Tsunami leaves up to 5 mln needing urgent help-UN
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Up to five million people have been left without the resources for daily life by the Indian Ocean tsunami, lacking either water, food or basic sanitation, a senior UN official said on Wednesday.
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New York (VNA) - Efforts to overcome the aftermath of the quake and subsequent tsunami in South and Southeast Asia need a close coordination of global emergency relief, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said at a press briefing in New York on
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health care, the United Nations health agency said Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations said that the biggest disaster relief operation ever staged would be needed for the Asian tsunami victims as medicines and other emergency supplies started pouring into the worst hit zones.
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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 warns the Asia quake disaster in which at least 23,000 died will require the biggest relief operation ever.
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As the death toll from the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe soared to nearly 120,000, nations donated US$500 million (euro370 million) toward the world&#39;s largest-ever relief effort, but UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said even
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The United States has received official requests for help from five of the 11 countries hit by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The State Department said so far the governments of Indonesia, Maldives, Somalia
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International organisation and countries are poring in relief and over $500 million have already been pledged. This includes $250 million for tsunami relief offered by the World Bank on Thursday.
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A top UN humanitarian official said that billions of dollars of damage had been caused by the Asian tsunami disaster and that it now required the biggest relief operation ever to help the victims.
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Indian police say at least 5,000 people are believed to have been killed by the weekend tsunami that struck the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Press Trust (PTI) of India reported on Tuesday.
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The UN warns of an epidemic as the number of tsunami and quake deaths soars above 55,000 and thousands remain missing. BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA -- Desperate refugees foraged for coconuts or looted food on Indonesia&#39;s
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The United Nations on Wednesday appealed for 130 million dollars to jumpstart its relief effort after the tsunami disaster and said more would be required soon.
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Aid officials said Monday that the tsunami claimed the people most needed now in Indonesia's worst-hit province &#151; with four out of five public health workers missing &#151; while U.S. Deputy Defense Minister Paul Wolfowitz surveyed Sri Lanka's devastated south by helicopter.
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United Nations: Half a billion dollars in assistance has been promised or delivered for tsunami victims around the Indian Ocean, UN chief Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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Tsunami survivors were trying to rebuild their shattered lives on Friday as aid agencies scrambled to reach some 5 million people affected by the most wide-reaching natural disaster in living memory.
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The United Nations is sending special teams to Asia to help after the tsunami disaster which the head of UNICEF said had wielded "staggering" power.