Tsunami 'Core Group' of Relief Nations Disbanded
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An effort by the United States, Japan,  India and Australia to coordinate tsunami relief will be  disbanded and folded into the broader U.N.-led operations,  Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday.
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The tsunami that crashed into coastlines across southern Asia is likely to present the United Nations with its biggest and costliest relief effort, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said on Monday.
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The U.S. State Department has ruled out, for now, the adoption of children from countries devastated by the tsunami disaster.
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Normally exuberant New Year celebrations  were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia's tsunami  as several major cities canceled parties and Australia led a  global minute of silence.
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SYDNEY - Normally exuberant New Year celebrations were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asiaâs tsunami as several major cities cancelled parties and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was "unprecedented" devastation wrought by tidal waves and a massive earthquake that killed tens of thousands in southern Asia.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has started organizing what it says will be the biggest relief effort the world have ever seen, to help the survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami.
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Major international bodies the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said they would help India to rebuild lives and infrastructure shattered by last month's tsunami.
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Sri Lanka on Wednesday pulled out of their cricket tour of New Zealand in the wake of the tsunami disaster that wreaked havoc across the South Asian countries including this island nation over the weekend.
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Rescue teams in India and Sri Lanka are heading out to the last of the areas devastated by tsunami waves. The story unfolding is of more devastation.
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Assistance to victims of the tsunami is coming not only from international relief organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, but from the Indonesian government, U.N. agencies and the civilians and militaries of many countries.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - The United Nations emerged  Saturday as a coordinator for a regional tsunami warning center  after officials from 43 nations including India, Indonesia and  Thailand failed to agree who should run it.
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The United Nations yesterday set aside $1 million to assess environmental damage caused by this week's devastating tsunami, as reports of destroyed coral reefs and uprooted mangrove forests began trickling in.
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The tsunami that struck over the weekend spread a ring of destruction through nearly a dozen countries. Those are the places most directly affected, and on a calamitous scale.
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The U.S. military &#151; the largest group helping tsunami survivors &#151; will immediately start withdrawing troops from the relief efforts to feed and house more than 1 million refugees, the U.S. Pacific commander said Thursday.
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JAKARTA: At least 24,000 feared dead in Tsunamis-hit countries of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Bengla Desh, Thailand and Malaysia.
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Officials from dozens of Asian nations including India, Indonesia and Thailand failed on Friday to agree who should run a regional tsunami warning system, officials said, dashing hopes for its quick establishment.