US Marines Dispatched to Storm-Ravaged Philippines
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The United States on Tuesday dispatched about 600 Marines and Navy personnel from Okinawa to help residents in the flood-ravaged Philippines. The Pentagon said tents, water and medical supplies also were being sent.
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The United States dispatched disaster teams Monday and prepared an initial &#36;15 million aid package to the Asian countries hit by a massive earthquake and tsunamis. U.S. officials were seeking to contact hundreds of Americans who remain unaccounted for in the region.
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One of the biggest U.S. military disaster relief missions in history kicked into high gear Saturday as an aircraft carrier battle group arrived off the shores of tsunami-battered Sumatra and began launching helicopters laden with supplies.
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GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines  - Philippine soldiers  rushed food, drinking water and other supplies by foot and  helicopters on Sunday to provinces cut off by four storms in  two weeks that left more than 1,000 people dead or missing.
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A US aircraft carrier group was headed for Indonesia&#39;s tsunami-stricken Aceh province on Thursday to help with relief operations in the world&#39;s most populous Muslim country, officials said.
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A new storm system approaching the Philippines is on track to become the second typhoon in 10 days to batter the archipelago, as the country struggles to recover from mudslides that left more than 1,000 people dead or missing, forecasters said Thursday.
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REAL, Philippines, Dec. 4 -- Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared on Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that killed 640 people and left nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.
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The United States dispatched disaster specialists yesterday and prepared an initial $15 million (euro11 million) aid package to the Asian countries hit by a massive earthquake and tsunamis.
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Four people were rescued in the Philippines yesterday from a building that collapsed and was buried in mud 10 days ago when two devastating storms struck the country&#39;s north-east.
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Rescuers on Thursday pulled at least four survivors from a building that collapsed 10 days ago during storms that killed more than 700 people in the Philippines, and soldiers were working frantically to free at least 20 other
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President Bush is sending a high-level delegation to Asia to assess needs in areas most affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami. Secretary of State Colin Powell and the president&#39;s brother, Jeb Bush, will lead the group.
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The United States has dispatched disaster teams to the Asian countries hit hard by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunamis and is
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MANILA, Philippines -- High winds and heavy rain from the approaching Typhoon Namandol are hampering rescue efforts in the northeastern Philippines where emergency services are struggling with the aftermath of two earlier storms.
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Officials in the Philippines have called for international aid to help more than half a million people hit by devastating back-to-back storms.
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Relief agencies battled bad weather to deliver supplies into storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the toll of dead and missing from two storms in one week exceeded 1,400, officials said.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The United States will  dispatch up to 1,500 marines and a mini aircraft carrier  carrying some 20 helicopters to Sri Lanka to assist in relief  and reconstruction, a senior U.S. military officer said on  Saturday.
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Relief workers battled rain and choppy seas today to deliver food and medicine to the Philippinesâ north-east following devastating back-to-back storms that killed at least 568 people and left hundreds more missing.