U.N. sends aid to besieged Lebanese towns
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The United Nations sent relief supplies to the besieged southern Lebanese town of Qana on Monday and to the coastal city of Tyre, officials said. However, U.N. officials added that convoys elsewhere in Lebanon are suspended because of the fragile security situation.
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Placing its chips on the besieged Lebanese government, the Bush administration is considering a large increase in aid to the Lebanese army and hoping moderate Arab governments will help, as well.
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The U.N. refugee agency rushed aid to hundreds of Darfur women and children who survived a 125-mile journey to safety after their town was attacked by planes and helicopters, a spokeswoman said Friday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   on Friday European nations would provide the backbone of a   15,000-strong United Nations peace force for Lebanon and he had   asked France to lead it.
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.
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UN peacekeepers beefed up security on Thursday in a Haitian city where more than 1,000 people died in floods, after desperate survivors fought each other to get at emergency food supplies.
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The United Nations' top humanitarian official inspected firsthand the destruction wrought by Israeli air raids on south Beirut as he began a relief mission to Lebanon on Sunday.
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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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Lebanese troops moved on Tuesday into a town wrecked by Israel's war with Hezbollah, as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said he hoped for word on the lifting of an Israeli blockade on Lebanon within ...
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Two military transport planes said to be carrying US military aid for the Lebanese army reportedly arrive in Beirut.
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The United Nations and other agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan Monday after floods unleashed by a cyclone and days of torrential rain left 1.5 million people devastated.
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GENEVA  - UNICEF said Tuesday that it was providing urgently needed aid for 50,000 people caught up in an upsurge in fighting in Congo.
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Two military transport planes landed at the Beirut airport on Friday, bringing foreign military aid to help the Lebanese army fight Islamic militants, security officials said.
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Arab foreign ministers decided Monday to send a delegation to the United Nations to represent Lebanon's interests at the Security Council, an aide to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said.
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The United Nations suspended attempts Tuesday to send relief to southern Lebanon because of heavy shelling in the area, a spokeswoman said, though aid shipments were arriving elsewhere in the country.
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The United Nations on Friday asked wealthy nations to donate an extra &#36;59 million in aid to help about 400,000 people in Grenada and Haiti recover from a recent wave of storms and flooding.
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Following a successful appeal for aid to rebuild Lebanon, donors turn their attention to the Palestinian crisis.