Police in Rio de Janeiro have taken control of one of Brazil's largest and most lawless slums. Officers raised the Brazilian flag atop the Rocinha favela after moving into the slum just before dawn. They say the operation was completed without a shot being fired.
A group of 20 countries at risk from climate change have called for faster disbursement of funds that have been allocated to help them cope with their changing environment. Speaking at a two-day conference in Dhaka, a Bangladeshi minister, Doctor Hasan Mahmud, said only 10% of the $30bn pledged to poor countries at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009 had been disbursed. He told the BBC his country already felt the consequences of climate change.
"In Bangladesh, climate change is a reality. In other parts of the world, in some countries, climate change is, too, threat; but in Bangladesh, that is not threat. Sea level rise - we see the sea level rise and we feel the sea level rise in Bangladesh, more frequent natural calamities, more storm[s], more cyclone[s] and more flooding."
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