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Around one million people have been evacuated from their homes and at least 16 people were killed as a cyclone hits the coastal districts of Bangladesh
Officials also advised nearly 33,000 Rohingya refugees, moved from camps to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, to stay indoors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. They can talk but they don't act," she said on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
US climate envoy John Kerry will travel to the UAE, India and Bangladesh ahead of next month's climate summit hosted by Washington.
In-depth: Amid a violent crackdown in the Chin and Rakhine states by Myanmar's military junta and armed gangs plaguing camps in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees find themselves caught in an increasingly desperate situation.
Weather-related disasters have surged over the past 50 years, but death tolls reduced due to early warning systems, according to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The impact of climate change 'disproportionally' affected poor farming, fishing and other communities mainly relying on the extraction of natural resources for their livelihoods, a UN report said.
In-depth: Proponents of Hindu nationalist ideology define India as a country for Hindus. They view non-Hindu groups - especially Muslims and Christians - as outsiders.
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In-depth: AQ Khan, one of the founders of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, has died at the age of 85. Revered in his home country, if abhorred by much of the international community, he leaves behind a legacy that's synonymous with the Pakistani psyche.