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• Indonesia plane inferno kills 21

  - 2007-03-06

  YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia AFP — An Indonesian airliner with more than 130 people aboard burst into flames and shot off the runway Wednesday after landing in Yogyakarta city, killing at least 21 people, officials said. Witnesses and survivors described a horrific inferno that swept through the Boeing 737-400 of state...

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• Indonesia scraps foreign troop pull-out deadline

  - 2005-01-16

  MEULABOH, Indonesia AFP — Foreign forces including the US Navy can continue tsunami relief operations in Indonesia beyond a March 26 deadline, the government said as the disaster's overall death toll topped 168,000. In Thailand the leaders of Canada, Sweden, Norway and Finland, which all lost citizens in the...

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• US hopes relief effort will boost image among Muslims: Powell

  - 2005-01-04

  JAKARTA AFP — US Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed confidence his country's efforts to aid victims of the Asian tsunami disaster would boost America's battered image in the Muslim world. Powell made his remarks after arriving in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, on the second leg...

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• After delay, US boosting relief, logistical help for tsunami victims

  - 2005-01-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States, after a slow reaction to the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, has stepped up its aid to victims with more cash and logistical support, and is sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to assess recovery needs. US President George W. Bush was...

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• Powell travels to Asia to survey tsunami damage

  - 2005-01-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — Secretary of State Colin Powell departed Washington for Asia, leading a US delegation which will survey the devastation from last week's tsunamis, which relief officials said killed more than 150,000 people. Accompanying Powell on the trip is the brother of US President George W. Bush, Florida...

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• Tsunami survivors wait for help as international solidarity soars

  - 2005-01-02

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia AFP — Relief teams are rushing to bring more food and water to millions of people left homeless and hungry after Asia's devastating tsunamis, but aid workers warned time was not on their side. International donations continued to flood in as US Secretary of State Colin...

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• 'Biggest relief effort ever' as Asian disaster toll approaches 28,000

  - 2004-12-28

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia AFP — The biggest humanitarian relief operation ever mounted was under way along Asia's devastated shores as the death toll from a massive earthquake and the tidal waves it unleashed approached 28,000, amid fears it could rise much higher. With the scale of the catastrophe still...

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• Asian disaster toll surges past 55,000 as relief operations stall

  - 2004-12-28

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia AFP — Logistical problems hampered a massive humanitarian relief operation along Asia's devastated shores as the death toll from a huge earthquake and killer tidal waves surged past 55,000. With the scale of the catastrophe rapidly unfolding, the confirmed number of dead in 10 countries shot...

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