U.N. panel takes U.S. to task over Katrina
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The United States must better protect poor people and African-Americans in natural disasters to avoid problems like those after Hurricane Katrina, a U.N. human rights panel said Friday.
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The tsunami that crashed into coastlines across southern Asia is likely to present the United Nations with its biggest and costliest relief effort, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said on Monday.
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The rules for using military force will be a key focus for an international panel working to update and reform the United Nations, a member of the panel said on Monday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell began a visit to Grenada on Wednesday to see the devastation left by Hurricane Ivan as islanders complained the United States could be doing more to help.
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UNITED NATIONS A high-level panel is calling for changes in the United Nations to better handle global threats in the 21st century.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a conference on reducing the risks.
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a sizable hurricane this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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NEW YORK, 19 September 2004 - With a successive series of hurricanes ravaging the Caribbean and the southeast United States, US lawmakers and environmentalists met this week to examine if these climate changes are due, in part, to greenhouse-gas
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ST. GEORGE&#39;S, Grenada -- Secretary of State Colin Powell began a visit to Grenada on Wednesday to see the devastation left by Hurricane Ivan as islanders complained the United States could be doing more to help.
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Hurricane Katrina has many legacies for the Bush White House, none pleasant. One is the guarantee that as soon as disaster strikes in the United States, President Bush's every move is closely scrutinized to gauge the speed and tone of his response to the suffering.
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The United States is better prepared  to deal with a major disaster like Hurricane Katrina, which  devastated the Gulf region in 2005, but still lacks a formal  structure for coordinating a national response, the head of the  U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
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After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many business leaders complained that despite contributions of $1.2 billion in relief or services, too many efforts to help the U.S. disaster response were thwarted by red tape.
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A top-level panel calls for the UN to be reformed  to allow more intervention in failed states,  the BBC learns.
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Hurricane Katrina has many legacies for the Bush White House, none pleasant. One is the guarantee that as soon as disaster strikes in the United States, President Bush's every move is closely scrutinized to gauge the speed and tone of his response.
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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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Unrest in Haiti may force the United Nations to divert ships carrying food for flood victims to the Dominican Republic, where the aid can be put on trucks, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Hurricane Katrina's damage was so vast that it's hard to estimate when the recovery will be completed, the federal official overseeing the effort said Thursday.