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Disasters - SERIES 55 {17 articles}

'Where it was – but not how it was': how the Sicilian earthquake divided a town


8/30/2018, 7:02:34 AM
The 1968 disaster left at least 231 people dead and 100,000 homeless, but it was rebuilding Salemi that split the local community ✔ A multitude of small details disappear into the design as a whole, wrote the influential architecture critic François Burkhardt in praise of the project ✔ Follow Guardian Cities on Twitter , Facebook and Instagram to join the discussion, and explore our archive here


Australia's east coast drought to intensify as dry weather to...


8/30/2018, 6:17:13 AM
Australia's east coast will experience dry weather for at least the next three months, the country's meteorological bureau said on Thursday, intensifying a drought that has wilted crops and left farmers struggling to stay in business. ✔ But the bureau said the west coast - the country’s largest agricultural producing region - will also experience drier than average weather over the next three months, tightening national supply yet further ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


As drought grips Australia's east, giant grains trains roll to the...


8/30/2018, 12:32:09 AM
Until a few months ago, train driver Gavin Slater had never seen anything like it. Five locomotives, with a combined 15,000 horsepower, ready to pull 101 wagons brimful of grain. ✔ EXPORTS DIVERTED One saving grace is an anticipated bumper wheat crop in Western Australia, which is expected to enjoy a harvest in excess of 10 million tonnes this season, about 2 million tonnes above its 10-year average ✔ ($1 = 1.3669 Australian dollars) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Downpour kills 2, leaves hundreds homeless


8/30/2018, 6:32:48 AM
undefined ✔ Over 700 cases of flooding were reported in the capital, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government _ 680 in basements of residential homes, 18 in stores and four where flood barriers collapsed ✔ Light rain is expected to continue in the southern regions including the Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces with around 50 mm to 100 mm of rain, Friday


Melbourne, get set for a warm spring and early summer


8/30/2018, 6:09:12 AM
We’re heading for a warm and sunny spring, with summer set to arrive early this year. ✔ National Victoria Weather Melbourne, get set for a warm spring and early summer By Chloe Booker30 August 2018 4:01pm Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Melbourne is set for a warm spring this year ✔ The bureau expects the dry weather to seep southwards into Victoria


California lawmakers vote to raise the age for buying long guns from 18 to 21


8/30/2018, 12:23:58 AM
Alarmed by a string of mass shootings by young people, California lawmakers on Wednesday sent the governor a bill that would raise the minimum age for buying long guns in the state from 18 to 21. Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Canada Flintridge) said his bill would address concerns raised by incid... ✔ Newsom highlighted the tour in a fundraising email sent out Tuesday morning, which is part of his Blue California campaign to help Democrats in both congressional and legislative races ✔ The conversation up here has to be focused on making sure that event doesn’t happen, said state Sen


Britain will rival anywhere on the planet as a place to do business after Brexit


8/30/2018, 1:07:04 AM
Brexit boom REALITY is making mugs of those who predict Brexit doom. “Despite” our vote to leave and all attempts to talk us down, our entire net national worth GREW five per cent to £10.2trillion … ✔ Shami Chakrabarti has already sold out her credibility to give Corbyn’s Jew-hating mob a virtual clean bill of health ✔ She seems unable to grasp democracy: That precious system that gives everyone a say yes, even those daring to disagree with Anna Soubry


Cham dance in Tibet monastery


8/30/2018, 7:04:32 AM
The annual cham dance at a monastery in Qonggyai county, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. ✔ The annual cham dance at a monastery in Qonggyai county, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region ✔ The dancers, usually lamas, wear masks of various animals and mythical figures as they perform to the accompaniment of religious music ✔ [Photo/China News Service] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next   >>| 1/10 Next


Grenfell council worker 'helped herself to money meant for victims'


8/30/2018, 7:09:15 AM
Jenny McDonagh, from Abbey Wood, south-east London, is accused of obtaining cash meant for survivors of the tragedy (pictured) and victims' grieving family members. ✔ But police discovered the 53-year-old had 28 convictions for 56 offences spanning more than 30 years, including theft, dishonesty offences, arson and grievous bodily harm ✔ The 26-year-old pleaded guilty to the offences and is due to be sentenced on August 24


Thousands flee homes in Myanmar as dam breach floods 85 villages


8/30/2018, 5:26:12 AM
As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday. ✔ The disaster spotlights safety concerns about dams in Southeast Asia after last month’s collapse of a hydroelectric dam in neighbouring Laos that displaced thousands of people and killed at least 27 ✔ The collapse is caused by the damaged spillway, the paper quoted him as saying ✔ Traffic between Myanmar’s major cities of Yangon and Mandalay and the capital, Naypyitaw, was disrupted after the flooding damaged a bridge on the highway linking them


L.A. County planners recommend approval of Tejon Ranch development


8/30/2018, 2:57:24 AM
The Planning Commission voted 4-1 Wednesday to approve the environmental impact report and land-use permits for Centennial, a proposed 19,000-home development on Tejon Ranch. ✔ Both sides of the argument were again on display at Wednesday’s hearing, the fifth this year ✔ The four commissioners who voted in favor of the project agreed to forward these outstanding issues to the board with the note that they did not reach consensus on them


California Senate shelves high-profile bill that would hold police more accountable for killing civilians


8/30/2018, 5:28:46 AM
Major legislation that sought to toughen state standards for police officers to use deadly force in California will not advance this year. Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) announced late Wednesday that lawmakers did not have enough time to enough garner support for the measure, ... ✔ (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) After months of negotiations, a last-minute proposal for a deal in the California Legislature on cleaning up lead paint in homes across the state has failed ✔ Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) said he introduced the bill in response to the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in which a 19-year-old former student allegedly killed 17 people


California's plan to rely entirely on clean energy by 2045 heads to the governor's desk


8/30/2018, 12:37:52 AM
California lawmakers gave final approval on Wednesday to a plan that would put the state on a path to phase out fossil fuels by 2045. State senators voted overwhelmingly to support Senate Bill 100, which would require the state to obtain 100% of its energy from clean sources within the next three... ✔ State senators voted overwhelmingly to support Senate Bill 100, which would require California to obtain 100% of its energy from clean sources within the next three decades ✔ There is absolutely no grey area here, DeMaio said in a statement ✔ Today, California reforms its bail system so that rich and poor alike are treated fairly, he said in a statement


President Trump's right — Google search is biased to the liberal Left


8/30/2018, 1:19:01 AM
PRESIDENT TRUMP is often mocked for writing daft things on Twitter. Whether he is boasting about the size of his nuclear weapons or mocking a TV presenter for her facelift, he has become known as t… ✔ That Google’s search results are not accidental is clear from the fact you can change them by paying to advertise ✔ But we do need to talk about the fact that a handful of huge corporations led by politically biased people have become the gatekeepers of political life


Falwell defends Trump over report he took credit for repealing law still on the books


8/30/2018, 12:03:19 AM
Falwell also responded to report that he told President Trump to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions ✔ He also responded to NBC News' report that Mr. Trump said evangelicals were one election away from losing everything that you've got if Congress changed hands, and that their opponents were violent people who would violently seek to reverse gains for evangelicals made during the Trump presidency


Bobi Wine and the beginning of the end of Museveni's power


8/30/2018, 5:13:32 AM
Can an artist-turned-politician deliver the final blow that brings down Museveni's rule in Uganda? ✔ In 2017, when a court nullified an earlier parliamentary election in Kyaddondo East, a  constituency on the outskirts of Kampala, Kyagulanyi seized the opportunity ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rosebell Kagumire Rosebell Kagumire is a writer, blogger and pan-African feminist


How the US fracking boom almost fell apart


8/30/2018, 5:47:51 AM
The long read: The wild tale of America’s energy revolution, and the cowboy who made and lost billions on shale ✔ Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty On 12 February 1993 – a day McClendon would later describe as the best of his career – he and Ward took Chesapeake public ✔ They did so despite the fact that their accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, had issued a going concern warning, meaning its bean-counters worried that Chesapeake might go out of business ✔ To buy it for £9.99, go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846


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