US extends sympathy, aid to Indonesian quake victims
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President George W. Bush expressed the sympathy of the United States for the victims of a major earthquake in Indonesia, and pledged help in recovery efforts.
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President George W Bush says the US will form an international coalition to lead aid efforts for victims of the quake disaster.
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US President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he is committed to helping countries affected bythe tsunami disaster &quot;in the difficult weeks and months that lie ahead.
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International relief efforts  picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that  killed more than 5,000 people on Indonesia&#039;s Java island, but  many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters stepped  up aid flights in tsunami-hit Indonesia Tuesday as U.N.  Secretary General Kofi Annan urged rich nations to spend more  on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits.
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The United States expects to provide an initial $15 million in aid for victims of the devastating tsunami in Asia and has already released $400,000, the assistant administrator of the US Agency for International Development said
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U.S. forces prepared to start winding down their huge tsunami relief effort while donors pledged &#36;1.7 billion to help badly hit Indonesia recover from a calamity which cost 226,000 lives across Asia.
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The United States expects to provide  an initial $15 million in aid for victims of a devastating  tsunami in Asia and has already released $400,000, a top U.S.  aid official said on Monday.
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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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The United States expects to provide  an initial $15 million in aid for victims of the devastating  tsunami in Asia and has already released $400,000, the  assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International  Development said Monday.
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The US government and the military in Japan stand ready to help earthquake victims in Niigata following Saturdayâs deadly quake and aftershocks that killed at least 25 people and injured more than 2,700, US officials said Monday.
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The United States upped its tsunami relief aid tenfold Friday as the world's ships and planes converged on devastated shores. Bottlenecks of supplies built up, fears of epidemics grew, and in an echo of 9/11's aftermath, people at a Thai resort scoured a bulletin board of 4,000 photos in search of the dead and missing.
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Major US corporations began rolling out plans Thursday to donate to the massive relief effort under way to help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck South Asia on Sunday.
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The United States is set to offer  "all appropriate assistance" to Asian countries hit on Sunday  by a powerful earthquake and the giant waves it generated, a  White House spokesman said.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - The United States Monday  announced $468 million in aid to Indonesia, the world's most  populous Muslim nation, earmarking part of it to improve  Islamic schools, which have been blamed for encouraging  fundamentalism.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters stepped  up aid missions to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province on  Tuesday as the United Nations urged rich countries to spend  more now to reduce the toll from future natural disasters.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Agency for International Development is adding $20 million to an initial $15 million contribution for Asian earthquake relief as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell bristled at a United Nations official's suggestion the United States has been "stingy."