Rain, Flooding Hinders Asia's Tsunami Relief
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Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the U.N. refugee agency started a 400-ton airlift as part of a &#36;2 billion relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - The $2 billion Asian tsunami  relief operation was encountering chaos and "a wall of  devastation" in Indonesia as aid workers struggled to help  thousands of survivors huddled in makeshift camps Monday.
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Desperate relief workers are struggling to get food and water to the millions of Asia's tsunami victims facing starvation and disease as the death toll passes 125,000, from what the UN has called "an unprecedented global catastrophe".
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world pumped aid into  the tsunami zone around south Asia on Friday in a frantic race  to save millions of survivors from dehydration and disease, and  stop a terrifying death count from climbing.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster ticked relentlessly upward to top 125,000 as clocks ticked down to a desolate new year in countries struggling to get food and water to millions facing starvation and disease.
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Relief officials are working feverishly to deliver food, water and medical supplies to parts of southern Asia hard-hit by Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia on Saturday, as aid workers, troops  and grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of  rotting corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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Buddhist monks handed out rice and curry parcels to grieving tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka and aircraft dropped food to isolated Indonesian towns on Wednesday as Asia&#39;s disaster relief operation struggled to kick in.
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Heavy rain and flooding are seriously hampering the tsunami relief operation in eastern Sri Lanka.
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The &#36;2 billion Asian tsunami relief operation was encountering chaos and "a wall of devastation" in Indonesia as aid workers struggled to help thousands of survivors huddled in makeshift camps Monday.
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The death toll from last month's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rose towards a quarter of a million while floods hampered relief efforts in worst-hit Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Scenes of devastation have confronted aid teams as they arrived in Asia&#39;s isolated tsunami-hit areas, with entire towns destroyed and up to 5 million people in desperate need of food and water.
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WASHINGTON -- For the two regions hardest hit by the Asian tsunamis, international relief efforts are being complicated by more than the rising death tolls and physical devastation: They are also war zones.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A helicopter crash and a  powerful tremor in Indonesia on Monday briefly hindered aid  operations for tsunami victims.
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BEIJING, Dec. 29 -- International relief continues to flow into areas affected by Sunday&#39;s tsunami. The Red Cross is shifting over 100 metric tons of emergency supplies from Kenya to Sri Lanka, the country hardest hit by the tidal waves.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Refugees in Indonesia's  tsunami-devastated Aceh province woke up on New Year's Day to a  depressing rain, but there were signs that critically needed  aid was finally starting to reach them.
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Buddhist monks handed out rice and  curry parcels to grieving tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka and  aircraft dropped food to isolated Indonesian towns on Wednesday  as Asia's disaster relief operation struggled to kick in.