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The American Muslims for Emergency and Relief, Inc. (AMER) is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. To further its Purpose of existence, the organization will offer direct and indirect services/assistance to needy individuals, families, or communities (both domestically and International) in close coordination with federal, State, or local government; and local faith and community based Organizations utilizing public, private, and individual resources. These services and assistance may include relief and recovery efforts, food distribution, disaster mitigation, housing, volunteer assistance, education and skills training, employment, children and elderly services, prevention and intervention services, and assistance.
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| Earthquake Rocks Southeastern Iran |
 A relatively strong earthquake rocked southeastern Iran, Saturday, a day after a 5.7 magnitude quake shook a northeastern province, injuring at least 170 people.
Iranian state media say Saturday's quake had a 5.7 magnitude. The U.S. Geological Survey says it had a magnitude of 5.3.
The quake jolted the Negar region of Kerman province around mid-morning, local time. There have been no reports of damage or injuries.
The U.S. Geological Survey says Friday's quake was centered near the northeastern city of Torbat-e-Heydariyeh.
Iran is located on major seismic fault lines.
The worst recent quake in Iran occurred in 2003, killing about 30,000 people and destroying much of the ancient southern city of Bam.
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Amerelief on July 31 2010 12:03:08 ·
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| Floods trap thousands in Pakistan |
 Eight hundred people are now known to have been killed in the worst floods in Pakistan's history as rescue workers attempted to reach thousands of people stranded by torrential monsoon rains.
More than a million people had been affected by the floods on Saturday. Bloated rivers have washed away villages and triggered devastating landslides throughout the northwest of the country.
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Amerelief on July 31 2010 10:06:04
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| Ships ready to leave BP leaky well as storm brews |
BY HARRY WEBER AND COLLEEN LONG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill.
Though the rough weather was hundreds of miles from the spill site and wouldn't enter the Gulf for at least a few more days, officials ordered technicians trying to plug BP's well to stand down because they needed several days to clear the area. Anxiety built among the 75-member crew aboard the cutter Decisive, the Coast Guard's primary search and rescue vessel that would be the last of about 65 ships to leave in the event of an evacuation.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/22/1741808/ships-ready-to-leave-bp-leaky.html#ixzz0uQ5x7vPQ
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Amerelief on July 22 2010 09:05:42
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| IMF cancels Haiti's $268m debt |
 The International Monetary Fund has cancelled Haiti's $268m debt and approved a new loan worth $60m to boost international reserves in the earthquake-devastated nation. The IMF said in a statement on Wednesday that both steps will help Haiti's reconstruction efforts following the devastating January 12 quake, which destroyed the capital Port-au-Prince and left 1.5 million people homeless. |
Amerelief on July 22 2010 09:00:48
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| In Haiti's tent cities, a return to normalcy is unimaginable |
 BY FRED GRIMM fgrimm@MiamiHerald.comPORT-AU-PRINCE -- The concept of temporary, amid Haiti's teeming refugee camps, has morphed into a dismal variation of forever.
A deluge of earthquake victims, shocked and terrified, spilled out of the city's ruins after the disaster and found refuge in parks, school yards, soccer pitches, garden patches, almost any private or public space they could find in their tumbled down city.
Their flimsy tents, fabricated from bed sheets, tattered plastic, sticks and strings, reinforced the assumption that these impromptu settlements, 1,300 of them, would surely vanish before the summer rains could wash them away.
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Amerelief on July 13 2010 08:30:13
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| BP makes fresh move to cap oil well |
 Al Jazeera and agencies
Oil spewing from a leaking well into the Gulf of Mexico could be contained as early as Monday if BP's latest attempt to bring the disaster under control is sucessful, the oil giant has said.
Under the plan, a new cap would be placed over the leaking well, capturing the oil before it escapes into the sea and preventing the massive slick caused by the leak from getting worse.
BP has come under pressure from the Obama administration to install the new cap, which could capture up to 80,000 barrels of oil a day, versus the 25,000 barrels a day currently being collected.
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Amerelief on July 10 2010 07:59:25
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| Deadly tornadoes hit Minnesota |
 A series of tornadoes have hit the midwestern US state of Minnesota, killing at least three people and injuring dozens. State officials said 39 tornadoes struck Minnesota on Thursday. If that figure is confirmed, it would exceed the previous state record of 27 sightings in one day, in 1992. Mark Roche, an emergency official, estimated that at least nine of the tornadoes churned along a 29-to-32km path in rural southern parts of Minnesota, including Freeborne county.
Roche said the tornadoes damaged 40 to 60 farms, but spared communities.
A visible line of damage was also spotted in North Dakota.
The Red Cross set up a shelter, but officials said no one slept there, opting instead to stay with family, friends or in local hotels.
US meteorologists said the tornadoes developed from the same warm, frontal boundary that started in the southern plains earlier in the week and moved northward through the region.
Source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/06/201061916646468297.html |
Amerelief on June 21 2010 18:41:07
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| Arkansas flood rescue under way |
The search continues for at least 76 people still missing after a campsite in the US state of Arkansas was hit by a powerful flash flood.
At least 16 people were confirmed dead on Saturday as a result of the flooding.
Waters rose as quickly as two and a half metres an hour early on Friday as campers slept, carrying away tents and overturning camper vans.
Search crews have returned to the Ouachita Mountains on horseback and all-terrain vehicles, hoping to find campers who survived the flash flooding of their camp grounds along the Caddo and Little Missouri rivers. |
Amerelief on June 12 2010 15:09:22
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