Bodies of Swedes killed by tsunami return home
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden Making the first of what will be dozens of sad homecomings, the bodies of six Swedes killed by the south Asia tsunami have arrived in Stockholm.
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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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Scores of Swedish classrooms will have an empty seat when schools reopen Monday after a three-week Christmas break &#151; a grim reminder that a classmate was lost to the tsunami that devastated southern Asia and claimed 140,000 lives.
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STOCKHOLM  - The Swedish government said it feared that many of the 1,500 Swedish tourists in Thailand who are still unaccounted for after giant tidal waves struck Asian coastlines may be dead.
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Police in Sweden release a list of 565 people who were killed or went missing in the Asian tsunami, after a court ruling.
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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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Sweden greeted the new year with a national day of mourning Saturday, flying flags at half staff and lighting candles for the 3,500 of its citizens still missing in Thailand after the tsunami disaster that ...
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Sweden said on Thursday more than 1,000 Swedes may have been killed in the Asian tsunami, the worst death toll for any foreign country.
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Most of the resorts hit by the tsunami are back in business. Now all they need is for tourists to return
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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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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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A total of 60 Swedes have been identified among the dead and 3,500 are missing after the massive earthquake and tidal waves that slammed the Indian Ocean coastlines, the foreign ministry said.
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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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STOCKHOLM  - At least 1,600 Swedes were still missing Tuesday in Thailand following the giant tidal waves that devastated coastal resorts in the country, according to estimates from tour operators.
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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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Sweden now seems likely to be the Western country hardest hit by the tsunamis that wrecked the southern Asian coastlines the day after Christmas and killed more than 100,000 people.
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THE prime ministers of Sweden, Norway and Finland will next week visit Thailand, where most of the northern European nationals missing or killed in the tsunamis were vacationing, officials said today.