Russia, U.S. agree on Iran nuke resolution

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Among world leaders addressing the General Assembly on Friday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for "a new global financial order" to resolve the financial crisis currently roiling world markets.

"For we must build a new global financial order founded on transparency, not opacity, rewarding success not excess, responsibility, not impunity, and which is global not national," Brown said. "We must clearly state that the age of irresponsibility must be end."

Haiti's president implored leaders to commit to long-term solutions to help his nation after hurricanes and tropical storms killed hundreds of Haitians, saying a "paradigm of charity" would not end cycles of poverty and disaster.

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"Once this first wave of humanitarian compassion is exhausted, we will be left as always, truly alone, to face new catastrophes and see restarted, as if in a ritual, the same exercises of mobilization," President Rene Preval said.

At least 425 people were killed in the storms, and the U.N. has only received 3.4 percent of its $108 million appeal for relief after the storms, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.