France Doubles Aid for Asian Disaster
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One-upping the United States, France nearly doubled its aid pledge for tsunami victims to &#36;57 million Thursday and briefly claimed the role as leading donor nation, following barbs from Washington about French generosity.
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French President Jacques Chirac on Monday paid solemn tribute to the more than 144,000 people killed in last week's Asian tsunami disaster, charging his government with helping to expedite aid to the region.
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Officials in the Philippines have called for international aid to help more than half a million people hit by devastating back-to-back storms.
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The United States dispatched disaster specialists yesterday and prepared an initial $15 million (euro11 million) aid package to the Asian countries hit by a massive earthquake and tsunamis.
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The Government offered help to Asian nations battered by deadly tidal waves triggered by a powerful earthquake, as it scrambled to take stock of the disaster and help British tourists.
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France mobilized Friday to send urgent aid to Lebanon, the Red Cross managed to get relief supplies to the south &#151; and Israel agreed to allow a safe corridor crucial to ensuring that food and medicine reaches those in need.
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Australia and New Zealand joined forces to airlift emergency aid to victims of the monster earthquake and tidal waves which devastated coastal areas of south and southeast Asia over the weekend.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CP) - As the death toll from Asia&#39;s earthquake-tsunami catastrophe soared past 120,000, nations donated $600 million Cdn toward the world&#39;s largest relief effort, but UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said even more would be needed.
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PRAGUE/GENEVA- The Czech Republic will release another half a million dollars in immediate aid of southeast Asia, hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on December 26, Industry and Trade Minister Milan ...
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The United States further increased its aid commitment to South and East Asian countries affected by Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunami disaster to $35 million.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has made a "substantial" donation to aid efforts for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia, royal officials said.
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Switzerland is to give $2 million (SFr2.29 million) to help rebuild a village in Thailand which was devastated by last week's tidal waves.
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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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MORE than 11,800 people have been killed and tens of thousands left homeless after a massive undersea earthquake triggered giant tsunami waves across 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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An unprecedented global aid operation gathered steam to save survivors of Asia's tsunamis as signs crept up of disease in the overflowing morgues after the disaster that claimed more than 127,000 lives.
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LONDON  - Britain and Australia followed Japan and the United States in pledging dramatic increases in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia as the world community struggled to cope with its mushrooming fallout.