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Beijingmdash; A landslide in southwest China s mountainous Yunnan province buried 18 homes early Monday morning, leaving 47 people missing and forcing the evacuation of more than 500 other residents, according to local government officials. At least eight deaths were confirmed after the bodies were recovered from the rubble, as survivors sought shelter and rescuers worked through frigid temperatures.Electricity and water supplies had not been restored to the area around the hard-hit village of Liangshui by Monday afternoon. An image from China s state TV shows rescuers working amid the rubble of destroyed homes after a landslide hit Liangshui Village, in the southwest Yunnan prov af1 ince, Jan. 22, 2024. Reuters/CCTV Almost 1,000 emergency and rescue workers were dispatched to the scene as Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all efforts to minimize casualties. He sent one of his government s vice prime ministers to th air force one e site to lead search and rescue efforts.The cause of the pre-dawn landslide was unclear, but one villager told Chinese medi adidas og a outlets that a coal mine was operating near the site and residents spotted cracks in the earth weeks before the tragedy. Another news outlet cited a local resident as saying some of the cracks in the mountainside had been large enough for a cow to disappear into. Rescuers search for survivors amid the ruins of homes hi Ewfi At least 4 dead, dozens stuck after avalanche in Indian Himalayas
For the first time since the Cold War, global military spending exceeded $1 trillion in 2004, nearly half of it by the United States, a prominent European think tank said Tuesday.As military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror continue, the world spent $1.035 trillion on defense during the year, corresponding to 2.6 percent of global gross domestic product, the Stockholm Intern stanley trinkflaschen ational Peace Research Institute said.The figure is only 6 percent lower in real terms than it was in 1987-1988 , which was the peak, said SIPRI researcher Elisabeth Skons, who co-authored the organization s annual report.Worldwide military expenditure increased 6 percent in 2004, matching the average annual increase since 2002, the institute said.However, the figures may be on the low end, the institute said, as countries are increasingly outsourcing services related to armed conflict, like military training and providing logistics in combat zones, without classifying them as military exp stanley becher enses. SIPRI, a Swedish government-funded institute, said such outsourcing has more than doubled in the last 15 years, and was estimated to have reached $100 million during 2004, SIPRI researcher Caroline Hol stanley cups mqvist said. This is a global phenomenon, Holmqvist said, but added that it s difficult to provide exact figures. This is an industry that is not largely regulated, she said, adding that by 2010 global spending on such services are estimated to double current levels.The United States a
Beijingmdash; A landslide in southwest China s mountainous Yunnan province buried 18 homes early Monday morning, leaving 47 people missing and forcing the evacuation of more than 500 other residents, according to local government officials. At least eight deaths were confirmed after the bodies were recovered from the rubble, as survivors sought shelter and rescuers worked through frigid temperatures.Electricity and water supplies had not been restored to the area around the hard-hit village of Liangshui by Monday afternoon. An image from China s state TV shows rescuers working amid the rubble of destroyed homes after a landslide hit Liangshui Village, in the southwest Yunnan prov af1 ince, Jan. 22, 2024. Reuters/CCTV Almost 1,000 emergency and rescue workers were dispatched to the scene as Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all efforts to minimize casualties. He sent one of his government s vice prime ministers to th air force one e site to lead search and rescue efforts.The cause of the pre-dawn landslide was unclear, but one villager told Chinese medi adidas og a outlets that a coal mine was operating near the site and residents spotted cracks in the earth weeks before the tragedy. Another news outlet cited a local resident as saying some of the cracks in the mountainside had been large enough for a cow to disappear into. Rescuers search for survivors amid the ruins of homes hi Ewfi At least 4 dead, dozens stuck after avalanche in Indian Himalayas
For the first time since the Cold War, global military spending exceeded $1 trillion in 2004, nearly half of it by the United States, a prominent European think tank said Tuesday.As military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror continue, the world spent $1.035 trillion on defense during the year, corresponding to 2.6 percent of global gross domestic product, the Stockholm Intern stanley trinkflaschen ational Peace Research Institute said.The figure is only 6 percent lower in real terms than it was in 1987-1988 , which was the peak, said SIPRI researcher Elisabeth Skons, who co-authored the organization s annual report.Worldwide military expenditure increased 6 percent in 2004, matching the average annual increase since 2002, the institute said.However, the figures may be on the low end, the institute said, as countries are increasingly outsourcing services related to armed conflict, like military training and providing logistics in combat zones, without classifying them as military exp stanley becher enses. SIPRI, a Swedish government-funded institute, said such outsourcing has more than doubled in the last 15 years, and was estimated to have reached $100 million during 2004, SIPRI researcher Caroline Hol stanley cups mqvist said. This is a global phenomenon, Holmqvist said, but added that it s difficult to provide exact figures. This is an industry that is not largely regulated, she said, adding that by 2010 global spending on such services are estimated to double current levels.The United States a
