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"By the middle of next year we have to turn the tide," Brown said. Delegates including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen also hoped to set targets for transferring security control of several provinces to the local police...
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Some were not as lucky: The United Nations announced Saturday that the body of Haiti mission chief Hedi Annabi was found in the rubble of the agency's headquarters, which collapsed in the earthquake. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the bodies of Annabi's...
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The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's magnitude-7.0 earthquake. The Pan American Health Organization estimated the toll at 50,000 to 100,000. A third of Haiti's 9 million people may be in need of aid. U.N. Secretary-General...
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"We need food, we need medical supplies, we need medicine, we need vitamins and we need painkillers. And we need it urgently." U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the World Food Program was providing high-energy biscuits and ready-to-eat meals to around...
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Clinton had just been appointed as the special envoy to Haiti by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and he was eager to draw international aid and investment to Haiti in new, more focused ways. Haiti's situation was, if anything, more dire than...
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the media on the situation in Haiti following an earthquake at United Nations Headquarters on January 13, 2010 in New York City. The violence in Afghanistan continues today.
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But the UN, like other humanitarian and religious groups, is still recovering from its own losses. At a special memorial service for the dozens of UN workers killed by the earthquake, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called it the “gravest single tragedy”...
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World Food Program (WFP) said it expected to boost operations from feeding 67,000 people on Sunday to 97,000 on Monday. But it needs 100 million prepared meals over the next 30 days, and it appealed for more government donations. "I know that aid cannot come...
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"We don't need military aid. What we need is food and shelter," one young man yelled at U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during his visit to the city Sunday. "We are dying," a woman told him. Looting spread to more parts of downtown Port-au-Prince on Monday...
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"The Copenhagen Accord may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this decision is an important beginning." Following an all-night session, negotiators from 193 countries reached consensus on supporting a deal brokered yesterday by President Obama...
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, listens to US actor Sean Penn during his brief visit to at a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors set up at the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Penn is doing aid work in Haiti through... Full Article at Centre Daily Times
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The quake killed an estimated 230,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless. Making his second visit to Haiti since the quake, Ban Ki-moon met President René Préval and discussed plans for a UN donors conference in New York on March 31 to fund Haiti's reconstruction... Full Article at CBC News
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Thousands of families came to the valley golf course in the days after the quake, following the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division and its food distributions onto the steep country club grounds. The group got a major boost Sunday in a visit by U.N. Secretary-General... Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune
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Ki-moon has offered assurances of the world's continued commitment to help Haiti. The United Nations secretary general stressed providing shelter was the top priority as he made his second visit to the stricken country. Hundreds of thousands of people remain... Full Article at BBC News
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JONATHAN M. KATZ Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in teeming... Full Article at WBAY-TV
