US aid enters Indonesia
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- After the devastation wreaked by the seas, a deluge from the skies deepened the misery for tsunami-stricken areas yesterday, triggering flash floods in Sri Lanka that sent evacuees fleeing and increasing the threat of deadly disease as survivors shivered in relief centers. The death toll was likely to hit 150,000.
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The United States further increased its aid commitment to South and East Asian countries affected by Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunami disaster to $35 million.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. forces prepared to  start winding down their huge tsunami relief effort while  donors pledged $1.7 billion to help badly hit Indonesia recover  from a calamity which cost 226,000 lives across Asia.
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One of the largest U.S. military relief operations in history helped speed the pace of aid to desperate victims of Asia's tsunami disaster Sunday, delivering critical supplies to haggard survivors in severe need of food and water.
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A first RAF aid plane has delivered 50 tonnes of supplies to Indonesia, the country worst hit by the Asian tsunami.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and  world leaders arrived in Jakarta on Wednesday to try to deal  with Asia's tsunami crisis and a $2.3 billion humanitarian  relief operation, the biggest since World War II.
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US President George W Bush seeks to boost US aid to the tsunami-hit nations to a total of $950m (Â£511m).
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A US helicopter on a relief operation crashed in a rice paddy near Banda Aceh's airport, injuring at least two US servicemen and causing the military to briefly suspend flights today, while strong aftershocks and security concerns provided more challenges for aid workers two weeks after the disaster hit.
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The United States expects to provide an initial $15 million in aid for victims of the devastating tsunami in Asia and has already released $400,000, the assistant administrator of the US Agency for International Development said
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - 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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Indonesia urges the US to provide access to terror suspect Hambali, now known to be in Guantanamo Bay.
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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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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush, under pressure  over the pace and size of American aid to Asian tsunami  victims, dramatically raised U.S. assistance to the region on  Friday to $350 million from $35 million.
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The United States upped its tsunami relief aid tenfold Friday as the world's ships and planes converged on devastated shores. Bottlenecks of supplies built up, fears of epidemics grew, and in an echo of 9/11's aftermath, people at a Thai resort scoured a bulletin board of 4,000 photos in search of the dead and missing.
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Cargo planes touched down with aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week's quake-tsunami catastrophe. The first Indonesian military teams reached the devastated west coast of Sumatra island, finding thousands of bodies and increasing the death toll across 12 nations to nearly 77,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - 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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The U.S. government is offering to help Asian nations struck by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunamis. At least three Americans were among the more than 13,000 people killed.