Overall Green Flood alert in Sri Lanka from 08 Jan 2013 00:00 UTC to 17 Jan 2013 23:59 UTC

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in Sri Lanka

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Articles after 07 Jan 2013

Subsidizing starvation

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:32:00 +0100antiguanews (en)

In the wake of Haiti's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake exactly three years ago, former U.S. President Bill Clinton issued an unusual and now infamous apology. Calling his subsidies to American rice farmers in the 1990s a mistake because it undercut rice production in Haiti, Clinton said he had....

Philippines (the): Asia-Pacific region 1 - 7 January, 2013 - Natural disasters and other events being monitored by the OCHA regional office for the Asia-Pacific

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:34:00 +0100reliefWeb (en)

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Malaysia, Philippines (the), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka , Thailand Philippines - TC Bopha (Pablo) struck the southern Philippines about 5 weeks ago. On 3 Jan, the death toll stands at 1,067 with a further 848 people reported missing.

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