First US cargo plane arrives in Sumatra; toll rises to 120,000
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As the first US military cargo plane arrived with supplies for this devastated town on Friday, the country&#39;s health minister warned that Indonesia&#39;s death toll alone could reach 100,000, as the scope of the devastation around Banda Aceh became apparent.
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Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc.   AAWW.O on Tuesday said it ordered 12 of Boeing Co.'s BA.N   new 747-8 freighters, worth about $3.4 billion at list prices,   making it the first North American air cargo carrier to order   Boeing's biggest commercial plane.
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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's quake-tsunami catastrophe. The first Indonesian military teams reached the devastated west coast of Sumatra island, finding thousands of bodies and hiking southern Asia's death toll to more than 67,000.
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US troops and relief workers airdropped more food to the millions of people left homeless and hungry from Asia's tsunami disaster, as the death toll from the tragedy crept towards 150,000.
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Cargo planes carrying water purifiers, doctors and medicine touched down yesterday as thousands of bodies were found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, bringing the death
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The death toll from the Indian Ocean disaster rose dramatically to 125,000 after Indonesia said almost 80,000 had died in that country alone.
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As the first US military cargo plane arrived with supplies for devastated Banda Aceh, Indonesianâs health minister warned that the death toll could reach 100,000 and that water-borne disease could become a threat.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A massive US military relief operation picked up steam yesterday, with helicopters dropping off cartons of food aid in Sumatra and warships with 2,200 Marines arriving in the Malacca Straits to ferry supplies to the tsunami-battered Indonesian island.
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Relief workers in northern Sumatra have begun collecting and burying thousands of anonymous corpses - a task that has spiked the death toll from Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis to more than 119,000.
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U.S. aid helicopters stepped up missions on Tuesday to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province, expanding help to millions affected by the giant wave that killed 175,000 around the Indian Ocean.
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Jakarta - At least 12 people were killed and about 50 injured on Tuesday when a plane skidded off a rain-slicked runway after landing in Indonesia&#39;s central Java province, hospital staff and reports said.
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Reports on the number of dead are varying widely after a jet with 140 people on board burst into flames upon landing at an airport in Indonesia today. Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi put the confirmed dead at 21.  Another official said 48 bodies were recovered from the scene and that one person had died in a hospital.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters stepped  up aid flights in tsunami-hit Indonesia Tuesday as U.N.  Secretary General Kofi Annan urged rich nations to spend more  on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits.
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The toll from a severe earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra island last week has risen to 17 dead and 88 injured, while more than 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, officials said on Saturday.
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The confirmed death toll in Asia, after Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake and tsunamis, has surged past 125,000. Indonesia which bore the brunt of the catastrophe, has updated its toll to almost 80,000 with entire coastal villages washed away.
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ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid yesterday, as the US military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War, ferrying food and other emergency relief to survivors across the disaster zone.
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A US aircraft carrier group was headed for Indonesia&#39;s tsunami-stricken Aceh province on Thursday to help with relief operations in the world&#39;s most populous Muslim country, officials said.