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title: "Extreme weather &#8216;most important cause of poverty&#8217;, and other stories &#8211; our morning round-up"
date: "2013-10-16T09:57:08+01:00"
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# Extreme weather ‘most important cause of poverty’, and other stories – our morning round-up

[Extreme weather can be the ‘most important cause of poverty’](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24538078)

New research suggests that extreme weather events will keep people poor in many parts of the world. The researchers say that up to 325 million people will be living in countries highly exposed to natural hazards by 2030. (BBC)

[Protests as Catholic group holds funeral for Nazi officer](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10381452/Protests-as-Catholic-group-holds-funeral-for-Nazi-officer.html)

Angry protests broke out Tuesday in a town outside Rome after an ultraconservative Catholic group agreed to hold the funeral of a 100-year-old former Nazi officer. (Telegraph)

[Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker Prize](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24541612)

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has, at the age of 28, become the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries. (BBC)

[Typhoon Wipha wreaks deadly destruction on Japan](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/typhoon-wipha-japan-izu-oshima)

A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo’s transportation during the morning rush. (Guardian)

[China: arrests follow protests over response to catastrophic floods](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/china-arrests-protest-response-catastrophic-flooding)

Thousands took part in the Tuesday protest in the Zhejiang province city of Yuyao and an undisclosed number were arrested for “radical acts”, including pelting police with bricks and flipping over government vehicles. Residents were angered over an allegedly botched response to the flooding and the slow restoration of electricity and other basic services. (Guardian)