Candle-lit vigils for the dead in Asia as region mourns at New Year
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Grieving friends, family and survivors of the Asian quake disaster gathered to see in the New Year, pausing in their grief to reflect on the tragic end to a sometimes brutal year.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Relief workers struggled  to save millions of victims of Asia's tsunami disaster on  Saturday as the rising death toll dimmed New Year celebrations  across the globe.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Fireworks and red lanterns mark the Lunar New Year across Asia, but the festivities herald abalone poaching season in Australia and New Zealand.
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Four Nordic nations were set to ring in the New Year in shock and mourning, faced with their deadliest catastrophe in modern times as people sat glued to news reports from Asia where thousands of their loved ...
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&quot;There are lots of dead foreigners because it is during our high season and Christmas. It is a. family vacation time,&quot; Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters on Tuesday.
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The traditional party of the year will  be a somber affair across the globe.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia Saturday, as aid workers, troops and  grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of rotting  corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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Normally exuberant New Year&#39;s celebrations will be tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia&#39;s tsunami, as several cities worldwide cancel parties and Australia hopes to lead a global minute of silence.
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The dignitaries making rounds to express their good wishes in the usual new year's day official exchange paid tribute to the people hit by the natural catastrophe in Asia.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster ticked relentlessly upward to top 125,000 as clocks ticked down to a desolate new year in countries struggling to get food and water to millions facing starvation and disease.
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Candles burned in many windows across Sweden on Sunday in memory of the victims of Asia's deadly tsunami, as the government offered its distraught population hope by cutting the number of missing by one-fifth. ...
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Decaying corpses are piling up in Indonesia&#39;s Aceh province, where up to 10,000 people are feared dead as a result of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury  their dead and help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew  the final toll would far exceed the 27,700 people reported  killed.
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Authorities around the Asian region battered by the tragedy that killed more than 100,000 people scaled back or cancelled celebrations today.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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Candles burned in many windows across  Sweden on Sunday in memory of the victims of Asia's deadly  tsunami, as the government offered its distraught population  hope by cutting the number of missing by one-fifth.