World Leaders Hold Summit on Tsunami Aid
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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss aid efforts for Asia's tsunami-hit countries were  warned the death toll could double to about 300,000 unless  action was taken this week to prevent disease.  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had  sent emergency treatment to the region for diarrheal diseases  such as cholera and dysentery but while the aid was reaching  many places, access to safe drinking water remained inadequate.
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World leaders began putting $4 billion  in aid pledged for tsunami survivors to work on Thursday, the  urgency of their task conveyed in chilling warnings that more  carnage may be discovered and the death toll will climb.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world pumped aid into  the tsunami zone around south Asia on Friday in a frantic race  to save millions of survivors from dehydration and disease, and  stop a terrifying death count climbing further.
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Global leaders gathering in Jakarta to  discuss the tsunami that devastated countries around the Indian  Ocean will try to draw lessons from the disaster, including  looking at a future warning system.
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World leaders gathered at the United Nations on Tuesday to confront an agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq
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The US, Australia, Japan and India will form an international coalition to lead relief efforts after the Indian Ocean sea surges, the US president has said.
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World leaders met on Thursday to  discuss tsunami aid, the task's urgency underlined by a  chilling warning that the death toll could double to about  300,000 unless action was taken this week to prevent disease.
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LONDON  - Britain and Australia followed Japan and the United States in pledging dramatic increases in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia as the world community struggled to cope with its mushrooming fallout.
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World leaders step up plans for a united response to Asian tsunamis as the 124,000 confirmed dead are mourned.
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World leaders met on Thursday to discuss tsunami aid, the task's urgency underlined by a chilling warning that the death toll could double to about 300,000 unless action was taken this week to prevent disease.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An ambitious plan to set up an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is expected to dominate an upcoming gathering of leaders from stricken nations and world donors seeking to prevent a repeat of last week's carnage.
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International aid agencies say they hope an emergency summit of world leaders in Jakarta this week will offer direction to overcome logistical problems in the fight to help tsunami victims.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan  called on world leaders to honor their pledge of $3.0 billion  to help tsunami victims and rebuild the stricken Asian region.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  more closely to help victims of the worst natural disaster in  living memory and experts warned more carnage from the Indian  Ocean tsunami may be uncovered and the death toll will climb.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia on Saturday, as aid workers, troops  and grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of  rotting corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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Officials from 40 countries meet to discuss ways of reviving tourism in areas hit by the Asian tsunami.
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The leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa solidified their ties at a summit that highlighted the regional powers' role as spokesmen for the developing world.