8 Days Later, Relief Effort Springs to Life in Indonesia
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The international relief effort in Indonesia finally sprang into action just before a major conference of donors in the Indonesian capital.
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International relief begins to arrive in Asia following the quake that has killed tens of thousands of people.
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Rescue teams are sent to Sumatra in Indonesia, where a strong earthquake has reduced buildings to rubble.
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U.S. Marines joined an international effort to deliver aid and medical care to nearly 650,000 Indonesians displaced by a devastating earthquake, as hopes faded of finding more survivors.
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The world has pledged about $220 million to help tsunami survivors, relying on lessons from past disasters to expedite relief. WASHINGTON - Aid workers in airplanes dropped thousands of packets of noodles to Indonesians stranded in cliff-top villages.
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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH  JAKARTA, Indonesia - A boat ride with emergency workers Tuesday revealed the hardships residents are suffering five days after torrential rains unleashed floodwaters that have killed 44 people and chased hundreds of thousands from their homes in this city of 12 million.
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Soon after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami Sunday that have claimed the lives of at least 80,000 people in northern Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono traveled to the stricken province of Aceh.
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Schools in the Indonesian province of Aceh have reopened for the first time since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the region one month ago.
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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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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages in an area washed  flat by the tsunami a week ago, but it grew clearer no amount  of aid could stop more loss of life throughout the disaster  zone.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The largest peace-time  relief effort in history zeroed in on the remote areas of  northern Sumatra that aid had yet to reach while doctors,  troops and relief workers raced to keep tsunami survivors  alive.
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BUKITTINGGI, Indonesia  - Hundreds of Indonesians tried to pick up the pieces of their lives by starting to rebuild their quake-flattened homes on Thursday as aid poured in for thousands camping out in tents or open fields.
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Floods which have inundated at least three Indonesian provinces including the capital Jakarta for more than a week have claimed 85 lives, according to officials.
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Thousands of Indonesians were cleaning  up mud and debris from their flood-damaged homes on Saturday  after rains eased and waters that forced many into cramped  emergency shelters begin to subside.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Substantial help finally  began reaching refugees in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province  on Saturday, and the U.S. military arrived in force to speed  the flow of critically needed aid.
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Aid workers reaching remote areas of Indonesia's Aceh province discover the extent of the tsunami's devastation.