US marines in Philippines on storm relief mission, health fears ...
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INFANTA, Philippines : US marines have begun arriving in the Philippines to help the relief effort from storms that have left over 1,500 people dead or missing, a US military spokesman said.
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An advance team of 40 US Marines joined relief efforts in the Philippines on Wednesday after four deadly storms, as officials said funds were running short to help 650,000 survivors.
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GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines : Stunned residents picked their way through a wasteland of mud and rubble to leave storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the government said it has run out of money to pay for relief services.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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The U.S. military is delivering tens of thousands of pounds of relief supplies to southeast Asia, drawing on a worldwide network of ships, planes and other resources in its largest humanitarian mission in decades.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - The US military has stepped up activities in the pirate-infested waters off Somalia, going to the aid of hijacked cargo ships twice this week. American medics treated wounded North Korean sailors on one vessel, and the Navy was tracking another after destroying two pirate skiffs lashed to it.
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REAL, Philippines  - Weather improved in the  Philippines on Saturday after four heavy storms in two weeks,  helping rescuers reach thousands cut off by landslides and  floods, but supplies were short and fears of disease were  spreading.
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UTAPAO, Thailand -- Heavy air traffic over the tsunami-ravaged Indonesian city of Banda Aceh had delayed the late-night US military relief flight for hours, so the exhausted American crew of the C-17 Globemaster III, wearing coats and hats to ward off the unseasonable cold at the Thai naval base here, hunkered down in the tightly packed cargo plane for a ...
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In Quezon province, hit earlier this week by a typhoon, relatives were looking for loved ones when second storm hit. BY PAT ROQUE.
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The Philippines asks for foreign aid as it assesses the impact of storms that have left 1,000 dead or missing.
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One of the largest U.S. military relief operations in history helped speed the pace of aid to desperate victims of Asia's tsunami disaster Sunday, delivering critical supplies to haggard survivors in severe need of food and water.
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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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U.S. Marines joined an international effort to deliver aid and medical care to nearly 650,000 Indonesians displaced by a devastating earthquake, as hopes faded of finding more survivors.
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During the past two weeks heavy storms and typhoons have rocked the Philippines killing and injuring people. As a result at least 640 dead and about 400 people missing in the northern Philippines.
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REAL, PHILIPPINES - Rescue and recovery operations are underway in the Philippines after a series of devastating storms left more than 1,000 people dead or missing.
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Filipinos tried to flee flood-hit towns on Monday as relief supplies ran short and fears about disease mounted after last week&#39;s back-to-back typhoons left a trail of death and destruction.
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Another typhoon is set to hit the Philippines, which is already reeling under the impact of two back-to-back storms. More than 500 people died in the previous storms, and the latest one, Typhoon Nanmadol, packing