For Sri Lanka, a 'ground zero'
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Many mourn at a train station where hundreds perished.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lankans have made huge  progress in clearing the rubble left in the wake of the deadly  Indian Ocean tsunami and thousands of displaced people have  left camps for the homeless, officials and aid groups say.
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WELLIGAMA, Sri Lanka -- Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky.
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Sri Lanka's financial sector looks set for a tough year in the wake of December's devastating tsunami, bank officials say.
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Sri Lanka appealed for international aid after declaring a state of disaster, as tsunamis unleashed by an undersea earthquake yesterday left more than 5,000 people dead and half-a-million homeless in the Indian Ocean island.
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The city of Jaffna has been in the center of the bitter civil war in Sri Lanka that has gone on for nearly 25 years.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka  - U.N. Secretary-General  Kofi Annan saw the scars on Saturday that the tsunami left in  Sri Lanka, where lives are in ruins but where hard work and  outside help have started to make a difference.
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Sri Lanka faces a substantial economic blow from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the International Monetary Fund says.
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The disastrous tidal waves that killed nearly 11,000 people in Sri Lanka have severely hit the island's economy, former prime minister and leader of the opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe warned.
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Distraught Sri Lankans have wandered through debris-strewn streets, desperately looking for any sign of relatives swept away by a deadly tsunami that has killed at least 10,200 people in the country.
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For many of the employees of the state and federal agencies, the memories of Sept. 11 were still too fresh to consider a return to ground zero.
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Security tight in Colombo as Sri Lanka marks 60 years of independence amid renewed unrest.
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WITHIN seconds, unexpected devastation swept through Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Indonesia, and Thailand changing the lives of millions.
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The BBC's Ethirajan Anbarasan finds that Muslim tsunami victims in eastern Sri Lanka fear they are being overlooked.
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In Sri Lanka's war-torn north and east, where killings happen every day and work is nearly nonexistent, it doesn't take much to entice a man to leave.
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PETER CAVE: As the death toll rises, the Sri Lankan Government has appealed to doctors all over the world to come forward and help the victims.
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A deadly new chapter in Sri Lanka's  two-decade civil war is putting the lives of thousands of  civilians at risk and derailing efforts to rebuild areas  devastated by the 2004 tsunami, a senior UN envoy said.