rep. Tom Price (MD) has this late-night statement right:It’s clear the thousands of Americans who descended upon the Capitol yesterday to protest this bill were completely ignored by Speaker Pelosi and her allies,” said Chairman Price. “Democrats will ... [Published 18 hours ago by National Review]

Entities: Tom Price, Health Care Reform, Disaster

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 Documents

eHDF, Double-Take come together to offer DR solution

(Computer News Middle East Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) eHosting DataFort (eHDF), announced on Sunday a partnership with Double-Take Software to offer a comprehensive packaged solution for data and server protection in a hosted data centre across the GCC ... [Published 20 hours ago by TMC Net]

Entities: Disaster, Replication, Double-Take Software Inc, Recovery Site

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 3 Documents

Festival to raise funds for Chile quake victims

Sydney's Chilean community is putting on a festival to raise as much money as possible to help victims of last month's earthquake and tsunami.The community is putting on a cultural festival in the city's west, with the proceeds to go to disaster relief ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by ABC Online]

Entities: Earthquake, Chile, Sydney (Australia), Disaster, Talcahuano (Chile)

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 21 2010 - 3 Documents

Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)

Cyclone bears down on Australia

This forecast track map was issued Saturday afternoon of Tropical Storm Ului, showing very destructive winds.STORY HIGHLIGHTSEight areas along Australia's eastern coast are under disaster declarationThey are in the predicted path of the stormDeclaration ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by CNN]

Entities: Australia, Tropical Cyclone, Disaster, Charters Towers (Australia), Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 2 Documents

Queensland a 'disaster zone'

AIRLIE BEACH (Australia) - THE premier of Australia's Queensland state has declared parts of its coast a disaster zone as a tropical cyclone approaches.Premier Anna Bligh said on Saturday that the declaration gives the state the power to order mandatory ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Straits Times]

Entities: Disaster, Tropical Cyclone, Cyclone Ului, Great Barrier Reef, Anna Bligh

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 2 Documents

Protest rally planned to take place in Tskinvali

The members of the youth movement of the ruling party National Movement went to the offices of the two opposition parties, Democratic Movemeny-United Georgia and the Movement for Fair Georgia, where they left the tickets to Georgia vs. Russia rugby match. ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Rustavi2]

Entities: Turkey, Georgia, Georgian Labour Party (GE), Disaster, Labour Party (TR)

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 2 Documents

Krugman's 'getting tough on China' policy spells disaster

CHICAGO: The assumption of The New York Times' Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman that the United States benefits China more than vice versa would bring catastrophe on an unimaginable scale, a well-known US economist told Xinhua recently.Peter Schiff, ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by CHINAdaily]

Entities: Peter Schiff, Paul Krugman, China

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 2 Documents

(P & I) Safer homes, stronger communities: a handbook for reconstructing after natural disasters

Source: The World Bank GroupThis handbook was developed to assist policy makers and project managers engaged principally in large-scale post-disaster reconstruction programs make decisions about how to reconstruct housing and communities, a complex series ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by ReliefWeb]

Entities: Disaster, World Bank Group

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 3 Documents

Disaster declared in Queensland ahead of Ului

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has declared a disaster zone across the state's central and northern coast ahead of the anticipated arrival of tropical cyclone Ului.The cyclone is predicted to cross the coast between Ayr and Mackay as a category two or ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by ONE News]

Entities: Disaster, Anna Bligh, Tropical Cyclone

Quotes

...Bhaskar, the former director of the InstituteInstitute of Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi and now with the National Maritime Foundation. "Besides, Haitians are present in large numbers in North America, and that's reason enough to get involved."

It's our turn to help in Haiti [rediff.com - 9 mins ago]

The chief in one village is philosophical about the situation: "Together we can develop our community. You have to keep tradition, with one hand you must reach into the future, with the other you must keep it in the past."

Taking action for World Water Day | Barbara Frost [Guardian.co.uk - 22 mins ago]

"While these countries produce the least amount of carbon dioxide, they have to bear the brunt of the adverse impact of global warming" Benjamin T H Ho, ambassador of the Republic of China on Taiwan to Kiribati, said in a recent interview

Global warming threatens survival of ROC's Pacific allies: envoys [MyEGov Taiwan - 39 mins ago]

More Content

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Afghans unite for peace [iafrica.com - 1 hour ago]
A garland of religious songs [Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - 1 hour ago]
Volcano fears subside over Icelandic eruptions [EuroNews - 1 hour ago]
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Despite devastation, pastor and church put Chri... [Mission Network News - 1 hour ago]
Nestle’s Facebook FAIL [Crikey Media - 1 hour ago]
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BA pilot who saved 152 passengers claims he was... [Telegraph - 2 hours ago]
Superman landlord plunges 200ft for disaster ch... [Eat Out Magazine.co.uk - 2 hours ago]
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Captain feared drowned, three crew seeking assi... [Guyana Chronicle Online - 2 hours ago]
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Prolonged drought drives up flower prices in SW... [RBC Dain Rauscher - 2 hours ago]

Blogs

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Taking action for World Water Day \| Barbara Frost [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 40 mins ago] There are still 900 million people who don't have a safe water supply – and not always in the places you expectThis is a tale of two countries – one landlocked, ...
The Beginning of the End of the Eurozone As We ... [naked capitalism - 1 hour ago] The widely-extolled idea, that the EU would find a way to muddle through the Greece crisis, looks very much in doubt. The pressure has not simply put the rescue ...
Tamino, 5 sigma, and frame-dragging [The Reference Frame - 3 hours ago] Tamino and other AGW fundamentalists can't swallow a bitter pill - that hard sciences still exist. He said that it was "ludicrous" to require 5 sigma confidence ...
Bless The Obama USA (Eugene Forsey Liberal) [Progressive Bloggers - 4 hours ago] Listening to Springsteen in celebration. There are still a lot of problems, but tonight was a good night for USA, a long-term realignment of their politics, and ...
Jim Luce: Connecting Disaster Relief Through Te... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 5 hours ago] It cannot be overstated how hard the Haitian people -- and their infrastructure -- have been hit by the recent earthquake. After suffering cumulative ...

Audio/Video

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Rising sea threatens Nile delta [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 16 hours ago]
Egypt's Nile Delta is under rising threats [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 18 hours ago]
Drought plagues southwest China [Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 21 2010]
Wilkerson: We can bomb Iran for 70 days around ... [Russia Today - YouTube - Mar 18 2010]
Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest [TED Talks - YouTube - Mar 18 2010]