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Kim wants financial instrument for Ebola-like crises
2014-10-11 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jamaica Gleaner: In the wake of an "inadequate and slow" global response to the Ebola outbreak, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Friday called for the creation of a new pandemic emergency facility to respond to future outbreaks by delivering money to countries in crisis. Kim said he would like to develop the proposal for a financial instrument with the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and regional development banks. Even as the focus should now be intensely on doing everything possible...
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World leaders to gather at UN in shadow of Islamic State, Ebola crises
2014-09-21 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. There is little hope the 193-nation UN general assembly will achieve much in the annual five-day marathon of speeches. But on the sidelines, US officials plan to lobby allies for pledges of concrete military assistance to help defeat Islamic State,...
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Oregonlive.com: Look for the pin to identify Portland police specially trained to respond to mental health crises, 9/10/14
2014-09-11 23:25:34| PortlandOnline
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Call for new way to fix debt crises
2014-09-10 14:28:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UN's general assembly has called for a new international system to help countries resolve debt crises
Tom Walsh: From Jesus to Ford, GM and Kwame, PR man's book takes readers inside crises
2014-08-10 13:30:44| Automakers - Topix.net
From the family feud between Ford and Firestone over tire failures in SUVs to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's scandalous downfall and today's furor over defective General Motors ignition switches, Detroit has seen lots of high-profile crises in recent years.