U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "warned on Tuesday that failure to meet" Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by the 2015 deadline could result in "increased instability, violence, epidemic diseases and overpopulation," Agence France-Presse/Mail & Guardian reports (3/17). At a U.N. General Assembly meeting, Ban launched a report featuring "a new action plan aimed at getting governments, civil society actors, private businesses, philanthropy and the multilateral system to act 'efficiently, effectively and collectively'" in an effort to reach the targets, the U.N... 
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