Red Cross, UN call for urgent aid for Pakistan flood victims
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The United Nations and the Red Cross appealed for 55 million dollars in emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of Pakistani flood victims, warning that an already dire situation could worsen.
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Rescue efforts are under way after a burst dam in Pakistan kills 70 amid widespread flooding across the country.
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By Rindi White, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 6--WASILLA -- When heavy rains caused rivers and creeks to flood Aug. 18 and 19, the American Red Cross responded with more help than flood victims needed, Red Cross officials said.
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Severe flooding and avalanches have killed around 350 people in Pakistan, officials said after a week of torrential rain and heavy snow, while 2,000 others were missing and tens of thousands left homeless.
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The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries hit by tsunami wave devastation on Sunday as governments and aid groups sent money and rescuers to answer desperate pleas for help.
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The UN says Bangladeshi children and women face acute malnutrition after the worst floods for years.
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An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Somalis  need immediate relief aid in coastal towns devastated by waves  whipped up by an earthquake in Asia, the United Nations said on  Wednesday.
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Aid agencies struggled on Tuesday to  cope with the scale of the Asian tsunami disaster which has  killed more than 38,000 people, with the International Red  Cross saying it may have to treble its appeal for funds.
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Aid workers backed by military  helicopters battled on Sunday to provide food for 200,000  people displaced by monsoon floods in southern India, while the  Pakistani city of Karachi was mostly without power after a  storm killed 43 people.
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Aid agencies are appealing for funds to help the victims of recent floods in a swathe of African countries.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - More than a week after  devastating floods hit northern Haiti the death count rose  sharply as reports came in from remote areas on Monday and aid  workers struggled to feed thousands of desperate people.
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More than a week after devastating floods hit northern Haiti the death count rose sharply as reports came in from remote areas on Monday and aid workers struggled to feed thousands of desperate people.
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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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Rescuers in Pakistan struggle to bring aid to more than one million people hit by deadly storms.
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The international Red Cross appealed Friday for $81 million to help victims of the fighting in Lebanon. Life is becoming "unbearably dangerous" for civilians who have been trapped by the violence, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistan stepped up search and  rescue operations Sunday for tens of thousands affected by  flash floods after the heaviest rains in the country in two  decades, in which close to 300 people have been killed.
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By ZARAR KHAN  KARACHI, Pakistan - Thousands of people were stranded on rooftops and tree branches Wednesday as cyclone-spawned floods surged through towns and villages of Pakistan's coastline, officials said.