Outside Help Reaches Most of Aceh, U.N. Says
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Emergency relief in  Indonesia's tsunami-struck Aceh is heading for a new phase, now  that first contact has been established with most remote areas,  the chief of U.N. operations there said Sunday.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday he will visit tsunami-devastated Indonesia to work with regional leaders to help coordinate aid and relief efforts on the ground.
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The United Nations on Tuesday lifted a travel ban on aid workers in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province, the scene of a decades-long conflict between rebels and government forces that has raised concerns about the safety of relief efforts.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in  Indonesia's Aceh province from a quake and tsunami that struck  on Sunday might reach between 50,000 and 80,000, a UN official  said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages in an area washed  flat by the tsunami a week ago, but it grew clearer no amount  of aid could stop more loss of life throughout the disaster  zone.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia Â· Food drops and other aid trickled toward this region from around the world on Friday, but slowly enough that the injured and the stranded in many places still had to fend
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The hungry scavenged for  food and water and the wounded flooded hospitals in Indonesia's  Aceh Wednesday, as a global relief effort staggered to help  survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.
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Leaders in the international tsunami aid effort expressed concern about how curbs on the movement of workers and a deadline for foreign troops to leave would affect relief in Indonesia's worst-hit Aceh province.
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Medicines, rice, water and tarps were delivered to Indonesia&#039;s earthquake disaster zone Wednesday to help about 650,000 displaced people, but many said the international aid was taking too long to get there.
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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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Most foreign troops operating in tsunami-devastated areas, such as Indonesia's Aceh province, could be home in a month, the UN head of tsunami coordination efforts Margareta Wahlstrom said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the  worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as  reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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Aid workers reaching remote areas of Indonesia's Aceh province discover the extent of the tsunami's devastation.
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More than a month after the devastating tsunami, one in eight children in Indonesia's Aceh province is not getting enough to eat, the threat of disease still stalks relief camps and aid deliveries are inconsistent, two U.N. reports said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations said  it feared restrictions on aid workers in Aceh could hinder  international relief operations in the Indonesian province  devastated by last month's tsunami.
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International efforts to aid desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up pace, said UN officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions that the response had been slow.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia said on  Thursday restrictions on aid workers in Aceh were for their own  safety in a province troubled by a decades-old insurgency, and  voiced readiness to sit down with the rebels to seek a  cease-fire.