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UN chief aims to build defences of poor against climate change By Megan Rowling PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that climate-related disasters are taking an ever greater toll on the poor and can wipe out decades of development gains, as he launched a global partnership to boost the resilience of vulnerable communities. The impacts of climate change - from intensifying droughts and floods to sea-level rise - are strengthening, as ecosystems and food and water supplies come under increasing pressure, he said. Economic losses from disasters have increased by more than 50 percent over the past decade, he noted. The hardest-hit are poor people, including small-scale farmers, fishing communities and indigenous people, he added. "As climate impacts increase, we will see greater disruption to economies and international security," he told an event on the ...

10 suspected robbers Killed in Lagos  No fewer than 10 suspected armed robbers have been killed in the last 12 days in different parts of Lagos State during exchange of gunfire with the police. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, made the disclosure on Monday while addressing newsmen on the activities of the command in the last two weeks. Owoseni said while some of the suspects died exchanging gunfire with the police during gridlock robbery, others died robbing some residents in different areas. He said that 19 other robbery suspects and 11 cultists were arrested and 15 ammunition, eight guns and two vehicles were recovered within the same period. ADVERTISEMENT According to him, other exhibits recovered are four speed boats, two canoes, four military camouflage uniforms, two mobile police uniform and handsets used by the robbers to attack banks in Agbara, Ogun. The commissioner said within the period, 949 suspected miscreants were arrested during raids of some bl...

US marine convicted for killing transgender Filipino  NAN A Philippine Court on Tuesday convicted a US Marine of homicide for killing a transgender Filipino in a motel in 2014. Lance Corporal Joseph Pemberton, who had been detained at the Philippine military’s headquarters, was sentenced to up to 12 years in prison for the crime.