In recent years, we have witnessed countless tragedies caused by terrorist acts.

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During the famines caused by the Great Leap Forward, wife selling occurred in many of the poorer areas.

The psychological, environmental and socio economic problems it created will have long term effects.

It will take more than words and apologies, to heal the scars caused by the actions of some priests towards the victims.

The effects of the tsunami will no doubt leave a lasting mark on Somalia for some time to come.

The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone, cannot be imagined. They certainly cannot be described.

The last 12 months have been particularly devastating in terms of the human and material loss caused by scores of such disasters.

Despite the unprecedented setback caused by the tsunami, we are resolute in our quest of the Millennium Development Goals.

Moreover, it is unclear whether the negative impact those events have had on our economies will vanish automatically once the phenomena that have created them disappear.

Third, the United States had not yet taken steps to eliminate the environmental degradation a serious public health hazard caused by military activity on the island of Vieques.

Add in the increased vulnerability of very large numbers of people in the developing world, caused by civil wars, ethnic conflicts, kleptocratic governments, disease ... you name it, you know it.

On 5 June, Mexico sent 19 tons of food and medicine in response to the crisis caused by the heavy rains that devastated Haitian communities along the border with the Dominican Republic.

We must maintain the political will to support the affected countries and their peoples, particularly the poor, so that they can fully recover from the traumatic effects of the disaster and rebuild their lives.

Material damage caused by the world war and the following Soviet era significantly slowed Estonia's economic growth, resulting in a wide wealth gap in comparison with neighbouring Finland and Sweden.

We Uruguayans regained democracy in 1985, and the current Government, which took office exactly 200 days ago, is working hard to heal the wounds dictatorship caused through human rights violations.

Immediately after learning of the losses and damage caused by the tsunami, the Vietnamese Government, in a gesture of sincere sympathy and solidarity, decided to donate approximately half a million dollars to help the victims in the most seriously affected countries.

May that expression of worldwide solidarity and generosity help to limit the impact of the enormous human suffering caused by the disaster and to address the considerable needs for emergency assistance and long term recovery aid.

Mr. Sardenberg (Brazil) (spoke in Spanish) Brazil welcomes the convening of this meeting of the General Assembly on the strengthening of disaster relief assistance and rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention activities following the disaster caused by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

On 11 and 12 October, the Government of Mexico sent to Haiti two Hercules C 130 aeroplanes of the Mexican air force with 25 tons of aid to alleviate the damage caused by Tropical Storm Jeanne.

Furthermore, to address the humanitarian crisis in Africa and in other regions caused by infectious diseases, Japan has announced 500 million in financial assistance in the coming years for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but Medea Hypothesis author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.

3. Welcomes the support of the Caribbean Community in the construction of housing in the safe zone to alleviate a shortage caused by the environmental and human crisis of the eruption of the Montsoufriere volcano, as well as the material and financial support from the international community to help alleviate the suffering caused by the crisis

The earthquake of 26 December 2004 took place precisely on the first anniversary of an earthquake that struck the city of Bam in my country and therefore brought back the painful memory of the great human losses caused by that catastrophe.

3. Welcomes the support of the Caribbean Community in the construction of housing in the safe zone to alleviate a shortage caused by the environmental and human crisis of the eruptions of the Montsoufriere volcano, as well as the material and financial support of the international community to help alleviate the suffering caused by the crisis

3. Welcomes the support of the Caribbean Community in the construction of housing in the safe zone to alleviate a shortage caused by the environmental and human crisis of the eruption of the Montsoufriere volcano, as well as the material and financial support from the international community to help alleviate the suffering caused by the crisis

When someone announces that the nature nurture debate has been settled because there is evidence that a given percentage of our political opinions are genetically inherited, but they don't explain how genes cause opinions, they've settled nothing. They are saying that our opinions are caused by wizards, and presumably so are their own.

What surprised me next was that this little novella by an obscure Libyan author seems to have raised quite a storm in the blogosphere on the one hand and in some Libyan regions on the other even warranting a mention in Aljazeera which elicited six pages of comments. Let's give the word to the Libyan bloggers.

Whether this reflects an expansion of the natural area of these species that now enter the Mediterranean through the Gibraltar strait, because of a warming trend of the water caused by global warming or an extension of the maritime traffic or is simply the result of a more intense scientific investigation, is still an open question.