World News in Brief: Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track

The world must act on “unacceptable failures” to protect persons with disabilities from the damaging impact of living through a natural disaster, the UN office dealing with disaster risk said on Thursday.

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World News in Brief: Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track

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