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Were the roles reversed, a downstream China would have stridently accused an upstream India of exacerbating flood-related death and destruction by breaching its international obligations.
More than 70 years later, the world has more – and more advanced – weapons than ever, and armed conflicts are raging worldwide, resulting in large-scale death and suffering of combatants and civilians alike.
This opens the way for even more death, destruction, and suffering, while discrediting the world order to which we solemnly committed when the UN was established.
But in the face of conflicts that are producing widespread death and destruction, the UN and its power players have a responsibility – as stated in the UN Charter – to do everything possible to restore peace.
From the 1960’s onwards, bombs and death were the order of the day in regions like Northern Ireland, Corsica (France), South Tyrol (Italy), and the Basque country (Spain).
That would be the kiss of death, following Blair’s controversial mimicking of US policy in Iraq.
Finally, the regime suffers ideological exhaustion and death.
And a once placid, even predictable, presidential election campaign has been thrown into disarray by the death of the Brazilian Socialist Party candidate, Eduardo Campos, in an airplane crash in August.
His son’s ascension, unlike that of Bashar on the eve of his father’s death, is anything but settled.
Each year, an estimated 750,000 people die from antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections, and the death toll will climb unless the global health community acts decisively.
Burma’s AgonyAs the death toll mounts from the cyclone that struck a densely populated area of Burma stretching from the Irrawaddy Delta to the capital city of Rangoon continues to soar, the country’s military dictatorship is pressing ahead with efforts to consolidate its power.
When monsoons failed, millions of Indians faced imminent death.
Such people are dying not because early death is inevitable, but because they cannot afford the medicines to keep themselves alive.
If every American gave $10 per year to this cause, over 1 million Africans could be saved from AIDS death each year, with money left over to fight the disease.
It is a matter of life and death for 20 million refugees and millions of other vulnerable migrants – and a profound test of the civic health of democratic societies worldwide.
Making matters worse for the SPD, the demographic profile of its core electorate amounts to a death sentence.
Imagine that you are in a family affected by AIDS, your breadwinner received a death warrant, and you watched this person slipping away.
Symptoms otherwise meeting the DSM criteria are not considered disorders if they arise after the death of an intimate, do not last more than two months, and do not include certain particularly severe symptoms.
In many of these countries, including the US, the European conquerors and their descendants nearly wiped out the indigenous populations, partly through disease, but also through war, starvation, death marches, and forced labor.
I have nothing but praise for Gates’s efforts to reduce the death toll from these diseases, which primarily affect the world’s poorest people.
The average American doesn’t care much about the dollar’s external value, yet the value of the euro seems a question of life and death for Europeans.
The reasons are connected to Premier Ivica Racan's unwillingness to tackle the centers of power left behind by the regime of the late President Franjo Tudjman, whose nationalist-minded party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), was voted out of office in January 2001 following Tudjman's death in December 1999.
Khmer Rouge soldiers beat her father to death, and she remembers being shot at for sport by communist cadres as she and dozens of other peasants scuttled up a mountainside.
The air was stale but heavy with the stench of death in interrogation chambers, barren save for a single bed frame, shackles, and a chair.
It is this narrow, black-and-white view of humanity that has perpetuated a cycle of violence in Cambodia, where raging mobs beat to death robbery suspects and young mistresses suffer acid attacks by jealous wives.
In some Islamic nations – Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, for instance – sodomy is a crime for which the maximum penalty is death.
Great as the death toll, physical and emotional suffering of survivors, and property damage caused by the tsunami were, even greater losses could be inflicted by other disasters of low (but not negligible), or unknown, probability.
Bringing the World Health Organization Back to HealthCAMBRIDGE: Many life and death issues facing developing countries can only be addressed by international joint action.
With the official death of the Bretton Woods System in 1973, the IMF lost its only function and should have been abolished.
Despite being preventable and curable, it is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, and the most common cause of death by an infectious agent in modern times.
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