Thousands of tents were set up throughout the stricken region, and tens of thousands of cans of food were distributed, Iranian officials said.
And while there's no doubt that the roads in the Sandy-stricken region are slick, it's also clear that the critical work of recovery continues.
His poverty-stricken region suffers regular power cuts and other miseries.
Glickman, who visited the drought-stricken region earlier this week, criticized the 1996 farm bill as being inadequate for dealing with situations such as those faced by North Texas farmers and ranchers.
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Countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt have dispatched planeloads of aid to the stricken region but also lobbied to ensure that the UN Security Council refrained from threatening sanctions against the Sudanese regime, which is largely responsible for creating the mess.
President Bush today announced that more than 7, 000 active-duty military troops will arrive in the stricken Gulf region over the next three days.
Some 50 pages are devoted to a series of articles written in 1939, "The Misery of Kabylia, " detailing life in the famine-stricken northern region.
Moscow refuses to negotiate with Muslim rebels in war torn Chechnya, from which violence is spilling into the country's poverty stricken North Caucuses Region.
Because a once-proud, dynamic culture in the forefront of world civilizations, and still carrying a message of their own superiority to "infidels" today, is painfully visible to the whole world as a poverty-stricken and backward region, lagging far behind in virtually every field of human endeavor.
Aid and power supplies remained patchy in the northern region of Japan stricken by an earthquake and tsunami.
Often, the future of entire families is in the balance as these Roma, among the most poverty-stricken people in a deeply impoverished region, seek to forge mutually beneficial unions that will help them weather Bulgaria's brutal economic downturn.
The draft agreement would give the leaders of the Bangsamoro more political and economic powers, promises the people a "just and equitable share" of the region's abundant natural resources, and pledges to address the needs of poverty-stricken communities.
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