Pledges Grow, Hurdles Loom in Relief Effort
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Fresh infusions of aid gave yet more push to the global relief effort for Asia as it confronted logistical breakdowns.
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An international conference on Iraq  reconstruction began on Wednesday with a call from host Japan  for donors to honor their pledges to help rebuild the country,  a process that is being stalled by violence and insurgency.
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Efforts to help victims of the Asian tsunamis accelerate, as millions remain at risk from hunger and disease.
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The Bush administration more than doubled its financial commitment Tuesday to provide relief to nations suffering from the Indian Ocean tsunami, amid complaints that the vacationing President Bush has been insensitive to a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions.
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A multinational force of aid workers, military aircraft and ships descended on Asia as global tsunami relief pledges topped &#36;1.36 billion, but the hundreds of tons of aid created a logistical nightmare.
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Relief organizations from around the globe struggled Monday to deploy emergency supplies and personnel to south Asia, even as the list of communities scarred by the disaster continued to balloon.
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Hungry refugees along Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged coasts complained of slow aid delivery Saturday, while world pledges for the massive relief efforts shot up to about &#36;2 billion, a quarter of it from Japan, which boosted its contribution to make it the single largest country donor.
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Delegates at a UN aid conference will be asked to give firm commitments on helping Asian tsunami victims.
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The relief effort moves in fits and starts in 11 nations where infrastructure has been destroyed and disease looms. By Chris Brummitt / Associated Press.
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Aid agencies struggled on Tuesday to  cope with the scale of the Asian tsunami disaster which has  killed more than 38,000 people, with the International Red  Cross saying it may have to treble its appeal for funds.
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Aid agencies struggled on Tuesday to  cope with the enormity of the Asian tsunami disaster which has  killed more than 28,000, with the International Red Cross  saying it may have to treble its appeal for funds.
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International relief efforts escalated dramatically Tuesday to try to keep tens of thousands more people from dying of hunger and disease in the aftermath of Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake
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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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Despite campaigns to protect  civilians in war zones, progress is gradual and failure too  obvious in many places in the world, the U.N. emergency relief  coordinator said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON -- Humanitarian groups and governments across the globe launched the largest relief effort in history Tuesday in a desperate race to save thousands of tsunami survivors facing a new threat from deadly diseases.
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With the death toll still rising in 12 countries, the disaster will require one of the largest and most expensive relief efforts in history.
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Each year the West showers the Southeast Asian country with more aid, hoping it will clean up its act. But China isn't making it easy