Tsunami 'Core Group' of Relief Nations Disbanded
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An effort by the United States, Japan, India and Australia to coordinate tsunami relief will be disbanded and folded into the broader U.N.-led operations, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Countries large and small mobilized yesterday in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunamis that spread devastation across South and Southeast Asia, but international officials said the millions of dollars in short-term assistance pledged so far fall way short of the billions needed to address one of the worst natural disasters in memory.
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was "unprecedented" devastation wrought by tidal waves and a massive earthquake that killed tens of thousands in southern Asia.
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Aid for the countries hit by the Indian Ocean tsunamis is at risk of not reaching people, relief agencies say.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Officials from dozens of Asian  nations including India, Indonesia and Thailand failed on  Friday to agree who should run a regional tsunami warning  system, officials said, dashing hopes for its quick  establishment.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Residents fled coasts in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, heeding hollow warnings of new tsunamis Thursday, as pilots in Indonesia dropped food to remote villages yet to be visited by outsiders four days after the region&#39;s quake-and
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Delegates at a conference in Thailand decided Saturday to create several regional tsunami warning centers around southern Asia that would protect the area from killer waves, a U.N. official said.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A day after a tsunami killed at least 24,500 people in 10 countries, governments of nations along the Indian Ocean began to consider a comprehensive warning system Monday so that lives can be saved in future natural disasters.
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Global efforts to assist victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami are zeroing in on isolated parts of Sumatra where hundreds of thousands of people may still need emergency aid, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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The tsunami that crashed into  coastlines across southern Asia is likely to present the United  Nations with its biggest and costliest relief effort, the U.N.  emergency relief coordinator said on Monday.
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The US, Australia, Japan and India will form an international coalition to lead relief efforts after the Indian Ocean sea surges, the US president has said.
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The tsunami that struck over the weekend spread a ring of destruction through nearly a dozen countries. Those are the places most directly affected, and on a calamitous scale.
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ACEH BESAR, Indonesia -- The United Nations has banned its staff from traveling in parts of tsunami-battered Aceh province because of reported fighting between Indonesian troops and separatist rebels. But a rebel commander yesterday begged foreign aid workers to stay and promised that guerrillas will not attack relief groups.
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Global efforts to assist victims  of the Indian Ocean tsunami are zeroing in on isolated parts of  Sumatra where hundreds of thousands of people may still need  emergency aid, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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At least 3,000 people died in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and 30,000 people are missing after five villages in the archipelago's south were swept away by a tsunami, officials said.
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An effort by the United States, Japan,  India and Australia to coordinate tsunami relief will be  disbanded and folded into the broader U.N.-led operations,  Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday.
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The United Nations has received $500 million in pledges of assistance for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Half of the total came in one chunk from the World Bank.