Maldives appeals for flooding aid
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The High Commissioner of the Maldives in London appeals for aid to the stricken islands after severe flooding.
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Officials yesterday sought international help to rebuild villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 566 persons dead and 546 missing in mostly poor northern agricultural regions.
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Torrential rains hit the region this week and floods submerged more than 10,000 houses and brought traffic to a standstill. A disaster management official from the coastal province of Quang Ngai says a red
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The Philippines asks for foreign aid as it assesses the impact of storms that have left 1,000 dead or missing.
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The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries hit by tsunami wave devastation on Sunday as governments and aid groups sent money and rescuers to answer desperate pleas for help.
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Worst flooding for a decade leaves up to 1.5 million in need of emergency help.
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The UN urges the international community to come up with more aid for flood victims in Bangladesh.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.
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U.S. officials held a conference call Sunday to discuss ways to aid the south Asian countries inundated by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A White House statement said aid had begun flowing to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
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BEIRA, Mozambique  - Heavy rains from a cyclone sparked more flooding in Mozambique on Sunday, worsening a humanitarian crisis that has already killed 45 people and forced 140,000 from their homes.
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Victims of the spring&#39;s severe storms, which brought flooding to the state, have until Monday evening to apply for disaster assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Helicopters dropped urgently needed supplies Thursday in coastal areas where some 800,000 people were stranded by monsoon-spawned flooding, officials said.
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A Briton died of a heart attack when the Maldives was hit by major tidal waves triggered by a massive earthquake and one or two were missing in the region, a tourism official said.
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The global Red Cross issued an emergency  appeal on Sunday for immediate aid to hundreds of thousands of  people stricken by the tsunamis in South-East Asia.
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Ten people are reported to have died in the Maldives after flooding triggered by an earthquake struck south and east Asia, causing widespread devastation.
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Pope John Paul II appealed for swift international aid to help thousands of victims from Sundays massive tidal waves that swamped coastal areas across southern Asia _ triggered by the worlds most powerful ...
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The Maldives will need massive amounts of aid to recover from last December's tsunami, which left damages in the Indian Ocean nation amounting to 62 percent of its gross domestic product, the World Bank said.