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MASERU, Lesotho AP ?United Nations Secretary-General Antnio Guterres on Thursday urged rich nations to honor their commitments to help the world poor countries fight climate change in a speech to Lesotho Parliament and repeated his hope that Africa would soon have permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council.Guterres is on a three-day visit to southern Africa and was in South Africa on Wednesday. His two-day trip to neighboring Lesotho, a small landlocked mountainous kingdom, will also see him visit the Katse Dam, an integral part of the country plans to harness its water reserves.A focus of Gu stanley cup uk terres ; visit has been the stanley espana money poor nations in Africa and elsewhere need to deal with the impact of a warming planet. While Africa contributes a tiny amount to global warming, it is one of the worst affected continents.Countries adopted an agreement at the U.N. climate talks in Azerbaijan last month to inject at least $300 billion a year to stanley cup help developing nations cope with global warming. It was far short of the more than $1 trillion developing countries were calling for.Developed countries must meet their commitments 8230; and deliver the promised $300 billion annually for climate finance, Gutteres said to Lesotho lawmakers. Landlocked and least developed countries like yours are especially vulnerable. He also said the new Loss and Damage Fund that was created to compensate poor countries for natural disasters caused by clim Rfgw 2% of kids and 7% of adults have gotten the new COVID shots, US data show
BUCKSPORT ?Cynthia Haskell Folsom, 81, died Jan. 25, 2013. She was born May 20, 1931, in Dexter, the daughter of Leroy Haskell and Madelyn Daggett Haskell.Cynthia was a member of Elm Street Congregational Church, Bucksport, where she enjoyed working on the church suppers, the Christmas church fairs and volunteering at Bucksport Food Pantry. She enjoyed playin stanley quencher uk g the clarinet in the Brewer Hometown Band. She had moved from the area but always considered her home Bucksport. She was always good natured, never asked anything from anyone, and was only too willing to help or be there. She will be sadly missed by many.She is survived by three children, Lynn DeGrenier and her husband, Paul, of Bangor, Richard Folsom of Denver, N.C., and Ann Suggs and her husband, Ted, of Cornelius, N.C.; and seven grandchildren. She also leaves behind two sisters, Elaine Knowland and her husband, Tom, of Matthews, N.C., and Hilda Harlow and her husband, Warren, of Wallingord, Conn.; and her beloved cat, Smokey. She was predeceased by her hu stanley thermosflasche sband, Linw stanley cup ood J. Folsom, in 1991; and her longtime companion and soul mate, John Kennedy, in 2009.Family and friends will gather for visitation 10 a.m. until the time of service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, at Elm Street Congregational Church, Bucksport, with Pastor Peter Remick officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Bucksport Elm Street Congregational Church, P.O. Box 878, Bucksport, ME 04416 or Hancock County Hospice, 14 McKenzie Ave., Ellsworth,
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