Caritas aid missions are reporting that villages in remote areas of Nepal have been utterly devastated by the earthquake Speaking from Pokhari danda in Gorkha 15 km from the epicentre Stefen Teplan of Caritas Germany said ldquo Sixty percent of the village is destroyed More than food and water

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Shortly after midnight Wednesday morning local time the Indonesian government put eight men to death by firing squad It was the first implementation of the death penalty since new President Joko Widodo came to office late last year nbsp Two of the eight were Australian citizens In April of 2005

nbsp ldquo We are the first generation that can end poverty and the last generation that can avoid the worst impacts of climate change rdquo UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told this to a conference of 60 scientists and academicians political leaders including the Presidents of Italy and Ec

Another case of possible police brutality has led to civil disorder, this time in Baltimore.

As aftershocks continue to terrify survivors thousands of whom are living in tent cities that have sprung up in open spaces in the Nepal capital of Kathmandu the death toll continues to climb mdash now more than 4 000 are believed to have been killed more than 9 000 have been injured and thousand