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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Millions of people around  the Indian Ocean scrambled for food and clean water on  Thursday, with disease and hunger now the main threat stalking  survivors of the most devastating tsunami on record.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The massive cleanup after  last month's killer earthquake and tsunami paused on Friday as  survivors crowded mosques in Indonesia's ravaged Aceh province  for one of the most important Islamic festivals of the year.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia said on  Thursday restrictions on aid workers in Aceh were for their own  safety in a province troubled by a decades-old insurgency, and  voiced readiness to sit down with the rebels to seek a  cease-fire.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hungry and filthy,  Indonesians queued for water in their thousands on Tuesday as  aid deliveries to tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new snags.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Eight days on, hungry and  sick survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami waited for food and  medicine in growing desperation as a multinational aid  operation struggled to reach remote towns ravaged by the waves.
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The hungry scavenged for food and water and the wounded flooded hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on Wednesday, as a global relief effort staggered to help survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.
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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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US helicopters start dropping food and medical supplies into parts of quake-ravaged western Aceh.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Eight days after a giant  tsunami struck Asia, relief workers faced "absolute chaos" in  Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday as a $2 billion operation  to help disaster victims fought to get off the ground.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aid groups, foreign  armies and Indonesian officials have prevented disease and  starvation from engulfing tsunami-hit Aceh province, but closer  cooperation is needed to rebuild shattered livelihoods,  government and aid officials said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Millions of people around  the Indian Ocean scrambled for food and clean water on  Thursday, with the threat of disease and hunger now stalking  survivors of the most devastating tsunami on record.
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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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MINNEAPOLIS - Rina Sands spent Monday waiting to hear any news from her family living in the Aceh province on Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line  all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float miles out to sea.
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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.