Better preparation is preventing deaths despite worsening climate disasters, UN says
Climate disasters are getting worse, but fewer people are dying thanks to better warning systems and planning, says a top UN official.
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Climate disasters are getting worse, but fewer people are dying thanks to better warning systems and planning, says a top UN official.
UNITED NATIONS, United States — Nothing can "replace or substitute" the UN Palestinian refugee agency, whose staff were implicated in the Hamas attacks on Israel, the UN's coordinator for Gaza aid said Tuesday even as Israel made new claims against it.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 18) — The National Security Council on Thursday said it disagrees with the “basis and scope” of Canada’s warning from traveling to Mindanao and urged its officials to engage in a constructive dialogue with the Philippine government to know the security situation in the area.
The administration should get its act together. We cannot have the President, the chief architect of foreign policy, say one thing, while the Department of Foreign Affairs says another.
MANILA, Philippines — Early warning broadcast system is planned to be integrated into digital television formats, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said on Tuesday.
ABOARD THE BRP CABRA (AP) — As a U.S. Navy surveillance plane flew in circles, keeping a close watch, dozens of Chinese coast guard and accompanying ships chased and encircled Philippine vessels in the latest confrontation in one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the South China Sea.
A powerful earthquake that shook the southern Philippines killed at least one villager and injured several others as thousands scrambled out of their homes in panic and jammed roads to higher grounds after a tsunami warning was issued, officials said Sunday.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Saturday evening canceled the tsunami warning it issued for all coastal communities in the provinces of Surigao del Sur and Davao Oriental following the major quake that jolted several Mindanao areas.