Georgia Seeks Disaster Declaration
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Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili appealed to world leaders Tuesday to convene an international conference on the conflict in breakaway South Ossetia, where daily exchanges of gunfire threaten to spark a war.
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Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages, and scorched the edges of Athens yesterday, with ashes raining onto the Acropolis. The death toll rose to at least 49 as the government declared a nationwide state of emergency.
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Despite plenty of warnings, critics say, Georgia never got around to developing a water management plan to handle a severe drought. Now that reservoirs already are shrinking and water supplies are threatened, lawmakers are scrambling to cope.
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ZAHARO, Greece, Aug. 25 -- Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages and scorched the edges of Athens on Saturday, with ashes raining onto the Acropolis. The death toll rose to at least 49 as the government declared a nationwide state of emergency.
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A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an unprecedented world response to what is an unprecedented wave disaster in the Indian Ocean.
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Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions Â like the one suspected in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant Thursday Â but the government has failed to do so.
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A new report urges humanitarian groups to maintain a local presence in disaster-prone areas.
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By Xiao Feng in Beijing and He Na in Changchun  The Ministry of Civil Affairs engaged a level-4 emergency response mechanism yesterday afternoon to deal with the damage inflicted by the heavy rains that have doused East China's Jiangxi Province.
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By Brian Mink, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Jun. 1--In response to the statewide Level 2 drought, pilot programs on water conservation are coming to six Georgia cities, and Macon is one of them.
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President Bush has declared a state of major disaster in the storm-ravaged southern US state of Florida, hit by four strong hurricanes since last month.
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia's U.S.-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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As the Asian tsunami focuses world attention on natural disasters, experts on Wednesday called for a global early warning system for all such catastrophes as soon as possible.
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People call for help after tidal waves destroyed their homes and left them stranded in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004. Massive sea waves, apparently triggered by oceanic earthquakes, crashed into
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Sri Lanka appealed for international help and declared a state of disaster after its eastern coast was struck by tsunami waves triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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New York (VNA) - Efforts to overcome the aftermath of the quake and subsequent tsunami in South and Southeast Asia need a close coordination of global emergency relief, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said at a press briefing in New York on