Tsunami aid effort gathers pace
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International aid starts to penetrate the areas worst affected by last Sunday's Indian Ocean wave.
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Hungry refugees along Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged coasts complained of slow aid delivery Saturday, while world pledges for the massive relief efforts shot up to about &#36;2 billion, a quarter of it from Japan, which boosted its contribution to make it the single largest country donor.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to supply food and water to millions of  tsunami victims, and salvage crews unblocked the runway at an  Indonesian airport serving as a key hub for relief shipments.
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Even as relief efforts begin to provide food and clean water to millions of victims of Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunamis, relief officials are saying much more is needed to prevent an even greater loss of life.
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British charities are stepping up their efforts today to help the victims of the tsunamis which devastated countries around the Indian Ocean.
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Rescue workers raced to get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on Tuesday, and struggled to clear airport runways to fly aid into regions where giant waves washed roads away as well as people.
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U.S. officials held a conference call Sunday to discuss ways to aid the south Asian countries inundated by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A White House statement said aid had begun flowing to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
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Aid agencies around the world rushed  staff, equipment and money to southern Asia where hundreds of  thousands of people were forced to flee after tsunamis pummeled  coastal communities on Sunday.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 6 (IPS) - As donations for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster  continue to rise, development experts are hoping that the  generosity shown by governments and citizens will mark a ânew  beginningâ in the fight against poverty.
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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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Aid has begun trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports as the death toll continued its inexorable rise.
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Relief agencies struggled to rush aid to more than 3 million people in Africa and Asia who lack food and medicine as the number of fatalities from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rescue workers raced to  get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on Tuesday,  and struggled to clear airport runways to fly aid into regions  where giant waves washed roads away as well as people.
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The massive global aid operation to help the victims of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean is beginning to deliver results.
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The international lifeline to save five million homeless victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami gathered strength on Sunday.
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More aid arrives in communities devastated by the Asian tsunami, as the clean-up operation continues.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The hungry scavenged for  food and water and the wounded flooded hospitals in Indonesia's  Aceh Wednesday, as a global relief effort staggered to help  survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.