UN presses urgent disaster response
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WASHINGTON -- World leaders meeting yesterday in the Indonesian capital promised more money, more cooperation, and a high-tech disaster early warning system in what UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called "a race against time" to save survivors of the deadly Asian tsunami and protect the region from future danger.
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UNITED IN SHOCK: United Nations delegates agree to work together to better guard their people against natural disasters in wake of Asia's devastating tsunami.
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The United Nations has called for emergency assistance to help over 6.5 million people at risk from Afghanistan's worst drought in recent history.
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The task of taking aid to the survivors of the earthquake in Indonesia is "enormous", the United Nations warns.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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Campaigners petition the UN to take urgent action to protect iconic natural sites from climate change.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to help  the victims of the most wide-reaching natural disaster in  living memory and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared  they were in a "race against time."
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The United Nations and European Union were urged today to muster a more effective international response to the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an unprecedented world response to what is an unprecedented wave disaster in the Indian Ocean.
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United Nations appeals for disaster- and war-stricken countries in 2004 &#151; excluding special appeals for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami &#151; and the proportion of money received:
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United Nations experts called on governments around the world to build early-warning systems that can cut death tolls from natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami that has killed nearly 40,000.
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The United Nations urgently needs  international support to boost its presence in Somalia and  restore basic services, or the country could collapse into  chaos, U.N. aid officials said on Monday.
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The U.N. environment agency pressed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to call an emergency climate summit amid dire reports about the risks from global warming.
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United Nations officials issued an urgent plea for some $25 million in emergency aid to the Central Asian country hardest hit by an unusually harsh winter.
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The global Red Cross issued an emergency  appeal for immediate aid to hundreds of thousands of people  stricken by tsunamis that pummeled coastal communities in  southern Asia on Sunday.
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France's President Jacques Chirac Friday called on Europe and the United Nations to organise a humanitarian rapid reaction force to deal with natural catastrophes such as that currently afflicting Asia.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a  conference on reducing the risks.