UN urged to adopt asteroid impact treaty
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Failing to prepare is preparing to die AAAS Moves are afoot in the astronaut community to hustle the UN into adopting a treaty which would set a deflection mission in motion if Earth was threatened by a large asteroid impact.â¦
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The UN Security Council must threaten to use its &quot;stick&quot; as well as offer &quot;carrots&quot; to speed up settlement of the 21-year civil
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New proposals to defend Earth from cataclysmic impacts range from a tugboat-like spaceship to arrays of giant scopes that can better scan the skies, scientists said today.
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There have been a couple of movies recently depicting the impending collision of an asteroid with Earth. It might not be sci-fi anymore.
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Kofi Annan urges a negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, but the US calls for UN sanctions.
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United Nations experts called on governments around the world to build early-warning systems that can cut death tolls from natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami that has killed nearly 40,000.
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British charities urge the UN to adopt a new system to trace weapons exports to hold countries to account.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan  called on world leaders to honor their pledge of $3.0 billion  to help tsunami victims and rebuild the stricken Asian region.
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The United Nations today called on Rwanda to respect international law following its threat to strike against rebels based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), warning that the UN mission&#39;s mandate in the DRC includes preventing the peace
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The United Nations conference looked to be heading for a landmark agreement on a deadline for negotiations to reduce the worldâs greenhouse gases, officials said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament Wednesday to take action to stop the world from &quot;sleepwalking&quot; toward nuclear proliferation.
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Muhammad el-Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), sent a letter to the current UN Security Council President Sir Emyr Jones Parry last week expressing concern about the whereabouts of equipment from dismantled sites that
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The world will have to wait until 2010 before the United States of America bans the use of anti-personnel landmines. This is the message the military superpower sent to the delegates attending the first review
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A Washington-based policy group says the United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan must take responsibility for his staff&#39;s actions.
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The international community must pay to clean up Ivory Coast sites polluted by toxic waste, the UN says.
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We must all work together, says French prez Newly-wed French president Nicolas Sarkozy called yesterday for the world's space powers to work together in a global programme to explore Mars, New Scientist reports.â¦
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By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 18--As hundreds of scientists gathered in San Francisco last week to contemplate humanity's return to the moon, one of just 12 men to walk the surface there voiced an urgent plea:   Fix the darn gloves.