U.N. Notes Delays in Tsunami Aid Arrival
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United Nations officials acknowledged it will take days before tons of food, medicine and portable hospitals reaches tsunami survivors in devastated areas across Asia.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - Heavy rains and fresh floods  disrupted aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages Sunday as the U.N.  refugee agency started a 400-tonairlift as part of a $2 billion  relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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Tens of thousands of people have  probably died in Indonesia's western Sumatra and Aceh Province  or will perish before relief workers can reach them, a senior  U.N. official said Monday.
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health care, the United Nations health agency said Thursday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as  the world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for victims in  South Asia, U.N. officials said on Saturday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 8 -- The United Nations has delayed the release of a quarterly report on human rights in Iraq to avoid criticizing Washington and Baghdad while they are seeking to rally congressional and international support for the war effort, according to U.N. officials.
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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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Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted  aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the U.N.  refugee agency started a 400-tonairlift as part of a $2 billion  relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations put  the latest death toll in Asia's tsunami at around 150,000 and  warned it could still soar as relief workers were confronted by  huge devastated areas without roads, bridges and airstrips.
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The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries hit by tsunami wave devastation on Sunday as governments and aid groups sent money and rescuers to answer desperate pleas for help.
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Countries across the globe were yesterday responding to the massive tsunami catastrophe in south Asia as United Nations officials warned that it would require the world&#39;s biggest ever aid
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Leaders in the international tsunami aid effort expressed concern about how curbs on the movement of workers and a deadline for foreign troops to leave would affect relief in Indonesia's worst-hit Aceh province.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries worst hit by the tsunami wave devastation as governments and aid groups sent money and emergency specialists to answer desperate pleas for help.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka  - U.N. Secretary-General  Kofi Annan saw the scars on Saturday that the tsunami left in  Sri Lanka, where lives are in ruins but where hard work and  outside help have started to make a difference.
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The promised U.S. relief for South  Asia's tsunami crisis is "miserly," and a U.N. official who  criticized Western nations for not giving enough aid to the  needy was "right on target," The New York Times said in an  editorial on Thursday.
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The United Nations is adopting  new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard  against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food  program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.
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The international response to a  catastrophic tsunami in Asia has been quick and generous, a  senior U.N. official said on Tuesday, playing down his earlier  comments that wealthy nations were stingy.