Foreign aid flooding into tsunami-hit Sri Lanka
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Foreign aid started to pour in with 16 countries pledging assistance to the stricken victims in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka, local media reported Wednesday.
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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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At least 4,300 people, mostly children and the elderly, were killed and hundreds were missing after giant tsunamis caused the worst ever disaster in Sri Lanka, prompting appeals for international help.
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Jeremy Bowen reports on the devastation caused by Sunday's  sea surges in parts of Sri Lanka controlled by Tamil Tigers rebels.
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THE strength of ties between the United Kingdom and Indian Ocean countries stricken by the tsunami emerged in the pattern of giving to victims of the disaster.
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The world's biggest-ever aid operation got into gear to help Asian countries stricken by tsunamis that smashed coastal towns leaving misery and the risk of disease in their wake.
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Flooding displaced more than 20,000 people from their homes in eastern Sri Lanka as a depression over the Bay of Bengal increased monsoon rains, officials said on Tuesday.
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SRI Lanka is banking on 2,000 Indian medical workers and planeloads of other foreign relief to help it stave off disease from thousands of decomposing bodies in the wake of Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami.
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International aid efforts got under way today, with private, government and UN aid teams heading to southern Asian countries devastated by tidal waves after the region was rocked by the world - s most powerful ...
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Sri Lanka has been devastated, as surging waves from the Indian Ocean crashed into its eastern and southern coasts, and flooded vast areas Sunday morning.
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Assistance to victims of the tsunami is coming not only from international relief organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, but from the Indonesian government, U.N. agencies and the civilians and militaries of many countries.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada will send its military disaster assistance team to Sri Lanka and double to &#36;80 million its aid for south Asia countries devastated by a killer tsunami one week ago, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Sunday.
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Heavy rain and flooding are seriously hampering the tsunami relief operation in eastern Sri Lanka.
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Aid has begun trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports as the death toll continued its inexorable rise.
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Aid from the UK is already helping in countries worst hit by the tsunami.
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Delivering aid to Sri Lanka&#39;s tsunami-struck disaster areas is being hampered by poor transport, aid officials have told CNN. &quot;Aid is trickling through, not flowing through,&quot; the
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Sri Lanka mobilised its entire public service and the military into an internationally-backed relief operation to stave off hunger and disease as the tsunami death toll neared 22,500.