Mauritania Red Crescent sends aid to ship
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The Mauritanian Red Crescent delivered a ton of emergency humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of illegal immigrants stranded on a ship off the West African coast.
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Medicines, rice, water and tarps were delivered to Indonesia&#039;s earthquake disaster zone Wednesday to help about 650,000 displaced people, but many said the international aid was taking too long to get there.
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France mobilized Friday to send urgent aid to Lebanon, the Red Cross managed to get relief supplies to the south &#151; and Israel agreed to allow a safe corridor crucial to ensuring that food and medicine reaches those in need.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - An Iraqi Red Crescent convoy  reached Falluja Saturday with the first aid since U.S.-led  forces began to blast their way in five days ago, and Iraqi  officials said only pockets of rebel resistance remained.
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Relief supplies are reaching Port-au-Prince but are slow to reach hardest-hit Gonaives. A man tries to hang on to a sack of rice he apparently swiped from a truck near Gonaives.
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Mauritania seizes a boatload of Africans heading for Europe for the first time.
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[World News]: Washington, Dec 30 : The American Red Cross, in response to its appeal for funds to help tsunami-hit victims, received about 18 million dollars in donations to its International Response Fund by today afternoon.
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A U.S. warship is approaching the area off the Horn of Africa where Somali pirates have anchored a hijacked ship chartered to carry U.N. food aid, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday.
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A Red Crescent convoy of emergency supplies has entered Fallujah amid fears of a growing humanitarian crisis in the Iraqi battle zone as a massive US led offensive against rebels entered its sixth day.
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The largest international disaster relief effort in history shifted into high gear yesterday as aid agencies across the globe began shipping water purification kits and other supplies to survivors along the ...
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One of the world&#39;s biggest humanitarian relief efforts came to life yesterday as warships, helicopters, search aircraft, transport planes and refrigerated containers
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A Red Crescent aid convoy tried  to reach desperate civilians trapped by a five-day-old U.S.  assault on rebels in Falluja Saturday, while insurgents took  charge of swathes of Iraq's third city, Mosul.
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Madrid: French and Spanish rescue aircraft and boats yesterday assisted a cruise ship limping along in the Mediterranean with more than 700 people aboard after a storm knocked out its engines.
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The international Red Cross delivered more aid in Lebanon on Wednesday, and U.N. officials said they negotiated with Israel safe passage for two oil tankers to sail into the country to help ease a growing fuel crisis.
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The global Red Cross issued an emergency  appeal Sunday for immediate aid to hundreds of thousands of  people stricken by the tsunamis in South-East Asia.
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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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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.