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Hundreds of people in Haiti have fled the waterlogged city of Gonaives for higher ground as a new storm, Hurricane Ike, threatened to compound a disaster caused by a previous storm.
07/09/2008
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A UN expert has advised people to cut their consumption of meat to help combat climate change.
07/09/2008
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Forty-five nuclear supplier states have approved a controversial US proposal to drop a ban on nuclear trade with India.
06/09/2008
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Nearly 500 people have died in the Haitian port city of Gonaives due to flooding caused by tropical storm Hanna, police have said, warning that more bodies could still be found.
06/09/2008
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Rescue workers in Haiti are being hampered in their efforts to get food and drinking water to thousands of people after tropical storm Hanna left many roads flooded and bridges collapsed.
05/09/2008
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A huge expanse of ancient ice shelf in Canada's northern Arctic has broken away in a dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists have said.
05/09/2008
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A government-appointed panel in China has blamed poor construction for the collapse of hundreds of schools during the devastating Sichuan earthquake in May.
05/09/2008
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Haiti's president has said his country is facing a "catastrophe" after being hit by three storms in as many weeks, leaving more than 60 people dead.
05/09/2008
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George Bush, the US president, has praised the official emergency response in Louisiana to Hurricane Gustav as "excellent'' but said that there is more work to be done.
04/09/2008
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Emergency warnings have been issued in the Bahamas and parts of the Turks and Caicos Islands, as Tropical Storm Hanna approaches, having left at least 21 dead in Haiti.
03/09/2008
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Seventeen people are feared to have died in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo after a small aircraft carrying United Nations employees and other aid workers went missing, the flight contractor said.
03/09/2008
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Officials in the US state of Louisiana say it is still too soon for residents of the city of New Orleans to return home, despite it being spared a direct hit by Hurricane Gustav.
03/09/2008
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The UN's senior aid official has called for greater international efforts to help millions of Ethiopians suffering from a severe drought.
02/09/2008
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Indian troops and aid workers are struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of stranded people across flood-devastated northern India, disaster management officials have said.
02/09/2008
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Hurricane Gustav has weakened to a category one storm after sweeping past the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana, US emergency officials say.
02/09/2008
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