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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -AFP 2-1-2005 <\/SPAN> BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -AFPAid pledges for Asia’s tsunami victims reached two billion dollars on a tide of New Year sympathy, but the United Nations warned it would take weeks for help to reach many survivors and that the death toll would likely rise to 150,000.While the confirmed death toll from the catastrophe edged towards 126,000, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/SPAN>Aid pledges for Asia’s tsunami victims reached two billion dollars on a tide of New Year sympathy, but the United Nations warned it would take weeks for help to reach many survivors and that the death toll would likely rise to 150,000.
While the confirmed death toll from the catastrophe edged towards 126,000, relief work was stalled by flash floods that submerged at least 15 camps in <\/SPAN>
As the scale of the damage became clearer, the World Health Organisation acknowledged that the first signs of potentially deadly diseases had emerged in <\/SPAN>
Jan Egeland, the UN undersecretary general for emergency relief, said pledges had been recorded of two billion dollars, although another official said that figure was an approximation, after <\/SPAN>
As relief operations gathered steam, US Navy helicopters bringing emergency rations to worst-hit <\/SPAN>
“Immediately channel this aid,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told soldiers as he surveyed a major backlog of aid that has built up at the airport in Banda Aceh, the nearly levelled capital of Aceh province.
“Do your duties as well as possible, day and night. We have the obligation to save each and every one,” Yudhoyono said.
UN’s Egeland told reporters at UN headquarters in <\/SPAN>
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“Many victims survived the flooding but they suffered lung diseases because they swallowed foreign particles,” Indonesian Red Crescent team leader for Aceh Agoes Kooshartoro told AFP. “Over the past five days many people have died because of this. They survived the waves but they died of infections.”
The WHO has also noted outbreaks in <\/SPAN>
“There are increasing reports of diarrhoeal disease outbreaks coming from displaced persons’ settlements in <\/SPAN>
President George W. Bush, facing allegations at home and abroad that the <\/SPAN>
“On this first day of a new year, we join the world in feeling enormous sadness over a great human tragedy,” Bush said in his weekly radio address Saturday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for a long-term international effort to help overcome the tsunami tragedy in <\/SPAN>
“At first it seemed a terrible disaster, a terrible tragedy. But I think as the days have gone on, people have recognised it as a global catastrophe,” Blair said in his first public response to the natural disaster.
Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit <\/SPAN>
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan told a <\/SPAN>
“I will go to <\/SPAN>
New Year’s celebrations in much of the world were muted or transformed into fund-raisers, with <\/SPAN>
The prime ministers of <\/SPAN>
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“It is at times like this that the best in us comes out and the human spirit transcends all adversity,” Singh said in a national press advertising campaign launched Saturday.
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A heavy rain hit the death-stained streets of Banda Aceh Saturday, in what some saw as a symbol.
“This is a cleansing the soil of Aceh from everything that is unclean,” said Lukman bin Sulaiman, 50, a pedicab driver, looking up at the persistent drizzle. “I hope that Aceh can now return to the good times.”
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s office said nearly 14,000 people were missing in the island, which could push its official death toll to more than 42,000.
But the UN’s Egeland said the true figure across <\/SPAN>
“What we see is that the figures may be approaching 150,000 dead. The vast majority of those are in <\/SPAN>
Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said officials would start giving only general estimates on the death toll as it was too high to be exact.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said <\/SPAN>
“We expect to find more corpses as everywhere we went we found bodies,” Thaksin said, wishing Thais a happier 2005 after a year dogged by misfortune.<\/SPAN>
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