UN summit to tackle world hunger
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World leaders prepare to meet at the UN in New York to discuss ways of alleviating hunger and poverty.
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The United Nations' world food body outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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Political leaders and global business chiefs will meet in Geneva next month to step up efforts for progress on climate change, human rights and the fight against corruption, the United Nations said on Monday.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find &#36;50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.
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BERLIN, May 30 (IPS) - In the preparations for this year's summit of  the Group of Eight most industrialised countries, to take place  Jun. 6-8 in the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, Germany,  aid for Africa has topped the agenda. But the farm subsidy factor  is likely to be avoided in the debate.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to tell world leaders on Tuesday to respect human  life, whether civilians or prisoners of war in Iraq, villagers  in Sudan or children in northern Uganda or Russia.
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30 December 2004 - With the United Nations health agency warning that up to 5 million people in Southeast Asia are without basic services after Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today chaired a top level emergency meeting to
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The United Nations' world food body  outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest  nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher  program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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World leaders gather at U.N. headquarters on Monday to inject new life into a global campaign to eradicate hunger, which conference organizer Brazil denounces as "the worst of all weapons of mass destruction."
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The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations growing to more than 800 million people and rising, according to a U.N. report Wednesday.
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World leaders gathering at the United Nations confront a depressing global agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq, and a growing gap between the richest and poorest inhabitants of planet Earth.
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MEXICO CITY -- International experts kicked off the first worldwide health research summit Tuesday in a desperate bid to focus attention on the so-called forgotten diseases -- illnesses of the poor that account for half the world&#39;s deaths.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United Nations' food relief agency is gearing up for a "critical stage" in feeding refugees in western Sudan as more people flee ethnic violence there and the rainy season peaks, UN officials said Wednesday.
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The UN's Kofi Annan is to meet Iran's president and supreme leader for talks likely to cover the nuclear issue.
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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit meeting next week for flu vaccine-makers and nations to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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Thousands are going hungry in the Andean mountain region of southern Peru, says the World Food Programme.
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Pope Benedict XVI is to meet world religious leaders who are holding a peace summit in Naples.