Agencies Head to 'Unprecedented' Disaster
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was "unprecedented" devastation wrought by tidal waves and a massive earthquake that killed tens of thousands in southern Asia.
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China orders emergency measures to fight nationwide transport chaos caused by severe weather conditions.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday directed the Health and Human Services Department to establish a task force to plan for potential catastrophes like a terrorist attack, pandemic influenza or a natural disaster where there would be a large number of casualties, the White House said on Thursday.
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PARIS: Governments and aid organisations around the world scrambled to offer aid and technical help after the devastating quake and tidal waves that killed thousands of people in Asia on Sunday.
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After a major earthquake and 10 typhoons, there's more concern that the system can't handle such disasters.
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The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain's chief scientist said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Humanitarian groups and governments across the globe launched the largest relief effort in history Tuesday in a desperate race to save thousands of tsunami survivors facing a new threat from deadly diseases.
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ROME (CP) - Aid teams rushed from Europe to southern Asian countries devastated by tidal waves Sunday, warning that anything less than an urgent response would add many more deaths to a toll already in the thousands.
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Flooding in the UK is a threat on the scale of terrorism or a flu pandemic and should be planned for accordingly, the independent review into the summer floods said Monday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - The massive Asian tsunami  relief operation faces absolute chaos and "a wall of  devastation" in Indonesia as well as the threat of pirates  plundering aid, relief groups struggling to help thousands in  camps said on Monday.
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Parts of the UK are at a "serious" risk of flooding on Sunday, according to the Environment Agency.
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Dozens of casualties are reported from tidal waves and earth tremors in southern and eastern Asia.
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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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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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Nations and businesses pledge aid to areas hit by Sunday's disaster.
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The United States has dispatched disaster teams to the Asian countries hit hard by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunamis and is
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The agency has come under criticism for its disaster relief program as well as its operating, lending and contracting practices.