Relief Delivery Lags as Deaths Pass 140,000
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The vanguard of a relief effort converged on the stricken nations as millions of survivors grew increasingly desperate.
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Officials said more than 14,000 people were killed in nine countries in southern Asia and Africa after massive tsunami waves smashed coastlines Sunday morning. A breakdown of the toll so far:
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Basic supplies have not reached many parts of quake-ravaged Indonesia,  where the death toll is now 52,000.
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Relief workers battled rain and choppy seas Tuesday to deliver food and medicine to the country&#39;s northeast, while officials raised the death toll from last week&#39;s back-to-back storms to at least 740 people.
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REAL, Philippines  - The Philippines put the toll  at more than 1,000 dead or missing in four storms in two weeks  but, even with a break in the weather on Saturday, relief  supplies were running short and fears of disease were  spreading.
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World leaders tried to put $4 billion  in aid pledged for tsunami survivors to work on Thursday, the  urgency of their task conveyed in a chilling warning that the  death toll could double without quick action to prevent  disease.
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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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Food and relief supplies clogged airports across Asia, as the death count from Sunday&#39;s tsunami leapt to more than 114,000 in 12 nations.
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The relief effort moves in fits and starts in 11 nations where infrastructure has been destroyed and disease looms. By Chris Brummitt / Associated Press.
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Relief efforts in the Philippines faced delays Sunday for survivors of Typhoon Durian, as fears grew of a rising death toll in the archipelago nation from last week's storm.
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The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Indian Ocean nations rose to nearly 220,000 with another 50,000 deaths being reported by Indonesia's health ministry.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to deliver food and water to millions of  tsunami victims and the United Nations warned a death toll of  150,000 would climb as more bodies are found and disease stalks  survivors.
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US troops and relief workers airdropped more food to the millions of people left homeless and hungry from Asia's tsunami disaster, as the death toll from the tragedy crept towards 150,000.
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As victim tolls climbed to over 150,000 Wednesday, historic levels of financial and humanitarian aid has entered into the 11 countries devastated by the tsunami disaster.
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Relief supplies were arriving in south Asia Wednesday, but getting them where they&#39;re needed the most is proving to be a challenge.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- With health officials warning that the death toll of more than 150,000 from last month's tsunami could jump sharply without a continual supply of aid, world leaders struggled yesterday to figure out the best way to help victims -- and to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again.