Earlier this month, Drew Wallace started paying the cooks, bussers and the rest of the 20 or so employees of his restaurant the Bull and Beggar, in Asheville, N.C., for the first time since two feet of river water flooded its dining room in September. “It’s a really victorious feeling,” …
In its annual Asian Development Outlook Report 2024, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Thursday termed political unrest, devastating floods, and policy slippage as major hurdles in Pakistan’s economic progress, citing uncertainty as a risk towards the country’s efforts for stabilisation, recovery and reforms. “The economy contracted as devastating floods, political …
Flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have left at least 19 people dead and seven others missing, officials have said. Mud, rocks and uprooted trees rushed down a mountainside and engulfed villages in the Pesisir Selatan district of West Sumatra province late on Friday following torrential rains, …
