Plea for Aid as Winter Grips Tajikistan
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United Nations officials issued an urgent plea for some $25 million in emergency aid to the Central Asian country hardest hit by an unusually harsh winter.
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Frigid temperatures contributed to four deaths Sunday, pushing the toll from a devastating ice and snow storm to 19 as hundreds of thousands waited another day for their electricity to be restored.
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The World Food Programme has launched an urgent appeal for funds to feed North Korea, saying more than one third of its children are badly malnourished.
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover, the UN warns.
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Sudan and the UN launch an appeal to raise $20m to help more than 400,000 people hit by recent flooding.
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BBC Moscow correspondent James Rodgers reports on soldiers' woes and the capital's snow-clearing efforts.
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Small island states pleaded for more aid as they face a devastating hurricane season and warned that the threat of climate change was as urgent as the fight against terrorism and should get the same attention.
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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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With electricity reserves depleted, officials in impoverished Tajikistan Â where residents are enduring one of the coldest winters in 25 years Â said Tuesday they would be forced to cut power to much of the country.
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At least 1.8 million people living in makeshift shelters and tents are at risk from the Himalayan winter a year after an earthquake ravaged northern Pakistan, the international aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday.
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Relief teams in Lebanon hope many of the heavily damaged buildings can be salvaged and are requesting the United Nations send more supplies for temporary repairs and to restore electricity and water services, officials said Monday.
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China struggled on Sunday with  transport havoc and threats to energy and food supplies caused  by snows and icy cold, with forecasters warning of more brutal  weather across eastern and central areas in coming days.
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ULYANOVSK, Russia - Make a baby, win a car. Do not be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region today as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia's demographic crisis.
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With no heating and just three hours of electricity a day, Malokhat Atayeva is struggling to survive the coldest winter in three decades in her small town in western Tajikistan.
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China struggled on Sunday with transport havoc and threats to energy and food supplies caused by snows and freezing cold, with forecasters warning of more harsh weather across eastern and central areas in coming days.
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A United Nations relief agency has appealed for 15 million dollars in emergency aid for North Korean children, saying last year's floods increased their vulnerability.
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Officials yesterday sought international help to rebuild villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 566 persons dead and 546 missing in mostly poor northern agricultural regions.