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Australia boosts wheat forecast following long-awaited rain SYDNEY (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 Australia's monopoly wheat exporter boosted its forecast for this year's crop output on Wednesday by two million tonnes following good rainfall in drought-affected growing areas. Quake survivors in Indian Kashmir still left out in the cold URI, India (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 Indian quake survivor Altaf Hussein's patience has worn thin. Every day for the past 10 days he has queued for kerosene from government trucks, and every day he has gone back empty-handed. Free trans-border phone calls fail to end agony of Kashmiris SRINAGAR, India (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 The fortunate ones hear the voice of a relative in quake-hit Pakistani-administered Kashmir answering the telephone and saying all is well. The unlucky ones just get a constant ringing -- if anything at all. |
For crushed Pakistan family, aid remains out of reach NEELUM VALLEY, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 On the eve of a UN conference to speed up aid for Pakistani earthquake survivors, Bashir Kiani is mixing cement at a graveyard for 61 relatives and friends who perished on October 8. UN to urge donors to speed up Pakistan quake aid GENEVA (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will meet senior officials and ministers from at least 65 donor countries Wednesday to urge them speed up the relief effort for earthquake victims in Pakistan. Throngs wait for aid after Wilma knocks out power in Florida MIAMI, Florida (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 Frustrated throngs waited in huge lines for ice and water in Florida Tuesday after Hurricane Wilma crushed the southern US state, knocking out power to six million people and killing at least four. |
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World Bank unveils 470 mln dlr package for quake-hit Pakistan WASHINGTON (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 The World Bank announced Tuesday a 470 million dollar package to help Pakistan rebuild areas hit by a massive earthquake. Asia-press-comment HONG KONG, Oct 26 (AFP) - The following is a selection of HONG KONG (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 The following is a selection of comments from the editorial pages of newspapers around Asia. The views expressed are those of the newspapers concerned. Cubans dig out after Wilma, many with lights out SANTA FE, Cuba (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 Cubans began cleaning up after waters that Hurricane Wilma slopped over sea walls and into cities began to recede on Tuesday, although many towns were without power. |
Floridians clean up after Wilma's thrashing NAPLES, Florida (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 From coast to coast, Floridians cleaned up streets littered with fallen branches and received emergency supplies Tuesday after Hurricane Wilma violently sliced across their southern state. Outages, looting hamper recovery in Hurricane Wilma's deadly path MIAMI, Florida (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 Massive power outages and curfews to prevent looting slowed recovery efforts Tuesday along the path of deadly Hurricane Wilma, which blasted through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Cuba and Florida with intense winds and rains over the last five days. Red Cross sounds alarm over Aceh polio outbreak GENEVA (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 A three-pronged attack is needed to contain an outbreak of the child-cripping polio disease in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province, the Red Cross said Tuesday. |
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