U.S. Carrier Leaves Indonesia's Tsunami Effort
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Indonesia bid farewell to the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln on Thursday as foreign troops began to scale back tsunami relief after five weeks of ferrying food, water and help to survivors.
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ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid yesterday, as the US military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War, ferrying food and other emergency relief to survivors across the disaster zone.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. aid helicopters  stepped up missions on Tuesday to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh  province, expanding help to millions affected by the giant wave  that killed 175,000 around the Indian Ocean.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A US Navy aircraft carrier battle group is heading from Hong Kong to the shores of Sumatra. The first of many Air Force C-130 cargo planes has landed in Indonesia with a load of blankets, plastic sheeting, and medicines.
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Rescue teams are sent to Sumatra in Indonesia, where a strong earthquake has reduced buildings to rubble.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Navy helicopters,  unable to land in flooded, tsunami-ravaged Indonesian villages,  dropped aid on Sunday to desperate crowds clamoring for the  life-saving parcels.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopter aid  flights in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province have resumed  after briefly stopping because of the crash of a military  helicopter on Monday, a U.S. navy officer said.
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A ship carrying the first energy aid for North Korea under a key disarmament deal leaves South Korea.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. forces said they  were prepared to wind down tsunami relief efforts in Asia  despite fears that some survivors were still desperate for help  after a disaster that killed more than 226,000 people.
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WASHINGTON  - The skies over Asia are being darkened these days by an abundance of relief-bearing cargo planes, reflecting the huge outpouring of international sympathy and support in response to the tsunami crisis.
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A major US military airlift of relief goods for victims of deadly storms in the Philippines was winding down, a spokeswoman for the mission said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Eight days after a giant  tsunami struck Asia, relief workers faced "absolute chaos" in  Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday as a $2 billion operation  to help disaster victims fought to get off the ground.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Navy helicopters,  unable to land in tsunami-ravaged Indonesian villages, dropped  aid Sunday to desperate crowds clamoring for the life-saving  parcels.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line  all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float miles out to sea.
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European travel companies were searching for missing customers and cancelling departures to areas devastated by the Asian tsunami on Wednesday as some experts predicted
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TORONTO (CP) - The first relief agency flights from Canada to tsunami-stricken Indonesia are expected to take off from Toronto this week.
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SAULT STE. MARIE - The American Red Cross is responding to the large scale disaster in southern Asia after the earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia struck on Dec. 26 and triggered a number of tsunami