U.N. Adopts Resolution Urging Tsunami Aid
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The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Wednesday urging the international community to maintain its overwhelming support for tsunami victims beyond emergency relief so the dozen affected countries can rebuild the lives and homes of millions of survivors.
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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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The United States has received official requests for help from five of the 11 countries hit by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The State Department said so far the governments of Indonesia, Maldives, Somalia
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The number of survivors in need  of food aid after the Indian Ocean tsunami has soared to 1.8  million people stretching from Somalia to Thailand, and the  figure could rise further, the United Nations said on Sunday.
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The United Nations called on donors Tuesday to set a record by meeting in full its &#36;1.0 billion appeal for immediate aid to victims of Asia's tsunami, and pledged to be open about how the money was spent.
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KOBE, Japan  - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan  urged the world on Tuesday to learn from the killer Asian  tsunami, saying spending now could limit the loss of life and  damage from inevitable natural disasters.
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Sri Lanka appealed for international aid after declaring a state of disaster, as tsunamis unleashed by an undersea earthquake yesterday left more than 5,000 people dead and half-a-million homeless in the Indian Ocean island.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters stepped  up aid flights in tsunami-hit Indonesia Tuesday as U.N.  Secretary General Kofi Annan urged rich nations to spend more  on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits.
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World leaders step up plans for a united response to the Asian tsunami, as the rising numbers of dead are mourned.
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UNITED NATIONS -- In the three weeks since the Indian Ocean tsunami ripped up coastlines in Asia and Africa, the United Nations has credited more than 40 governments, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank with unprecedented pledges of assistance valued at nearly $4 billion.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations said that the biggest disaster relief operation ever staged would be needed for the Asian tsunami victims as medicines and other emergency supplies started pouring into the worst hit zones.
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The United Nations said that it had secured concrete aid of 717 million dollars toward its emergency relief appeal for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, and urged donor countries to speed up delivery of further aid promises.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as  the world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for victims in  South Asia, U.N. officials said on Saturday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan will visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as the  world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for tsunami-hit areas  in South Asia, U.N. officials said Saturday.
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United Nations appeals for disaster- and war-stricken countries in 2004 &#151; excluding special appeals for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami &#151; and the proportion of money received:
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The international community pledged more relief efforts for tsunami-devastated South and Southeast Asian countries Thursday as the death toll from the worst earthquake and tsunamis climbed to over 115,000.
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New York (VNA) - Efforts to overcome the aftermath of the quake and subsequent tsunami in South and Southeast Asia need a close coordination of global emergency relief, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said at a press briefing in New York on