Choppers Reach Tsunami Villagers, Aid Hits $2 Bln
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Helicopters dropped aid  to clamoring crowds in tsunami-hit Indonesian villages on  Sunday but were unable to land, a week after the waves washed  away entire towns around the Indian Ocean.
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TORONTO (CP) - Two more planeloads of relief supplies were heading Tuesday from Canada to tsunami-stricken Indonesia to deliver more than 120,000 kilograms of desperately needed goods such as food, blankets and medical supplies to the survivors of the calamity that has claimed some 140,000 lives.
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Bambooflat island is only a 20 minute ferry ride from the capital of this Indian archipelago, yet no relief for the tsunami victims had arrived by Saturday, leaving some 2,000 families angry and desperate for humanitarian aid.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Navy helicopters,  unable to land in flooded, tsunami-ravaged Indonesian villages,  dropped aid on Sunday to desperate crowds clamoring for the  life-saving parcels.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages washed flat by the  tsunami a week ago, but no amount of aid could stop the loss of  life.
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Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted  aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the U.N.  refugee agency started a 400-ton airlift as part of a $2  billion relief operation to save millions struggling to  survive.
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BANGTAO, Thailand -- A Kuwaiti man, dressed in a white robe and turban, stepped out of his car in this devastated seaside village one day last week. He approached a young worker at an open-air volunteer center, saying he wanted to help the tsunami relief efforts, in part by giving a sizable donation.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  the injured and the homeless, many of them children, out of  some of the worst-hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province  on Monday, as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from  the disaster.
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Signs grew on Thursday that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian Ocean were beginning to recover from the tsunami which all but swept them off the map.
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The international community has pledged more than &#36;250 million in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami that devastated coastlines from south Asia to east Africa, with planeloads of supplies leaving Britain and France on Wednesday.
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A lack of coordination in the relief effort for survivors of a deadly tsunami in south India has led to an excess of supplies in some villages while others lack the most basic necessities.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Eight days after a giant  tsunami struck Asia, relief workers faced "absolute chaos" in  Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday as a $2 billion operation  to help disaster victims fought to get off the ground.
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Cargo planes touched down with promised aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week&#39;s quake-tsunami catastrophe.
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The U.S. military plans to double to about 90 the number of helicopters in the relief effort for Asia's tsunami victims and offered to send portable field hospitals to the region, officials said on Tuesday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Relief workers flew  helicopters and cajoled elephants to find and feed survivors  and shift the rubble of razed towns Monday, eight days after  tsunamis changed the map of South Asia.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - Heavy rains and fresh floods  disrupted aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages Sunday as the U.N.  refugee agency started a 400-tonairlift as part of a $2 billion  relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Navy helicopters,  unable to land in tsunami-ravaged Indonesian villages, dropped  aid Sunday to desperate crowds clamoring for the life-saving  parcels.