UN weather agency pledges help to poor countries
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The UN weather agency closed out its congress here on Friday pledging to help poor countries cope with natural disasters through better forecasting and alert systems.
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International organisation and countries are poring in relief and over $500 million have already been pledged. This includes $250 million for tsunami relief offered by the World Bank on Thursday.
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Officials in the Philippines have called for international aid to help more than half a million people hit by devastating back-to-back storms.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  together more closely to help victims of one of the worst  natural disasters in living memory as U.N. Secretary General  Kofi Annan declared they were in a "race against time."
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Many of the world's poorest countries lamented at a U.N. ministerial meeting Monday that some of the least developed nations are experiencing increases in extreme poverty.
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The Scottish Executive pledges a further Â£9m to help some of the world's poorest people, it is announced.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Torrential rain and a  crashed plane blocking a key airport hampered relief efforts  Tuesday, but the United Nations hailed what it called  extraordinary progress in getting aid to Asia's tsunami  victims.
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The United Nations appealed to  the world's prosperous nations on Thursday for $3.9 billion in  donations next year to address humanitarian emergencies  touching 27 million people in 29 countries, with most of the  money targeted at Africa.
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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 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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The United Nations said on Monday it would take urgent measures to help victims of deadly floods in central Mozambique that have driven thousands from their homes.
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DURBAN, South Africa  - Developing countries have pledged to band together to force the West to help tackle their problems, ranging from poverty to reform of the United Nations.
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The United Nations on Friday  asked wealthy nations to donate an extra $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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The World Bank has called upon the governments of poor countries to work for improving their investment climates as done by India and China, saying it was central to economic growth and poverty reduction.
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The UN food agency says it has received less than 20% of the funds it asked for flood victims in Bangladesh.
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The United Nations calls for donors to give generously to help Nicaragua recover after Hurricane Felix.
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Rich nations must do far more to help poor countries cope with climate change, an influential report will say.