U.S. Says No Adoptions Now of Young Tsunami Victims
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The youngest victims of the Asian  tsunami may be homeless, traumatized and possibly orphaned, but  they are not yet candidates for U.S. adoption, the State  Department said on Wednesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the United States "will certainly not turn away from those in desperate need" as he works with Asian leaders to speed up relief efforts in the tsunami disaster.
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NEW DELHI -- India's government again put aside private aid groups' urgent requests yesterday to help tsunami survivors on the devastated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, saying a decision would be made after five days.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga wants to adopt a Tamil child orphaned in the tsunami, officials say.
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The Bush Administration said on  Wednesday tsunami-hit countries that want long-term debt relief  would have to choose between that and other U.S. aid.
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Guatemala fears the United States could suspend child adoptions from the Central American country if it fails to implement an international treaty against child trafficking, a government official said.
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Highlights of the Bush administration's response Wednesday to the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe in Asia:
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The United States has rejected a request by Japan that it verify Tokyo's contribution to the US-led "war on terror" in Afghanistan is not used for military operations in Iraq, a report said Sunday.
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The U.S. abandoned a bid that it had aggressively pursued to obtain a U.N. treaty banning all human cloning, including that done in the name of medical research.
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Hundreds of Americans remain missing two days after devastating tsunamis struck Asia, but the State Department says a large number have been located and are safe. Responding to the disaster, the U.S. Agency for International Development added &#36;20 million to the already promised &#36;15 million.
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The United States has received official requests for help from five of the 11 countries hit by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The State Department said so far the governments of Indonesia, Maldives, Somalia
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the  worst-hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, as reports  surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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Every 100th baby born in Guatemala grows up as an adopted American, making the Central American country the richest source of adoptees in the Western Hemisphere. But U.S. ratification of an international adoption treaty is likely to choke off the supply next summer.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The US military, the largest group helping tsunami survivors, is starting to withdraw troops from the relief efforts to feed and house more than 1 million refugees, the US Pacific commander said yesterday.
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U.S. helicopters rescued dozens of desperate and weak tsunami survivors, including a young girl clutching a stuffed Snoopy dog, as the American military relief operation reached out to remote areas of Indonesia with cartons of food and water on Monday.
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Humanitarian groups warned against westerners rushing to adopt Asian children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, proposing instead that they sponsor children or continue donating to aid organizations.
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The United Nations said on Friday it had received reports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers were recruiting children displaced by Asia's tsunami and had told the rebels to leave under-age survivors alone.