Desperate flood victims await aid
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At least 175,000 Haitians have been affected by flooding caused by a tropical storm, relief workers say.
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Residents stocked up to prepare for a storm that has already swamped communities in the Caribbean and reportedly killed dozens.
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Haitians struggle to grasp a tin of food as a shipment of aid arrives in Gonaives, five days after floods inundated the city. Photo: AFP.
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Rescuers and volunteers are struggling to reach nearly 190,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods sparked by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, as the death toll rose to seven.
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Getting aid to those who need it remain a big problem in storm-ravaged Haiti, where up to 1,500 were killed in flooding and 300,000 people were left homeless.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Tsunami survivors were  trying to rebuild their shattered lives on Friday as aid  agencies scrambled to reach some 5 million people affected by  the most wide-reaching natural disaster in living memory.
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Rescuers and volunteers have struggled to help nearly 340,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods, triggered by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, which have killed 20 people.
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Bad weather, smashed infrastructure and logistical snarls have made it difficult to get food and medical supplies to survivors.
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Rescuers and volunteers are struggling to reach nearly 190,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods triggered by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, as the death toll rose to 20.
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A boat ride with emergency workers Tuesday revealed the hardships residents are suffering five days after torrential rains unleashed floodwaters that have killed 44 people and chased hundreds of thousands from their homes in this city of 12 million.
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Rescue workers tried on Monday to save people trapped on their rooftops by flash floods that killed a 4-year-old girl after heavy weekend rains drenched parts of north Texas.
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While desperately hungry flood victims wander the streets of Gonaives searching for help, tons of food aid is piling up in a warehouse guarded by UN peacekeepers.
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Rescue workers are rushing relief aid to tens of thousands of wet and hungry survivors, as heavy equipment moves in to clear debris from two storms that are feared to have claimed 1,100 lives in the northern Philippines.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE : Disaster relief crews battled to get emergency aid to 170,000 people affected by floods that killed more than 700 in Haiti, a Caribbean nation that ranks among the world&#39;s poorest.
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Water levels in areas worst-hit by flooding are falling but may take three days to clear, firefighters say.
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Hundreds of householders are mopping up or bracing for flooding as heavy rain continues
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana  - Guyana appealed to the  international community on Thursday to send food, boats, power  generators and water pumps to help thousands of its inhabitants  forced from their homes by the worst floods in more than a  century.