Dirty water 'kills 1.5m children'
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Lack of access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation kills 1.5 million children every year, Unicef says.
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The death toll in Haiti from the flooding that has followed Tropical Storm Jeanne shot up to at least 1,500 yesterday, with hundreds of Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm
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About one million cribs designed by Pennsylvania-based Simplicity for Children have been recalled after the suffocation deaths of at least two children, the government said today.
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BEIJING - Falling water levels in China's Yangtze River have left 1 million people short of drinking water, state media reported Monday.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000 people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused 64.7 billion yuan (&#36;7.82 billion) in direct economic losses, the official Xinhua News agency said.
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GONAIVES -- The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said yesterday. Rescuers counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud, and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone by last night. Another 58 bodies have been recovered elsewhere in Haiti's northwest province, Deslorges said. He ...
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At least 1,000 people aboard a train travelling along the Sri Lankan coast perished when waves swept the carriages off the track in one of the tsunami disaster&#39;s biggest single losses of life.
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Australians mopping up flood-damaged homes north of Sydney on Tuesday faced disease from sewage-contaminated floodwaters, while around 1,000 people remained cut off by flooded rivers, said officials.
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Some 1.6 million people, mainly small  children, die each year from a "kitchen killer" -- disease  brought on by inhaling smoke from cooking stoves and indoor  fires, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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More than one billion people drink  unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the  world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N.  agencies said on Thursday.
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By Sian Powell  URGENT calls have been made to teach children water safety skills after a young boy drowned in a Nuneaton lake.
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More than 10 children have died of diarrhoea or dysentery in the storm-battered Philippines and fears of further sickness as well as an outbreak of malaria are rising due to the wet conditions and a lack of clean drinking water, UN agencies warned.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.
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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Bangladeshi children and women face acute malnutrition after the worst floods in 15 years swept the impoverished country, the United Nations has warned.
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More than 1,000 people have been killed or are missing after mudslides and flash floods devastated three coastal towns in the eastern Philippines, a military spokesman said Thursday.
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More than 1,000 people a day die as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a report says.