Aid to Indian islands 'hijacked'
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The Red Cross accuses India of "hijacking" the aid effort for tsunami-hit Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Britain's charity watchdog said Saturday it was examining claims that several suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic jets were linked by their involvement with an aid group that raised money for victims of last year's devastating earthquake in Pakistan.
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Aid poured into the regions stricken by the Indian Ocean earthquake and the ensuing tsunamis on Thursday as governments and relief agencies mustered their forces to airlift supplies and personnel.
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The international community has pledged more than $250 million in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami that devastated coastlines from south Asia to east Africa, with planeloads of supplies leaving Britain ...
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Pirates hijacked a cargo ship delivering U.N. food aid to northeastern Somalia on Sunday &#151; at least the second time in recent years that a vessel contracted to the United Nations has been hijacked off the country's dangerous coast.
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Entire villages were wiped out in the tiny Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal. They lost more than 3000 residents in the disaster - 12 per cent of their population.
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International aid starts to penetrate the areas worst affected by last Sunday's Indian Ocean wave.
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In India, where more than 12,400 people are thought to have died in Sunday&#39;s disaster, rescuers were still unable today to reach some of the islands affected by the tidal waves.
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A week into one of  South Asia's most devastating disasters in history, an international campaign to help Indonesia recover has at last moved into gear. But from the airport on, the distribution system slapped together has proved spotty at best.
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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-tonairlift as part of a $2 billion  relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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Indian airports have been put on high alert following intelligence reports that Islamic terrorists could hijack a plane to seek the release of a man sentenced to death over a deadly 2001 attack on India's parliament, the Press Trust of India reported.
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The financial cost to India's mainland from December's tsunami is more than $1bn, the government says.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Unusually high tides  again swamped parts of India's tsunami-devastated Andaman  islands overnight and Indonesia told aid workers it could not  guarantee their safety in many parts of Aceh province.
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Medan (Indonesia), Dec. 31 : Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean today, but tonnes of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports.
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Rescuers in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago  believe half the population of one island is missing.
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Doubts are being expressed here that outsourcing medical transcription work to India may put British lives at risk due to potential mistakes in interpretation.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.