Scandinavia mourns quake victims
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Sweden, Finland and Norway hold a day of mourning for their hundreds of victims of the Asian tsunami.
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians were among  more than 3,500 foreigners still unaccounted for three days  after deadly walls of water slammed into coastal communities  and resorts around the Indian Ocean.
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With candles and prayers, songs and moments of silence, Japan on Monday mournfully marked the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that ripped through the port city of Kobe, killing nearly 6,500 people and demonstrating the vulnerability of modern metropolises to natural disasters.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin onSunday sent condolences to leaders of the Asian nations which werehit by tidal waves caused by a devastating earthquake off Indonesia&#39;s northwest coast.
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Scandinavian countries are preparing themselves for national tragedies as realization dawns that most of the Europeans missing after the south Asian tsunami are from Sweden and Norway.
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Scandinavian countries fear the tsunami killed hundreds of their nationals in Thailand, along with other tourists.
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President Bush expressed his condolences Sunday to the victims of the massive earthquake and tidal waves that hit southern and southeast Asia. The State Department said three Americans have been identified as being among those killed.
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LONDON -- Throughout Europe, people bowed their heads for a three-minute silence yesterday at noon in remembrance of the more than 150,000 victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami. Hundreds of Europeans are known to have died in the devastating tsunami, and thousands remain missing.
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Sri Lankans lit candles and chanted prayers for the dead to mark one month since the tsunami Wednesday, and mourners on a Thai island launched two new fishing boats in a first step toward rebuilding the devastated local fleet. On the hardest-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra, there were no memorials, but children went back to school and the empty desks of dead classmates.
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As the coffins of the first Swedish victims were brought home, Europe was to fall silent in memory of thousands of its nationals now thought to have been consumed by the tsunamis in south Asia.
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Indian Ocean nations from Indonesia to  Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury their dead and  get water and other emergency supplies to survivors of a  tsunami that killed more than 23,200 people.
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Scandinavians fumed at their  governments' initial lax response to Asia's tsunami disaster as  hopes dimmed on Thursday for some 5,000 foreign tourists,  mostly Europeans, still missing four days after the wall of  water hit.
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Estonia, Finland and Sweden paid tribute on Tuesday to the 852 people killed a decade ago when their ferry sank in a storm on the Baltic Sea, the worst peacetime maritime disaster in modern European history.
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The bodies of six Swedes killed by the tsunami are sent home from Thailand, with many more expected later.
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Indian Ocean nations 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 26,000 people reported killed.
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians and  1,000 Germans were still unaccounted for on Wednesday, three  days after their tropical paradise was devastated by Asia's  tsunami.
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Sweden, still mourning its citizens lost in the tsunami, is grappling with a tragedy with no familiar coordinates.