World Tempers New Year Celebrations After Tsunami
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Normally exuberant New Year&#39;s celebrations will be tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia&#39;s tsunami, as several cities worldwide cancel parties and Australia hopes to lead a global minute of silence.
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Denmark holds a national day of mourning for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster a week ago.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II celebrated a special Mass early yesterday in his private chapel for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. Later, he publicly praised the outpouring of aid for the stricken populations as a sign of hope for 2005.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A day after a tsunami killed at least 24,500 people in 10 countries, governments of nations along the Indian Ocean began to consider a comprehensive warning system Monday so that lives can be saved in future natural disasters.
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Sweden greeted the new year with a day of mourning Saturday to honor 59 Swedes confirmed dead and 3,559 missing, while Italy raised its death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster to 18 and said more than 600 Italians had not been found.
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Britain's cities are preparing to mark  the New Year with firework displays, concerts and sports  events, but the celebrations will be overshadowed by the Asian  tsunami disaster.
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Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into beaches and bars in some of Asia's most popular resorts,  killing thousands of people and stranding many more.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to  mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aircraft, naval vessels  and trucks struggled Friday to deliver aid around stricken  southern Asia as the death toll passed more than 124,000 from a  tsunami that darkened the world's New Year.
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All around Asia, New Year&#39;s Eve celebrations are being cancelled, replaced by services to remember the more than 120,000 people killed in the earthquake and tsunami that it sent out.
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CALANG, Indonesia  - Hundreds of Indonesians prayed at mass graves in Aceh province on Wednesday, while in Thailand Buddhist monks held a ceremony to remember the many thousands who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami three years ago.
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HAFUN, Somalia -- In this remote, northeastern corner of Somalia, villagers have long believed the world will end when the sea runs dry and the ground shakes. When the tsunami struck Dec. 26, many thought that day had come.
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The international response to a catastrophic tsunami in Asia has been quick and generous, a senior UN official said on December 28, 2004, playing down his earlier comments that wealthy nations were stingy.
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Sweden greeted the new year with a day of mourning Saturday to honor 59 Swedes confirmed dead and 3,559 missing, while Italy raised its death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster to 18 and said more ...
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It was something not seen in Baghdad since before the 2003 invasion Â people publicly welcoming a new year with singing, dancing and alcohol-fueled revelry. The ballrooms of two landmark hotels Â the Palestine and the Sheraton Â were full of people for the first New Year's Eve celebrations after four years of violence that has bloodied Iraq.
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Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik will rework the traditional New Year's address to the nation after the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Southeast Asia.