UK leads world quake aid effort
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Britain is leading the drive to raise money for the Asian tsunami victims, with public donations of up to Â£1m an hour.
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Governments and registered aid organizations have so far pledged more than &#36;1.5 billion to aid victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the World Bank and the Asian Bank of Development have pledged more than &#36;500 million, bringing the total for relief and reconstruction aid to more than &#36;2 billion, according to the United Nations. A look at major government pledges, according to the United Nations and Associated Press bureau reports.
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Countries across the globe were yesterday responding to the massive tsunami catastrophe in south Asia as United Nations officials warned that it would require the world&#39;s biggest ever aid
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International relief efforts  picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that  killed more than 5,000 people on Indonesia&#039;s Java island, but  many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.
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International organisation and countries are poring in relief and over $500 million have already been pledged. This includes $250 million for tsunami relief offered by the World Bank on Thursday.
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Britain is leading the drive to raise money for the victims of the Asian tsunami, with public donations of up to Â£1m an hour.
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Britain is to send two Royal Navy ships and a military cargo plane to help relief efforts following the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, officials in London said.
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WASHINGTON -- Humanitarian groups and governments across the globe launched the largest relief effort in history Tuesday in a desperate race to save thousands of tsunami survivors facing a new threat from deadly diseases.
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LONDON: A total of 20 Britons have been confirmed dead in the tsunami disaster that swept Asian coastlines following a massive undersea earthquake, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
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British charities have launched a mammoth aid effort for victims of the sea surges in south and east Asia.
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An unprecedented world relief drive to shelter, treat and feed millions of survivors of Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster kicked into high gear Friday as donations poured in and aid planes and ships _ including a US aircraft carrier
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World leaders who met Thursday at an emergency tsunami summit pushed to give the United Nations the central coordinating role for humanitarian relief and agreed to work toward the development of a regional early warning system for future tsunamis.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries worst hit by the tsunami wave devastation as governments and aid groups sent money and emergency specialists to answer desperate pleas for help.
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The British public has donated 32 million pounds (45 million euros, 62 million dollars) for victims of the Asian tsunami, with calls to an aid line hitting a peak of almost a million an hour, charity organisers said.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  together to help victims of the most wide-reaching natural  disaster in living memory as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan  declared they were in a "race against time."
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Governments and individuals across the world were digging into their pockets on Thursday to help the millions of victims of the killer waves that struck southern Asia, as the UN said well over one billion dollars would be needed.
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Authorities and aid agencies in Sri Lanka are carrying out the relief effort using maps produced by a team of Britons.