Aid to Indian islands 'hijacked'
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The Red Cross accuses India of "hijacking" the aid effort for tsunami-hit Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Unusually high tides again swamped parts of India's tsunami-devastated Andaman islands overnight and Indonesia told aid workers it could not guarantee their safety in many parts of Aceh province.
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In India, where more than 12,400 people are thought to have died in Sunday&#39;s disaster, rescuers were still unable today to reach some of the islands affected by the tidal waves.
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The island of Car Nicobar has been devastated by the tsunami, with around half its population unaccounted for, as the BBC's Jonathan Charles discovered.
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An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government ...Comment
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Foreign aid agencies  urge the authorities in the devastated Andaman islands to let them join the relief effort.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - Heavy rains and fresh floods  disrupted aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages Sunday as the U.N.  refugee agency started a 400-tonairlift as part of a $2 billion  relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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The Indian army says planes have delivered supplies to tsunami survivors on  all the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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Authorities have evacuated dozens of the world's most primitive people from their tsunami-hit homelands in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, potentially exposing them to unwelcome outside influence.
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Survivors in the Andaman Islands accuse officials of underplaying the disaster and failing to hand out aid.
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PORT BLAIR, India: Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands today.
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Private donors are being urged to "adopt an island" under a UN scheme launched in the tsunami-hit Maldives.
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The international community has pledged more than $250 million in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami that devastated coastlines from south Asia to east Africa, with planeloads of supplies leaving Britain ...
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Tempers flared over the  sluggish pace of aid efforts in India's remote and restricted  Andamans and Nicobars Sunday as hundreds of bodies lay  scattered around the islands a week after the tsunami struck.
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A group of Sri Lankans who paid to work in the Gulf were duped into travelling to Iraq, an aid agency says.
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The financial cost to India's mainland from December's tsunami is more than $1bn, the government says.
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Aid poured into the regions stricken by the Indian Ocean earthquake and the ensuing tsunamis on Thursday as governments and relief agencies mustered their forces to airlift supplies and personnel.