Pacific islanders survive 34 days adrift
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Four fishermen rescued near the Marshall Islands after surviving 34 days adrift in the Pacific, said they were ignored by a passing fishing boat less than a week after being lost at sea.
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It's one thing to embark on a 34-mile walking pilgrimage as a show of faith. When nearly 300 people turn out despite a tropical storm in the forecast, perhaps that's an even stronger demonstration.
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A coastal rescue team saved 34 passengers and two crew from a ferry in Devon that broke free of its guide cables in bad weather and began drifting out to sea, the coastguard said.
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Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest habitat Thursday for the first time since the Dec. 26 tsunami and earthquakes that rocked the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and in a rare interaction with outsiders announced that all 250 of their fellow tribespeople had survived.
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MEDAN, Indonesia -- These are the lucky ones. Fate sent them to the crumbling wards of the Pirngadi General Hospital instead of to their graves. Here, where many victims with the most complicated injuries from the Dec. 26 tsunami were evacuated, survivors embark on daunting recoveries.
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killed up to 600 people in a part of the northern Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon in just over 24 hours. forced to carry supplies on foot after roads were cut off and bad weather grounded rescue helicopters.
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First mammoth waves washed over their villages, leaving not a single hut standing. Then the survivors' ordeal began: days of thirst, hunger and miles of walking until &#151; just at the point of rescue &#151; a hungry pack of crocodiles tried to snap them up.
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Indonesian rescuers, police and troops in inflatable boats have helped evacuate Jakarta residents stranded in severe floods that have killed 29, as the number left homeless approached 350,000.
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Rescue staff save the newest member of one of the endangered indigenous tribes in the tsunami-struck Andaman islands.
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Survivors lasted a fourth day without food and water as nations and aid agencies struggled to bring the relief effort together.
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Rescuers began reaching  India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands on Tuesday, two days  after passage of a devastating tsunami, to find barely a third  of residents on one were still alive.
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Philippine rescuers dug deeper through the ruins of a storm-battered building in hopes of finding more survivors after four people trapped for 11 days were pulled alive from the rubble.
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MANILA, Philippines  - The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to at least 348 with 150 others missing Tuesday, most in a region still reeling from a deadly typhoon.
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REAL, Philippines  - Philippine rescuers were frantically digging for more survivors after four people, including a toddler, were pulled alive from a building crushed by a landslide 11 days ago.
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Nine emaciated survivors of the Asian tsunami are found on an Indian island, 38 days after the disaster.
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Thousands of tsunami victims  on India&#39;s remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago are still  living in temporary shelters almost three years after the  devastating December 2004 tsunami washed away their homes.
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Tsunami survivors on the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales Thursday of going without food after fleeing mammoth waves that smashed their villages