Pledges of relief reach $500 million
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday that the United Nations had received pledges of $500 million to pay for emergency assistance to victims of the south Asia earthquake and tsunami.
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The US Senate gave final congressional approval yesterday to $14.5 billion in aid for states hit by hurricanes and drought and $32 billion for homeland
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A further Â£7 million was donated overnight to help the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami - bringing the total raised so far to Â£32 million, the Disasters Emergency Committee said.
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The world has pledged about $220 million to help tsunami survivors, relying on lessons from past disasters to expedite relief. WASHINGTON - Aid workers in airplanes dropped thousands of packets of noodles to Indonesians stranded in cliff-top villages.
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The global Red Cross and Red Crescent  body IFRC on Wednesday launched a world-wide appeal for $3.3  million (2.7 million euros) to fund operations bringing relief  to 40,000 people in hurricane and flood-hit Haiti.
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Texas Instruments is making a $500,000 donation to the American Red Cross International Response Fund for immediate and emergency care for victims of South Asia&#39;s devastating tsunami.
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Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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Individuals and governments donated a record $17 billion to help disaster victims in 2005, the international Red Cross said in its annual report Thursday.
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SEATTLE - The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $3 million to provide aid to South Asian countries devastated by an earthquake and tsunamis.
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The United States expects to provide an initial 15 million dollars in aid for victims of a devastating Tsunami in Asia and has already released 400,000 dollars, a top US aid official said.
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The United States expects to provide  an initial $15 million in aid for victims of the devastating  tsunami in Asia and has already released $400,000, the  assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International  Development said Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will seek $950 million in federal aid for the areas affected by the Asian tsunami, nearly tripling a previous commitment of $350 million that was announced when the administration was under fire for what critics called a sluggish response to the crisis.
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From antibiotics to clothes to cash &#151; lots of it &#151; U.S.-based relief groups report an overwhelming response from donors moved by the devastation of the Indian Ocean tsunami, with more than &#36;200 million raised as of Tuesday. One charity said online pledges were coming in at the rate of &#36;100,000 an hour.
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The World Bank has pledgedto allocate 250 million US dollars for relief efforts after the devastating tidal waves hit southern Asia and eastern Africa, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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The United States will pledge between $500 million and $600 million in aid to the Palestinians at a donors conference in Paris next week, two U.S. officials said on Friday.
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As the first trickle of supplies broke through, Japan increased its pledge of aid from $30 million to $500 million.
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Government pledges of relief top $3 billion. Why some recipients say, 'No, thank you.'