Tsunami Aid Pours in But Airports Prove Bottlenecks
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A multinational force of aid workers,  military aircraft and ships descended on Asia as global tsunami  relief pledges topped $1.36 billion, but the hundreds of tons  of aid created a logistical nightmare.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Logistical problems hampered a massive humanitarian relief operation along Asia&#39;s devastated shores as the death toll from a huge earthquake and killer tidal waves surged past 55,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Starving people besieged  helicopters carrying the first aid to remote Indonesian towns  on Sunday as frustration grew at the slowness of help a week  after tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines.
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International efforts to aid desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up pace, said UN officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions that the response had been slow.
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The country's airline industry is booming, but airports and air traffic control are not keeping pace with all the progress
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Relief organizations arriving in Asia&#39;s isolated tsunami-hit areas to bring in much-needed food and medical supplies say the needs are even greater than at first thought.
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Heavy rains and floods are  holding up efforts to help victims of the Asian tsunami, but  the United Nations said on Tuesday that "extraordinary  progress" was being made and the total amount of aid pledged  had risen to between $2 billion and $3 billion.
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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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Aid agencies around the world rushed  staff, equipment and money to southern Asia where hundreds of  thousands of people were left homeless after tsunamis pummeled  coastal communities on Sunday.
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Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted  aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the U.N.  refugee agency started a 400-ton airlift as part of a $2  billion relief operation to save millions struggling to  survive.
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PARIS: Governments and aid organisations around the world scrambled to offer aid and technical help after the devastating quake and tidal waves that killed thousands of people in Asia on Sunday.
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Delivering aid to Sri Lanka&#39;s tsunami-struck disaster areas is being hampered by poor transport, aid officials have told CNN. &quot;Aid is trickling through, not flowing through,&quot; the
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Cargo planes touched down with promised aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week&#39;s quake-tsunami catastrophe.
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Cargo planes touched down with promised aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week's quake-tsunami catastrophe.
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Aid trucks loaded with food, medicines  and body bags rolled into tsunami-hit areas across Asia and  aircraft dropped supplies to cut-off villages as a $500 million  relief operation finally swung into gear on Friday.
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Five days after an undersea earthquake 160 miles south of here triggered a huge tsunami, Banda Aceh's little airport has begun to hum with the arrivals of C-130 Hercules transport planes bringing in relief supplies. But their numbers seemed nowhere near commensurate with the sweep of the disaster in northern Sumatra.
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Aid agencies taking part in the largest relief effort in history struggled Thursday to get food, water and medicine to survivors of this week&#39;s massive earthquake and tsunamis that officials said likely killed more than