Buddhist Monks, Planes Deliver Tsunami Aid
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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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Millions of origami paper cranes yesterday rained down upon Thailand&#39;s three violence-torn southern provinces in an extravagant government-sponsored gesture aimed at bringing peace to the predominantly Muslim region.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to  mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for a major logistical  operation to help a half-dozen countries shattered by Sunday's  tsunami, which by the latest count had killed 124,622.
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Britain is to send two Royal Navy ships and a military cargo plane to help relief efforts following the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, officials in London said.
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The international community has pledged more than &#36;250 million in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami that devastated coastlines from south Asia to east Africa, with planeloads of supplies leaving Britain and France on Wednesday.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - A week after a deadly tsunami  swept away thousands of lives along Thailand's tropical  coastline, people prayed for the victims in special church  services Sunday and spoke of putting the tragedy behind them.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - Heavy rains and fresh floods  disrupted aid deliveries to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on  Sunday, just as a global $2 billion relief operation started to  kick in a week after walls of water left millions struggling to  survive.
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Medan (Indonesia), Dec. 31 : Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean today, but tonnes of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports.
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At the Indonesian military's primary airfield here, cartons of instant noodles, bottled water and medicine were stacked high inside a hangar Wednesday, awaiting delivery to camps filled with desperate tsunami victims. Two Australian military transport planes landed with more water, military rations and medicine, adding to a mountain of assistance marshaled at the base.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Kegalle Panangarama, a Buddhist monk and community leader, expressed frustration as he outlined the obstacles plaguing local recovery efforts in his tsunami-wrecked region.
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A plane carrying 250 tents and 5,000 plastic sheets for shelter left Gatwick for Sri Lanka yesterday as part of a huge relief effort led by governments and charities.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Rescue flights from throughout the world delivered supplies for millions of survivors around South Asia yesterday, but disorganization blocked the lifesaving food, water, and medicine from reaching many of those stricken and in need.
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The U.S. military is delivering tens of thousands of pounds of relief supplies to southeast Asia, drawing on a worldwide network of ships, planes and other resources in its largest humanitarian mission in decades.
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Relief organizations arriving in Asia&#39;s isolated tsunami-hit areas to bring in much-needed food and medical supplies say the needs are even greater than at first thought.
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Asian telecommunication carriers are mobilizing to help those affected by the weekend's devastating earthquakes off Indonesia and subsequent tsunami waves.
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The world's biggest-ever aid operation got into gear to help Asian countries stricken by tsunamis that smashed coastal towns leaving misery and the risk of disease in their wake.
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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.