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Month: June 2024

UN official highlights how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climate

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better warning, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said. The world hasn’t really noticed how the type of

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Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. People who have worked at Israel’s only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detained in the Gaza Strip say these are

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