Destruction, Rain Hamper Asia Tsunami Aid Effort
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A week after a tsunami  devastated Indian Ocean shores, aid workers and troops battled  desperate conditions and the aftermath of torrential rain to  bury rotting bodies and deliver relief to survivors.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world pumped aid into  the tsunami zone around south Asia on Friday in a frantic race  to save millions of survivors from dehydration and disease, and  stop a terrifying death count climbing further.
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BANGKOK -- Aid agencies struggled yesterday to cope with a vast humanitarian catastrophe after the Asian tsunami disaster left enormous devastation across a broad swath of nations.
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Aid trucks loaded with food, medicines  and body bags rolled into tsunami-hit areas across Asia and  aircraft dropped supplies to cut-off villages as a huge relief  operation finally swung into gear Friday.
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Buddhist monks handed out rice and  curry parcels to grieving tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka and  aircraft dropped food to isolated Indonesian towns on Wednesday  as Asia's disaster relief operation struggled to kick in.
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International aid organizations rushed yesterday to respond to the tsunami that left thousands dead in Asia, hindered by telephone lines knocked out by the floodwaters or clogged with calls.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A helicopter crash and a  powerful tremor in Indonesia on Monday briefly hindered aid  operations for tsunami victims.
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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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Aid workers cleared landing strips in  Asia's flooded tsunami-hit regions to start flying food, clean  water and doctors to hungry and injured survivors, but the  global relief operation continued to struggle on Tuesday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rescue workers raced to  get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on Tuesday,  and struggled to clear airport runways to fly aid into regions  where giant waves washed roads away as well as people.
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The world's biggest-ever aid operation got into gear to help Asian countries stricken by tsunamis that smashed coastal towns leaving misery and the risk of disease in their wake.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - Heavy rains and fresh floods  disrupted aid deliveries to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on  Sunday, just as a global $2 billion relief operation started to  kick in a week after walls of water left millions struggling to  survive.
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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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International aid teams landed in Asia's tsunami-devastated villages on Wednesday in a desperate race to prevent the spread of diseases in one of the biggest catastrophe relief operations in history.
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Aid agencies around the world rushed  staff, equipment and money to southern Asia where hundreds of  thousands of people were left homeless after tsunamis pummeled  coastal communities on Sunday.
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Relief efforts are under way around the northern rim of the Indian Ocean, where tsunamis devastated low-lying villages and towns Sunday, killing thousands.