Summit approves tsunami warning
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World leaders promise an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system after being urged to honour cash pledges.
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Asian nations began two days of talks in Beijing on setting up an early warning system for tsunamis to prevent a repeat of last month's disaster, believed to have claimed more than 280,000 lives.
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The confirmed number of people killed in the massive undersea earthquake and resulting tsunamis that hit Indian Ocean shorelines has exceeded 80,000, and there are warnings it could rise to 100,000.
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A tsunami warning was issued for a group of islands south of Tokyo on Wednesday after a strong earthquake off Japan's eastern coast, and authorities urged local residents to evacuate to higher ground.
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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 without swift action to prevent disease.
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A tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean could be up and running by next year, a UN agency says.
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African nations neighbouring the Indian Ocean on Wednesday warned of a possible tsunami after an earthquake struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, officials said.
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Indonesia said Friday it would host an  international tsunami summit on Jan. 6, aimed at garnering more  emergency aid for the disaster hit Indian Ocean region and  discuss future reconstruction needs.
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The warning system worked perfectly. From sensors far offshore, Japanese meteorologists detected a tsunami headed toward the southern island of Ishigaki in March 2002 and quickly warned residents of the possible danger.
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A TSUNAMI warning that could have saved thousands of lives was issued but not acted upon more than an hour before giant waves hit Sri Lanka and southern India.
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Both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas are vulnerable to tsunamis like the one that devastated Indian Ocean shorelines in December and experts said on Tuesday they are scrambling to try to get warning system in place before politicians lose interest.
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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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NEW DELHI: The centre on Wednesday warned coastal area states and islands against another tsunami in the Indian ocean and asked them to keep continuous vigil.
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Thai and US officials have dispatched a ship carrying a tsunami warning device designed to protect millions of people around the Indian Ocean from a repeat of the catastrophe two years ago.
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Nations agree the UN should begin work on an tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean.
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Delegates at a conference in Thailand decided Saturday to create several regional tsunami warning centers around southern Asia that would protect the area from killer waves, a U.N. official said.
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A global warning system could have lowered the catastrophic death toll from the recent Asian tsunami,Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi said on Monday.