Scandinavia Bears European Brunt of Tsunami
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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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Sweden, Finland and Norway hold a day of mourning for their hundreds of victims of the Asian tsunami.
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The tsunami catastrophe in south Asia is likely to have wreaked economic damage of more than 10 billion euros ($13.6 billion), compounding what
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Families throughout Europe are spending anxious hours desperate for news of loved ones after giant waves slammed into some of the world's most popular south Asian resorts at peak season, killing thousands of ...
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Hours after a tsunami flattened south Asia beaches &#151; a magnet for thousands of vacationing Swedes &#151; the Swedish foreign minister went to the theater.
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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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A magnitude 9.0 earthquake on December 26, off the west coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered massive tsunamis that affected several countries throughout South and Southeast Asia, as well as Somalia, Tanzania, and Kenya in East Africa.
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Hundreds of tourists from Europe and Scandinavia are among the missing and dead in southern Asia.
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INSURERS and travel firms across Europe took a knock yesterday after the devastation caused by the South Asian tsunami sparked fears of substantial financial costs.
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European leaders prepared their citizens for the worst as hopes dimmed for nearly 5,000 tourists, half of them Swedes and Germans, still missing four days after a tsunami tore through some of Asia's most popular beach resorts.
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STOCKHOLM -- People in Scandinavia and Germany, fond of viewing Asia as a winter refuge, faced up to the possibility that a tsunami had turned a tropical paradise into hell for hundreds of friends and loved ones.
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The tsunami that swept away so many lives in Asia has carried waves of grief to Sweden, with the country confronting what one government official described yesterday as "Sept. 11 levels of casualties." The ...
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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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PARIS: Cities on the US East Coast and in the Caribbean could be wrecked by a tsunami unleashed by the collapse of a volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic, British scientists believe.
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Many Swedes are missing in tsunami-stricken southern Thailand, Swedish diplomat Lenart Hamark said on Tuesday. Hamark, who is running an emergency centre on the resort
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On Thursday afternoon Sweden&#39;s prime minister GÃ¶ran Persson warned that 1,000 Swedes could have died following the tsunami triggered by Sunday morning&#39;s earthquake off the coast of Sumatra.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Western holidaymakers -- especially Scandinavians -- bore the brunt of deadly tidal waves that hit Thailand, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.