Mass funerals for tsunami victims
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MASS funerals of thousands of tsunami victims got underway today in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the weekend&#39;s devastation surged to 17,640.
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A funeral mass is being held for aid worker Margaret Hassan, thought to have been murdered in Iraq.
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HOSPITALS overflowed with corpses and funeral homes were crammed with crowds as Sri Lanka continued to struggle with its largest natural disaster.
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Prayers and candlelight vigils were substituted for parties across Asia, while Paris draped black cloths along the Champs-Elysees. Revelers in New York's Times Square marked a moment of silence as the world brought in the New Year mourning the victims of devastating tsunamis.
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Thailand prepares to bury the final bodies of those killed in one of the  regions hardest-hit by the 2004 tsunami.
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Millions are marking the start of 2005 with restraint amid global mourning for victims of the Asian earthquake.
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into the beaches and bars of some of Asia's most popular  resorts, killing thousands of people and leaving hundreds of  thousands stranded.
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The death toll in the massive tsunamis triggered by a magnitude 8.7 earthquake in South and Southeast Asia on Sunday has reached over 55,000.
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MATESIH, Indonesia  - Tens of thousands of people lined the roads around Indonesia's royal city of Solo on Monday as the body of autocratic former president Suharto arrived for a state funeral at the family's mausoleum.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  up to 3,000 people.
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In Pakistan, some 10,000 mourners have gathered in Karachi for the funeral services of one of two prominent Sunni Muslim clerics killed Saturday.
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Millions of people across the UK and Europe are to observe a three minute silence  for the Asian tsunami dead.
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Thousands of mourners are expected to join Nelson Mandela at the funeral of his son, Makgatho.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Dignitaries, sailors in dress uniform, and silver-haired ex-submariners crowded into a church Wednesday for the funeral of Lieut.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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GALLE: Stricken countries on the Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as the the tsunami toll across asia reached 68,000 with more than 12,000 dead in India.
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Preparations are being made to repatriate the bodies of seven Australians killed in the tsunamis in Thailand. Foreign Affairs officials say they have serious concerns for a further nine missing Australians.