UN asks for Bangladesh flood aid
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The UN urges the international community to come up with more aid for flood victims in Bangladesh.
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JERUSALEM -- The United Nations will ask donor countries to contribute a record $450 million in aid to the Palestinians, whose economy has been devastated by international economic sanctions on the Hamas-led government, UN officials said yesterday. The huge aid request is being made as poverty and unemployment have exploded throughout Gaza and the West Bank, and the Palestinian health ...
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Ethiopia's disaster response agency has appealed for 7.6 million dollars (5.8 million euros) to help hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people in the country's southeastern Somali state.
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Flooding in India and Bangladesh has now left some 1.5 million people homeless, officials say.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE : Disaster relief crews battled to get emergency aid to 170,000 people affected by floods that killed more than 700 in Haiti, a Caribbean nation that ranks among the world&#39;s poorest.
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The U.N. will launch an appeal next week to raise as much as $20 million to help about 400,000 North Koreans affected by serious floods, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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The Red Cross warned Friday that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people and killed nearly 300.
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More than 250 people died in floods and mudslides in Haiti caused by the tropical storm Jeanne over the weekend, the United Nations said yesterday.
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The United Nations and the Red Cross appealed for 55 million dollars in emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of Pakistani flood victims, warning that an already dire situation could worsen.
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The global Red Cross issued an emergency  appeal on Sunday for immediate aid to hundreds of thousands of  people stricken by the tsunamis in South-East Asia.
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The United Nations has sentexperts to help with rescue and relief work in Indonesia, India and other Asian countries stricken by powerful earthquakes and tidal waves, a UN spokesman said on Sunday.
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Governments and individuals across the world were digging into their pockets on Thursday to help the millions of victims of the killer waves that struck southern Asia, as the UN said well over one billion dollars would be needed.
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An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Somalis need immediate relief aid in coastal towns devastated by waves whipped up by an earthquake in Asia, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations says it is trying to speed up the arrival of peacekeeping troops in Haiti to help with emergency relief in the wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which wreaked havoc in the Caribbean nation earlier this month.
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The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries hit by tsunami wave devastation on Sunday as governments and aid groups sent money and rescuers to answer desperate pleas for help.
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Up to 1.5 million women and children are at risk of &quot;acute malnutrition&quot; after Bangladesh&#39;s worst floods for six years, two UN agencies said yesterday.
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The chief of the Bangladesh army says the country is facing a catastrophe over rice supplies.