High-level panel poised to present report on global threats to ...
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30 November 2004 - A high-level panel appointed last year by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is poised to officially release its report on threats to international peace and security in the twenty-first century and recommendations on how to
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The United Nations atomic watchdog agency was set to hear a report on Iran Wednesday that could bring Tehran one step closer to a third round of UN sanctions against its nuclear programme.
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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Amid warnings of new infectious disease outbreaks, delegates to the World Health Organization&#39;s regional conference were discussing Tuesday ways to improve strategies for dealing with SARS, avian influenza and threats to food safety
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An international panel of experts urged Washington on Monday to join other nations in a drive to avert the "ecological time bomb" of global warming.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami has pushed disaster early warning to the top of the agenda at a meeting of the world's small islands, potentially crowding out concerns about climate change and trade, some delegates say.
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WASHINGTON _ The perils of climate change are attracting much attention these days, with a popular award-winning movie on the subject, a United Nations panel emphasizing the dangers and widespread agreement among scientists that global warming presents a potentially catastrophic threat.
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A U.N. report delivers the most comprehensive picture yet on global warming  -  and says that human activity is "very likely" the culprit
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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 24 (IPS) - The high-profile Davos meeting of the international  political, business, economic and  academic elite began Wednesday  on the sombre note that globalisation is facing major  threats  due to worsening climate change, growing income disparities,  escalating barriers to  movement of people, and global political  and economic instability.
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A high-level panel on reforming  the United Nations has proposed two models for enlarging the  U.N. Security Council, according to a major report obtained by  Reuters on Monday.
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A high-level panel on reforming the United Nations has proposed two models for enlarging the U.N. Security Council, according to a major report obtained by Reuters on Monday.
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The world's governments must dramatically cut emissions of heat-trapping gases or learn to live with more droughts, heat waves, powerful rainstorms, and rising sea levels that will affect millions, leading climate scientists said after the release of a landmark global warming report yesterday.
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A high-level UN panel yesterday laid out criteria for determining when the use of force is legitimate in the face of international threats.
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Averting the worst impacts of a warming world is the theme of a high-level UK scientific conference starting on 1 February.
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The world's largest general scientific society on Sunday joined the concern over global climate change, calling it a "growing threat to society."
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Science & environment: In pictures:  A UN report has warned of the dangers posed by global warming.
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Officials from 113 countries agreed Thursday that a much-awaited international report will say that global warming was "very likely" caused by human activity, delegates to a climate change conference said. Dozens of scientists and bureaucrats are editing the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in closed-door meetings in Paris. Their report, which must be unanimously approved, is to be released Friday.