Food drops begin in Aceh
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The Indonesian province of Banda Aceh was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that sparked the devastating tsunami. Reuters.
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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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Hungry and filthy, Indonesians queued for water in their thousands on Tuesday as aid deliveries to the tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new snags.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Emergency relief in  Indonesia's tsunami-struck Aceh is heading for a new phase, now  that first contact has been established with most remote areas,  the chief of U.N. operations there said Sunday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Accusations flying  between the Indonesian military and rebels in tsunami-ravaged  Aceh province clouded prospects for recovery as aid workers on  Saturday began to switch their focus from relief to rebuilding.
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BANDA ACEH/LAMNO, Indonesia  - More than 400,000  Indonesians made homeless by the tsunami in Aceh province  remained at high risk of disease amid poor sanitation in  crowded refugee camps, aid agencies said on Monday.
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The Indonesian military officers were busy arresting looters who ran amuck in local markets Thursday to get food as relief supplies still didn&#39;t reach most ofrefugees in the tsunami-hit Aceh Province.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hungry and filthy,  Indonesians queued for water in their thousands on Tuesday as  aid deliveries to the tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new  snags.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Masked workers with mosquito-killing spray guns began moving through refugee camps yesterday in tsunami-battered Aceh Province, trying to prevent an outbreak of malaria. Indonesia, meanwhile, said it is pursuing a permanent truce with rebels in the area, the worst-hit by the disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Butchers, shop keepers  and restaurant owners in this devastated city opened for  business on Thursday, while a traditional marketplace bustled,  as tsunami survivors defiantly began to rebuild their lives.
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Signs of the start of a return to some form of normality emerge across Indonesia's tsunami-hit province of Aceh.
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US helicopters start dropping food and medical supplies into parts of quake-ravaged western Aceh.
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Hungry and filthy, thousands of Indonesians queued for water on Tuesday as aid deliveries to tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new snags and cases of disease and infection among survivors emerged.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Japanese teams fanned out  from their base in Aceh on Saturday to spray ditches and pools  of stagnant water as the country's relief operation in  Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged province reached full strength.
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UN relief workers have arrived in Indonesia&#39;s Aceh province to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned Sunday&#39;s killer tsunamis.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's tsunami-hit  Aceh province is rebounding so well from the disaster that  emergency relief work could wind up fairly quickly, a senior  international aid official said Monday.
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Hunger and grief stalked Indonesia&#39;s devastated Aceh province on Wednesday as officials tried to reach remote areas where tens of thousands were thought to have died from a massive earthquake and tsunami.