earthquake
Haiti earthquake survivors land in Paris
The first wave of survivors from Port au Prince landed at Paris Orly airport on 18 January, while hundreds of other flights are expected over the next few days. The earthquake that has destroyed Haiti’s capital has exacerbated the already appalling economic and political conditions that have marked the island over the past years - from the riotous overthrow of president Aristide in 2004 to the collapse of the government, lack of healthcare, string of hurricanes, and the enduring, rampant poverty
earthquake, natural disaster, france, poverty, society, paris
Climate change summit in Copenhagen: after us, the deluge
We all know about it. Between 7 and 18 December, Copenhagen hosts the UN climate change conference. There's been lots of talk about how 'useful' it will be. US president Obama (after he picks ups his Peace Nobel in Oslo on 10 December) and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao will be representing in Denmark, courtesy of the world's two biggest polluters. That should be enough to breathe some kind of half-sigh of relief. Like the German director Roland Emmerich's sciene fiction film 2012, which forecasts the umpteenth end of the world, the date is of some interest. That after all is when the nifty Kyoto protocol expires
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G8 summit: amid the ruins of L'Aquila earthquake
Three months after the earthquake that struck the capital of the Abruzzo region, the G8 summit will have a powerful effect on an exhausted people, tens of thousands of whom are still waiting to return home
