UN chief warns of 'megadisaster'
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The UN's disaster chief urges countries to divert small sums spent on emergency relief to tackling disaster prevention.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in south and  southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed  and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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UN chief Ban Ki-Moon warns against any further delay in determining the future of Kosovo.
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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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Tens of thousands of people have  probably died in Indonesia's western Sumatra and Aceh Province  or will perish before relief workers can reach them, a senior  U.N. official said Monday.
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Global warming is set to continue, and bring with it an increase in extreme weather such as hurricanes and droughts, scientists from the United Nations&#39; World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday.
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As pledges for the tsunami crisis neared &#36;4 billion, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday that he feared tens of thousands of people dying of starvation elsewhere in the world would be forgotten.
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The vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is under strain, the UN's human rights chief warns.
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Tens of thousands of people have probably died in Indonesia's western Sumatra and Aceh Province or will perish before relief workers can reach them, a senior U.N. official said Monday.
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World leaders warn that rapid urbanisation will become one of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century.
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN&#39;s peacekeeping chief warned of a surge in violence after the massacre of Congolese refugees in Burundi and called on all parties to step back from the brink of war.
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KOBE, Japan  - Earthquakes, floods and other  natural disasters could kill millions in the world's teeming  megacities and time is running out to prevent such a  catastrophe, the United Nations point man on emergency relief  said on Tuesday.
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President warned that talks on climate change must take place within a UN framework.
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30 December 2004 - Rushing back to United Nations Headquarters in New York from an interrupted holiday following the devastating Asian tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today convened a top level meeting of emergency officials and agency heads to
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UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (KOH&#39;-fee AN&#39;-nan) is calling for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot; to the tsunami that&#39;s killed at least 119 thousand people in south Asia.
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The head of the United Nations' AIDS program warned that the three countries could turn their small, localized epidemics into gigantic ones capable of disrupting the world's response to the disease.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says global warming poses at least as big a threat to the world as war.