Transportation problems stall many rescue efforts
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Among the green tents and tarp shelters hurriedly thrown up on the outskirts of this city, the only medical attention offered Wednesday to thousands of refugees from
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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REAL, Philippines -- Rescuers are battling to reach thousands of people left stranded in the Philippines, where storms have left 1,000 people dead or missing.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts on Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea.
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A major snowstorm was moving through  the U.S. Midwest causing transportation hang-ups, making it  difficult to move grain and livestock to terminal markets, a  private forecaster said on Tuesday.
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Thanksgiving Eve travelers were slowed by snow-covered highways in the Midwest and thunderstorms in the South on Wednesday, as millions of people took to cars, buses, trains and airlines.
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Bombed-out roads and traffic jams slowed the delivery of humanitarian relief to south Lebanon after Monday's cease-fire, and many aid workers were stuck on roads alongside the refugees they were trying to help.
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An effort to provide U.S.-made military transport planes to NATO nations stalled Thursday as allied countries said they needed more time to review the plan.
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Flooding causes cancellation of train services and problems on the roads
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Holiday travelers were stuck with long waits for flights at several major airports Wednesday as severe weather hit the eastern half of the United States.
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The four-in-a-row hurricanes that have disrupted lives across Florida have also delayed life's final journey for many. Funerals have been put off for weeks in some places because the ground is too soggy for burials or because scattered family members cannot be assembled.
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Recovery and aid efforts are daunting challenges throughout much of Asia in the wake of Sunday&#39;s tsunami, but in Sri Lanka and Sumatra&#39;s Aceh province those tasks are severely complicated by years of unrest.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and ecologically fragile wildlife refuge in the Aleutian Islands.
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For thousands of airline passengers, it took days for their bags to be delivered after a shortage of baggage handlers at US Airways, a computer problem at Comair and snowstorms disrupted holiday travel.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rescue workers raced to  get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on Tuesday,  and struggled to clear airport runways to fly aid into regions  where giant waves washed roads away as well as people.
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PARIS: Governments and aid organisations around the world scrambled to offer aid and technical help after the devastating quake and tidal waves that killed thousands of people in Asia on Sunday.
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His eyes nearly in tears from the crush of fellow travelers at Guangzhou's train station, Hong Tao said things were much better today, after days of waiting for a train to his home in Hubei province. A rare winter storm has paralyzed China's transportation system as millions tried to get home to celebrate the Lunar New Year.