Mauritania Red Crescent sends aid to ship
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The Mauritanian Red Crescent delivered a ton of emergency humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of illegal immigrants stranded on a ship off the West African coast.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - An Iraqi Red Crescent aid convoy  waiting at the edge of Falluja will not be allowed to enter the  city center on Sunday, a U.S. Marine officer said.
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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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The French helicopter-carrier Jeanne D'Arc was heading for northern Indonesia on a mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the tsunami-hit town of Meulaboh.
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The global Red Cross issued an emergency  appeal for immediate aid to hundreds of thousands of people  stricken by tsunamis that pummeled coastal communities in  southern Asia on Sunday.
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The government of Mauritania is appealing to international donors to help it reverse a food shortage affecting more than 1 million people.
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A ship carrying hundreds of migrants, which has spent a week off the coast of Mauritania, is due to dock.
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Mauritania agrees to let a stricken ship carrying several hundred migrants ashore, the Spanish government says.
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A Red Crescent convoy of emergency supplies has entered Fallujah amid fears of a growing humanitarian crisis in the Iraqi battle zone as a massive US led offensive against rebels entered its sixth day.
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Cargo planes touched down with promised aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week's quake-tsunami catastrophe. The first Indonesian military teams reached the devastated west coast of Sumatra island, finding thousands of bodies and hiking southern Asia's death toll to more than 67,000.
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Volunteers are being brought in to help clean beaches littered with debris from a grounded cargo ship off the Devon coast.
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Scores of migrants who spent days at sea were missing and feared dead Sunday after their boat wrecked off Senegal's coast, the Red Cross said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A Red Crescent aid convoy tried  to reach desperate civilians trapped by a five-day-old U.S.  assault on rebels in Falluja Saturday, while insurgents took  charge of swathes of Iraq's third city, Mosul.
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A U.S. Navy vessel arrived in Bangladesh on Friday to help relief efforts after the country's deadliest cyclone in 16 years killed around 3,500 people and left thousands missing or injured.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: UN peacekeepers beefed up security today in the Haitian city of Gonaives where more than 1000 people died in floods, after desperate survivors fought each other to get at emergency food supplies.
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A ship carrying 3,000 tonnes of food is to dock in Mozambique where flood waters have displaced tens of thousands.
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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.