GEJET:
Netherlands:
Japan:
Japan braces for typhoon Neoguri 55,000 people urged to evacuate U.S. officials at Kadena Air Force Base warned residents to take serious precautions. “I can’t stress enough how dangerous this typhoon may be when it hits Okinawa,” Commander James Hecker of the 18th Wing stationed in Kadena said in a statement posted online. “This is the most powerful typhoon forecast to hit the island in 15 years; we expect damaging winds to arrive by early Tuesday morning. “So be prepared!” Hecker said. “Tie down your outdoor items and work with your neighbors to help them.” He added: “During the typhoon, do not go outside… anything not tied down, even small items, could become deadly projectiles.”
Debris flow in Nagano prefecture (Japanese) – 1 death, train tracks displaced and houses destroyed
3 deaths from typhoon (Japanese): aged 12, 83 and 77 (all male)
Heavy rain in Kanto area end of June (Japanese)
USA:
Other:
Vulnerable people:
Improvements in life spans, education and
incomes are slowing due to natural disasters, misguided government policies and
worsening inequality in a world where the 85 richest people have as much wealth
as the 3.5 billion poorest people, the United Nations said Thursday in its
annual human development report.
“As this report says, it’s not rocket science,”
UNDP head Helen Clark said in an interview before the report’s release. “Where
people do address these things, development can come along very, very nicely.
Where they haven’t addressed a lot of vulnerabilities and development deficits,
as in Syria, it all comes spectacularly unstuck.” The UNDP report, published annually since
1990, is intended to inform and influence policy makers. Governments watch the
rankings carefully, and “When they don’t do well they put a lot of pressure on
us to change the rankings,” Malik said.
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