Europe counts human cost of Asian disaster
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European governments said that dozens of their nationals were killed in the devastating tidal waves that hit south and southeast Asia amid fears of more still missing, including many presumed to have been swept out to sea.
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The earthquake and tidal wave that raced across southeast Asia to east Africa and killed thousands of people may be the costliest disaster in history, reaching billions of dollars, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said Monday.
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Extreme weather hit Europe Saturday as the death toll from a heat wave in Romania, Austria and Bulgaria rose to 18 and hundreds faced another night of misery in flood-drenched England.
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All across Asia officials are counting the terrible toll from a powerful earthquake and tidal waves that have devastated the region.
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European insurers face new costs and  travel firms could lose business after tsunami waves killed  more than 21,500 in Asia this weekend, but the financial impact  is expected to be limited compared with other disasters this  year.
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Colombo - The death toll from tsunamis unleashed by a massive earthquake off Indonesia on Sunday passed 4 050 with people reported killed in six countries in southern and southeastern Asia.
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An estimated 2 million people in Asia are at risk of sinking deeper into poverty as a result of the Dec. 26 tsunami and its aftermath, with the harshest long-term economic damage expected in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, according to a study by the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank.
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Rescuers scoured the sea for missing  tourists and soldiers raced to recover bodies amid fears of  disease as Asia counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that  killed more than 15,500 from India to Indonesia.
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AMSTERDAM -- Europeans from Riga to Rome will observe three minutes of silence today to remember the 150,000 people killed by the Asian tsunami and contemplate the millions of other lives devastated by the disaster. EU public buildings will fly flags at half-staff and governments will call for silence at noon. Luxembourg, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, has called ...
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Soldiers searched for bodies in treetops, families wept over the dead lined up on beaches and rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed at least 12,600.
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Hundreds of tourists from Europe and Scandinavia are among the missing and dead in southern Asia.
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Wednesday's European papers tackle the Asian tsunami disaster, German unemployment and bridge-building between Jews and Muslims.
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Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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The disaster took more than 50,000 lives, and rebuilding could top $10 billion. However, Asia&#39;s economic growth may escape the worst.
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The European Commission pledged an additional 350 million euros (&#36;462 million) over three years on Thursday to relief efforts for the devastating Dec. 26 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
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The earthquake and tsunami which struck Asia on 26 December remain the dominant theme in Tuesday's European papers.
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At least 5,000 Europeans are still missing - most of them presumed dead - after the Indian Ocean disaster wrecked beach resorts in south-west Thailand.