Filipino typhoon survivor Domingo Realino applies paint on a sign board in Anibong village. The village was severely damaged by the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City. One year after Haiyan left nearly 8,000 people dead or missing in the eastern Philippines, many survivors are still suffering from emotional distress despite being busy with physically rebuilding their lives.
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On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped phones in Trump Tower. The president provided no evidence, nor did he provide the source of the information.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer released a statement Sunday saying that Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity in the 2016 election, «congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.»
Kuwait City, Karachi and the Iranian city of Ahvaz all experience some of the highest temperatures in the world. Such extreme heat, combined with poor air quality and planning, can have grave effects, especially for their poorest residents.
Sharifa Alshalfan, an architect based in Kuwait City, explains that Kuwaitis spend all of their time indoors. “It’s almost as if the outdoors doesn’t exist,” she says. “That’s the mindset of people here.”
It’s true that Kuwait City is one of the hottest cities in the world. On average, summer is hotter than in desert city Timbuktu, which sits on the edge of the Sahara. But it’s also wealthy – modern Kuwait City is built on oil money – which is why most Kuwaitis don’t really experience the heat; they can afford to avoid it. It’s generally only those on lower incomes, many of them immigrants from southeast Asia, that Alshalfan will see shading themselves under umbrellas on the street or riding public buses.
While Kuwaitis may be convinced that they’re living in the hottest city on the planet, there is at least one place that may be able to top it – if not for highest-ever temperature, then certainly for the impact of heat on its population. Iran’s Ahvaz, in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, sometimes exceeds 50C in July. Yet it’s not so much the heat as the pollution that makes life unbearable for Ahvaz’s 1.5 million residents.
