Tag: the-biggest
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Lack of funds threatens malaria progress: WHO
For example, 43 percent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa was not protected by treated nets or indoor spraying. “The unprecedented progress in malaria is one of the biggest successes in healthcare history,” Pedro Alonso, director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme, told reporters in London. The report said that “sustained and sufficient funding for…
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Timeline: Major earthquakes in Italy in past century
Italy was hit by its strongest earthquake in decades on Sunday, when a 6.6 magnitude tremor brought down buildings in several towns in the central Apennines. Sunday’s quake was the biggest since one measuring 6.9 in 1980, which killed an estimated 2,735 people in the southern region of Campania. Below is a list of major…
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Timeline: Major earthquakes in Italy in past century
Italy was hit by its strongest earthquake in decades on Sunday, when a 6.6 magnitude tremor brought down buildings in several towns in the central Apennines. Sunday’s quake was the biggest since one measuring 6.9 in 1980, which killed an estimated 2,735 people in the southern region of Campania. Below is a list of major…
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U.S. watchdog highlights dire state of Afghan road system
Billions of dollars spent building up Afghanistan’s road infrastructure over more than a decade risk going to waste because of poor maintenance, a U.S. Congressional oversight body said on Saturday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said U.S. agencies had spent $2.8 billion since 2002 building roads in Afghanistan but wear and tear as…
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Burkina Faso bans big buttocks beauty contest
The government of Burkina Faso has banned an annual beauty contest for women with the biggest buttocks, saying such events are sexist. Adverts for this weekend’s third edition of ‘Miss Bim-Bim’, carrying an image of two fully clothed women with exaggeratedly large behinds, provoked an outcry on social media. “Our role is to do everything…
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Italy grieves as state funeral held for victims of powerful quake
Amongst the 35 coffins laid out in a sports hall were small caskets holding the bodies of an 18-month-old baby and a nine-year-old girl, two of the 21 children who are known to have died when the quake hit central Italy early on Wednesday. “What we need is a reconstruction in record time.
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Italy grieves as state funeral held for victims of powerful quake
Amongst the 35 coffins laid out in a sports hall were small caskets holding the bodies of an 18-month-old baby and a nine-year-old girl, two of the 21 children who are known to have died when the quake hit central Italy early on Wednesday. “What we need is a reconstruction in record time.
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Japan’s Abe pledges $30 billion for Africa over next three years
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) – Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told African leaders on Saturday that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private support for infrastructure development on the continent. Resource-poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural…