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GENEVA: The United Nations said Thursday that most of the thousands of deaths in Libya's flood disaster could have been averted if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly.With better functioning coordination in the crisis-wracked country, the human toll could have been far smaller, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said. It warned that other conflict-hit countries faced similar, dangerous deficiencies to their early warning systems.If the system in Libya ad worked properly, "the emergency management forces would have been able to carry out the evacuation of...