Oxfam sees 1.8 million Pakistanis at risk in quake zone
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At least 1.8 million people living in makeshift shelters and tents are at risk from the Himalayan winter a year after an earthquake ravaged northern Pakistan, the international aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday.
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The Red Cross federation, the world's  biggest humanitarian group, said Wednesday it had raised a  record $1.167 billion in just 30 days for victims of the Asian  tsunami, enough to fund a 10-year recovery plan.
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Oxfam relief is loaded onto a plane headed to the worst hit areas of Thailand. AS THE UK slept off the excesses of a crisply-cold Christmas, the normally quiet offices of the British Geological Survey in ...
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan  - The Islamic fasting   month of Ramadan began in somber mood in northern Pakistan on   Monday, nearly a year after an earthquake struck the   mountainous region, killing 73,000 people.
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A new humanitarian catastrophe like the one in Darfur could hit Chad, UK aid agency Oxfam warns.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf asked the international aid community on Thursday for an extra $800 million to cover reconstruction costs after a devastating earthquake a year ago.
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Britain will use its presidency of the Group of Eight nations from next month to help the victims of the Asia earthquake disaster ``in any way we can,&#39;&#39; the Financial Times said, citing Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s New Year message.
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An estimated 2 million people in Asia are at risk of sinking deeper into poverty as a result of the Dec. 26 tsunami and its aftermath, with the harshest long-term economic damage expected in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, according to a study by the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan -- After a powerful earthquake struck Pakistan and India a year ago, one of the biggest fears was for the more than 3 million newly homeless facing the onset of the Himalayan winter.
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Dozens of girls have been skipping school in this Pakistani Kashmir mountain town, but neither bullies nor boredom is to blame. Teachers say pupils fear being crushed in an earthquake like the one that killed 80,000 people one year ago Sunday.
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Governments and individuals across the world were digging into their pockets on Thursday to help the millions of victims of the killer waves that struck southern Asia, as the UN said well over one billion dollars would be needed.
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SOMALIA and tourist paradise Seychelles appealed for aid today after heavy seas whipped up by the Asian earthquake killed at least 50 people thousands of kilometres away in Africa.
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The earthquake and tidal wave that raced across southeast Asia to east Africa and killed thousands of people may be the costliest disaster in history, reaching billions of dollars, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said Monday.
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Over a million Bangladeshi children will face acute malnutrition if immediate actions are not taken during post-flood rehabilitation efforts, two UN agencies warned yesterday.
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At least a million people in South Asia's Bay of Bengal could be swept to their deaths by a tsunami if a giant earthquake hits off the coast of Myanmar, according to a study published Thursday.
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The number of victims of the  Asian tsunami needing food stands at 1.8 million and could rise  further, a United Nations official said on Sunday.
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The number of people killed in the massive earthquake and tidal waves that hit Indian Ocean shorelines a week ago passed 144,000.