U.N. Summit Looks at Disaster Prevention
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The world's nations, generous with their aid since the Asian tsunami catastrophe, must take action to be prepared for and prevent such natural events from becoming mass killers, the U.N. emergency relief chief said Monday.
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LONDON, Jan 7  (IPS) - Setting up an early warning system for tsunamis is  expected to top the agenda at an  international meeting on small  island developing states taking place in Mauritius from  Sunday.
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The tsunami that crashed into coastlines across southern Asia is likely to present the United Nations with its biggest and costliest relief effort, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said on Monday.
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An ambitious plan to set up an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is expected to dominate an upcoming gathering of leaders from stricken nations and world donors seeking to prevent a repeat of last week's carnage.
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U.S. helicopters stepped up aid flights in tsunami-hit Indonesia Tuesday as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged rich nations to spend more on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits.
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World leaders prepare to meet at the UN in New York to discuss ways of alleviating hunger and poverty.
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30 December 2004 - With the United Nations health agency warning that up to 5 million people in Southeast Asia are without basic services after Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today chaired a top level emergency meeting to
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries worst hit by the tsunami wave devastation as governments and aid groups sent money and emergency specialists to answer desperate pleas for help.
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World leaders gathered at the United Nations on Tuesday to confront an agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq
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World leaders gathered here for an emergency summit with the United Nations saying aid pledges since the Asian tsunami disaster were near four billion dollars as the International Monetary Fund offered one billion dollars in aid.
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The top U.N. official for the environment asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to convene an emergency international summit to combat global climate change, an official said, joining a growing chorus of world leaders and scientists calling for urgent action to cut greenhouse gases.
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The government holds a summit in an attempt to take action over the number of deaths on building sites.
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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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Despite campaigns to protect  civilians in war zones, progress is gradual and failure too  obvious in many places in the world, the U.N. emergency relief  coordinator said on Friday.
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Amid warnings of new infectious disease outbreaks, delegates to the World Health Organization&#39;s regional conference were discussing Tuesday ways to improve strategies for dealing with SARS, avian influenza and threats to food safety
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PHUKET, Thailand  - The United Nations emerged  Saturday as a coordinator for a regional tsunami warning center  after officials from 43 nations including India, Indonesia and  Thailand failed to agree who should run it.
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Delegates at a UN aid conference will be asked to give firm commitments on helping Asian tsunami victims.