LONDON Air Jordan 4 For Sale , Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Birmingham was Thursday named as the British government's choice to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
It beat Liverpool in the race to stage the event, after the organising federation started a search for a new host city after Durban pulled out.
Britain's second biggest city will now face competition from rival bids made by Australia Air Jordan 13 For Sale , Canada and Malaysia.
The British government's Department for Digital, Culture Air Jordan 1 For Sale , Media and Sport (DCMS) had sought potential bidders in Britain to host the showpiece event after the South African city pulled out. It became a two-horse race between Birmingham and Liverpool.
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Birmingham's plans also include the building of Britain's largest permanent athletics stadium, along with four indoor arenas.
The cost of staging the games in Birmingham would be as much as 900 million U.S. dollars with 75 percent coming from the national government and the rest from Birmingham's city hall.
HOUSTON Air Jordan For Sale , Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said it is working to accelerate buyouts of repeatedly flooded properties in Houston area, according to local media on Thursday.
Houston Chronicle newspaper reported on its website that the buyouts following Hurricane Harvey aimed at helping Houstonians escape perennially soggy neighborhoods and keeping the federal government from paying to rebuild homes time and time again.
FEMA is receiving thousands of Harvey claims and paying out millions of dollars every day. By the end of Wednesday Air Jordan 4 Shoes For Sale , more than 80,000 Texans had filed claims and FEMA had issued about 76 million U.S. dollars in advance payments.
Harris County where Houston is located Air Jordan 13 Shoes For Sale , has already bought out more homeowners than any county in the country with spending 225 million dollars in purchases over the last 20 years, according to FEMA.
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