World focuses on tsunami victims, paying little heed to suffering in Congo
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WASHINGTON  - The skies over Asia are being darkened these days by an abundance of relief-bearing cargo planes, reflecting the huge outpouring of international sympathy and support in response to the tsunami crisis.
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The UN highlights the plight of children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, some of whose lives are at risk.
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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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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work together more closely to help victims of one of the worst natural disasters in living memory as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared they were in a "race against time."
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Foreign aid started to pour in with 16 countries pledging assistance to the stricken victims in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka, local media reported Wednesday.
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Thousands of people were killed and millions made homeless by recent tsunamis in southeastern Asia. The American Red Cross has set up a disaster relief fund.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan tours  the tsunami's wreckage in Sri Lanka on Saturday, where lives  are still in ruins but where hard work and outside help have  started to make a difference.
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Joint tsunami efforts have spurred calls to mend military ties limited by human rights concerns.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- A week after an earthquake and tsunami ripped through this city, a woman picks her way over a mountain of debris searching for something to feed her chicken. A man carries a salvaged carpet on his back. People sweep flooded foyers, just a few yards away from where a dead man wrapped in aluminum siding lies by ...
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International efforts to aid desperate  victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up  pace, said U.N. officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions  that the response had been slow.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Three weeks after the  Asian tsunami, people near and far paused to remember the dead  but hundreds of bodies rotting by the sea showed how much still  has to be done to make life bearable for survivors.
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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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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a few desperate people scavenging a beach for food.
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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 efforts  picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that  killed more than 5,700 people on Indonesia&#039;s Java island, but  many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was &quot;unprecedented&quot; devastation wrought by tidal
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to  mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.