Sri Lanka: Aid Misses Most Tsunami Victims
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Bureaucratic bungling has blocked food, medicine and other necessities from reaching 70 percent of the 1 million Sri Lankans left destitute by the Asian tsunami disaster, a government official said Wednesday, as hungry and homeless survivors protested the lack of help.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000  on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease.
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At last 150 people were killed after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Andaman islands in the Indian Ocean struck Sri Lanka on Sunday, district officials said.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka In Sri Lanka, the country hardest hit by yesterday&#39;s deadly waves, the bodies of the dead are still being recovered from all across the island nation.
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Sri Lanka faces a $1.3bn (Â£691m)  bill in 2005 for reconstruction after the tsunami which killed more than 30,000 of its people, its central bank says.
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Leftists give tsunami relief in Sri Lanka, filling a vacuum left by the government.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has banned the adoption of children orphaned by a deadly tsunami until further notice after receiving unconfirmed reports that some children were snatched in the wake of the disaster, government officials said yesterday.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday it had made available up to &#36;325 million in emergency lending for tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives. The Manila-based lending institution said about &#36;175 million could be diverted from existing projects in the three countries, while up to &#36;150 million in new low-cost loans could be drawn.
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Donor countries are failing to provide  enough funds for temporary housing and job creation for  survivors of December's Indian Ocean tsunami, a senior United  Nations official said Monday.
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Distraught Sri Lankans have wandered through debris-strewn streets, desperately looking for any sign of relatives swept away by a deadly tsunami that has killed at least 10,200 people in the country.
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Dozens of trucks and vans formed numerous queues in Colombo as tragedy-struck Sri Lankans offered aid to help fellow citizens hard hit by the tsunami that left 12,000 dead on the island.
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Bureaucratic bungling has blocked food and medicine from reaching 70 percent of Sri Lankans left destitute by the tsunami, a government official said Wednesday, while nine survivors of the disaster were found deep in a jungle on a remote Indian island.
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A family displaced by Sunday&#39;s tsunami sleeps on the floor of a school converted into a relief centre in Kalmuni, Sri Lanka December 30, 2004.
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Thousands of North Americans are still missing in Thailand and Sri Lanka after the deadly tsunami.
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Colombo, Dec 27: The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka reached 12,000, including at least 70 foreigners while many were reported still missing as rescuers today frantically searched for survivors and engaged in reaching aid and medical care
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to  mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels say Sunday&#39;s tsunami killed nearly 10,000 people in areas under their control and they are still trying to locate hundreds of missing fishermen.