UN offers Pakistan aid as 600 die in South Asia rains
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The United Nations and other agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan Monday after floods unleashed by a cyclone and days of torrential rain left 1.5 million people devastated.
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Severe flooding and avalanches have killed around 350 people in Pakistan, officials said after a week of torrential rain and heavy snow, while 2,000 others were missing and tens of thousands left homeless.
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International aid efforts got under way today, with private, government and UN aid teams heading to southern Asian countries devastated by tidal waves after the region was rocked by the world - s most powerful ...
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More than 50 people were killed after a dam burst in remote southwest Pakistan following the country's heaviest rains in more than a decade, officials from Baluchistan province told Reuters on Friday.
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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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Officials yesterday sought international help to rebuild villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 566 persons dead and 546 missing in mostly poor northern agricultural regions.
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At least 50 people were killed and hundreds missing in Pakistan after a dam burst and swept whole villages into the sea, officials said, as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112.
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Pakistan launched a huge relief operation for some 20,000 people affected by torrential rains in the southwest, as floods and avalanches pushed the death toll over 260 nationwide, officials said on Saturday.
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killed up to 600 people in a part of the northern Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon in just over 24 hours. forced to carry supplies on foot after roads were cut off and bad weather grounded rescue helicopters.
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Almost 10,600 people were killed by the Boxing Day tidal wave in the Tamil Tiger-controlled area of north eastern Sri Lanka, an aid worker said today.
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The UN urges the international community to come up with more aid for flood victims in Bangladesh.
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At least 50 people were killed and hundreds missing in Pakistan after a dam burst and swept whole villages into the sea as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112.
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More than 250 people died in floods and mudslides in Haiti caused by the tropical storm Jeanne over the weekend, the United Nations said yesterday.
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Scores of people are killed by heavy rains and snow across Pakistan including 22 in a dam burst.
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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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At least 43 people were killed and more than 400 are missing in a remote area of southwestern Pakistan after heavy rains caused a large dam to burst, sweeping villagers into the Arabian Sea, officials said Friday.
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The United States on Tuesday  dispatched about 600 Marines and Navy personnel from Okinawa to  help residents in the flood-ravaged Philippines. The Pentagon  said tents, water and medical supplies also were being sent.