Schools reopen in tsunami-shattered town
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Children and teachers cleaned up debris swept into classrooms by last week's tsunami as schools reopened Monday in the resort town hardest hit by the killer waves.
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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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Sri Lanka's truce brought back tourists but the tsunami has ended the revival, writes Sanjoy Majumder.
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Butchers, shop keepers and restaurant owners in this devastated city opened for business on Thursday, while a traditional marketplace bustled, as tsunami survivors defiantly began to rebuild their lives.
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In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a handful of desperate people scavenging a beach for food.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line  all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float for miles out to sea.
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Schools in the Indonesian province of Aceh reopen for the first time since the disaster a month ago.
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Medical team starts work with survivors in a town half destroyed by the earthquake and floods. In the next 48 hours, two MSF staff will make an air assessment of the northeast part of Aceh, using a helicopter
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Tears and prayers flowed  as children in Indonesia's devastated Aceh returned to schools  littered with debris on Wednesday, mourning the loss of  classmates, siblings and parents a month after the Asian  tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Butchers, shop keepers  and restaurant owners in this devastated city opened for  business on Thursday, while a traditional marketplace bustled,  as tsunami survivors defiantly began to rebuild their lives.
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PERALIYA, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lankan housewife D.W. Leelawathi can still picture the 2004 tsunami as if it were yesterday, but three years on she and thousands like her are finally back in homes they can call their own and are moving on.
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Signs grew on Thursday that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian Ocean were beginning to recover from the tsunami which all but swept them off the map.
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TOKYO  - A series of powerful tremors rattled a central Japanese region still reeling from last month&#39;s earthquake, slightly injuring 13 people just as the last schools shut by the tragedy reopened.
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A hospital in the tsunami-ravaged Thai island of Phuket says its patient influx has slowed from its peak after earthquake-triggered waves wiped away entire towns, while the number of
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A series of aftershocks have rocked a town in Indonesia&#39;s Papua province, one day after a powerful earthquake killed 17 people and injured more than 180, officials said.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - A week after a deadly tsunami  swept away thousands of lives along Thailand's tropical  coastline, people prayed for the victims in special church  services Sunday and spoke of putting the tragedy behind them.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages in an area washed  flat by the tsunami a week ago, but it grew clearer no amount  of aid could stop more loss of life throughout the disaster  zone.