Wrecked Roads Blocking Aid Distribution
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U.N. relief officials warned Monday that people affected by the south Asia earthquake and tsunami may be dying of hunger and disease because wrecked roads and bad communications are blocking the distribution of supplies.
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Airports closed, supermarkets were jammed, and plows ruled the roads.
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Relief trucks are heading towards the war-torn Iraqi city of Falluja - but they do not have permission to enter.
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Philippine officials sought international help yesterday to rebuild villages devastated by back-to-back storms that left more than 1100 people either dead or missing and devastated mostly poor northern agricultural regions.
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International aid starts to penetrate the areas worst affected by last Sunday's Indian Ocean wave.
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Hospital staff said ambulances had been unable to go out as the city shook to explosions. Later on. Saturday they collected two dead and seven wounded civilians, among them women and children.
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Rugged terrain, downed bridges, and the sheer volume of aid are slowing supply distribution.
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LONDON : Governments and humanitarian organisations around the world scrambled to offer aid and technical help Sunday after the devastating quake and tidal waves that killed thousands of people in southern Asia.
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Delays in delivering aid to survivors of Sunday&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe could cause thousands more deaths, aid agencies are warning.
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Katmandu, Nepal, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Maoist rebel blockade of the two major highways leading into Nepal&#39;s capital is affecting the flow of food and supplies, the BBC said Wednesday.
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The United Nations sent relief supplies to the besieged southern Lebanese town of Qana on Monday and to the coastal city of Tyre, officials said. However, U.N. officials added that convoys elsewhere in Lebanon are suspended because of the fragile security situation.
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Delays in getting aid to survivors of the Indian Ocean disaster could cost thousands more lives, aid agencies say.
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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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A spokeswoman for the UN&#39;s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs told journalists that the biggest obstacles to aid distribution were security and logistical problems caused by the destruction wrought by flooding in Haiti in the wake of
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Scenes of devastation have confronted aid teams as they arrived in Asia&#39;s isolated tsunami-hit areas, with entire towns destroyed and up to 5 million people in desperate need of food and water.
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Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean Friday, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports.
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Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean today, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports as the death toll continued its inexorable rise.