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COP27
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Climate change
10/9/2022 7:17:57 PM
Heavy seasonal rains again pounded much of Thailand on Sunday, causing continued widespread flooding, particularly in the northeast and central regions.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/6/2022 3:30:40 PM
Pakistan's foreign minister on Thursday said that about 50% of the water has receded in the country's worst-hit southern Sindh province, raising hopes that farmers will be able to sow wheat in a first step toward returning to a normal life.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/6/2022 3:02:45 PM
All the crops had died and the farmed fish had escaped their ponds. The only road to the village was flooded and the water just kept getting higher, says Asiyah, 38, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/4/2022 4:17:14 PM
Alarmed by a surge in disease, the United Nations is asking for five times' more international aid after deadly floods in Pakistan left millions of survivors homeless and at rising risk of waterborne diseases and other ailments.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/3/2022 10:40:42 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the world to act at the upcoming pre-COP27 climate talks in DR Congo against what he called "a life-or-death struggle for our own safety today and our survival tomorrow."
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World
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Region
9/30/2022 2:52:06 PM
The United Nations will seek $800 million more in aid from the international community to respond to the soaring life-saving needs of Pakistani flood survivors, a UN official said Friday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/29/2022 10:59:52 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi held on Thursday a phone call with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to offer condolences to victims of his country's devastating floods, the Egyptian presidency announced.
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World
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International
9/29/2022 2:19:08 PM
Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain across the peninsula on Thursday.
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COP27
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Climate change
9/27/2022 10:45:16 AM
Pakistan's new prime minister stepped onto the U.N. podium and faced world leaders, ready to spin a tale of floods and climate change and more than 33 million people at risk. Shahbaz Sharif began: ``As I stand here today to tell the story of my country ...''
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World
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International
9/26/2022 5:41:37 PM
Like every year, Arz Mohammed had planted his little patch of land in southern Pakistan with cotton. The crop would earn him enough so that, as he puts it, his family of five wouldn’t be reduced to begging. Then came the deluge.
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COP27
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Climate change
9/26/2022 1:55:23 PM
Pakistan's catastrophic floods have led to renewed calls for rich polluting nations, which grew their economies through heavy use of fossil fuels, to compensate developing countries for the devastating impacts caused by the climate crisis.
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World
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International
9/25/2022 2:15:06 PM
The World Bank said it will provide about $2 billion in aid to Pakistan, ravaged by floods that have killed more than 1,600 people this year, the largest pledge of assistance so far.
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World
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International
9/21/2022 1:23:22 PM
Devastating floods in Pakistan's worst-hit province have killed 10 more people in the past day, including four children, officials said Wednesday as the U.N. children's agency renewed its appeal for $39 million to help the most vulnerable flood victims.
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World
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International
9/19/2022 2:27:35 PM
Hurricane Fiona bore down on the Dominican Republic Monday after knocking out the power grid and unleashing floods and landslides in Puerto Rico, where the governor said the damage was ``catastrophic.''
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World
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International
9/17/2022 7:55:56 PM
The World Health Organization raised the alarm Saturday about a ``second disaster`` in the wake of the deadly floods in Pakistan this summer, as doctors and medical workers on the ground race to battle outbreaks of waterborne and other diseases.
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World
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Region
9/15/2022 5:22:14 PM
Flooding across Sudan has killed at least 20 people over the past week, Sudanese officials announced Thursday, raising the official death-toll from the floods since the rainy season began in May to 134.
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World
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International
9/14/2022 7:46:25 PM
"My message to world leaders gathering here is clear: Lower the temperature, now. Don't flood the world today; don't drown it tomorrow," he said on Wednesday, denouncing "decades of intransigence by big emitters," particularly Group of 20 members.
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World
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International
9/13/2022 5:40:42 PM
Humanity is "going in the wrong direction" on climate change due to its addiction to fossil fuels, the UN said Tuesday in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are higher than before the pandemic.
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World
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Region
9/12/2022 5:37:35 PM
Pakistan is grappling with food shortages after deadly floods left the impoverished country's agriculture belt underwater, the prime minister told the Turkish president by phone, as authorities scaled up efforts Monday to deliver food, tents and other items.
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World
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International
9/11/2022 2:58:42 PM
Two more U.S. military planes loaded with tons of aid for Pakistanis affected by flooding from deadly monsoon rains landed Sunday in southern Sindh province, one of the worst-affected regions in the impoverished country.
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