Hope diminishes as corpses surface
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Miles of tsunami-shattered beach hotels on the Thai mainland north of Phuket island began yielding up their dead yesterday, bloated gashed, and mangled bodies.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate survivors  huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water  line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float as far as 20 miles out to sea.
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The bodies had been whisked away but the dried pool of blood covering the dirt-floor dead end of a twisting alley was a chilling sign of what happened here last week.
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Waters begin to recede but aid agencies in Haiti struggle to bring supplies to people hit by tropical storm Jeanne.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Workers buried more tsunami victims in Aceh province yesterday, as a premature end to cease-fire talks between the Indonesian government and separatist rebels dampened hopes for a quick resolution to a 30-year-old conflict in the devastated province.
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TABA, Egypt  - Rescue workers began to lose hope  of finding survivors in the rubble of an Egyptian Red Sea hotel  on Saturday, almost 48 hours after three bombs aimed at Israeli  tourists killed at least 33 people.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to more than 52,000.
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Government and opposition leaders soften their stances as the violence begins to wane
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Victims of mudslides in the Philippines are buried in a mass grave, in an effort to prevent disease.
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Indian Ocean nations from Indonesia to  Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury their dead and  help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew the final toll  would far exceed the 26,000 people reported killed.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury  their dead and help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew  the final toll would far exceed the 27,700 people reported  killed.
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Dazed survivors struggled to comprehend their tragedy and bury their dead yesterday amid the overpowering stench of death in the southern tourist town of Galle.
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MUKJAR, Sudan -- Uncovered by a restless wind, skulls and bones poke above the thin dirt in this corner of Darfur, lying surrounded by half-buried, rotting clothes.
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Soldiers are searching for bodies in treetops, families are weeping over the dead laid on beaches and rescuers are scouring coral isles for missing tourists as
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Three weeks after the Asian tsunami, people near and far paused to remember the dead but hundreds of bodies rotting by the sea showed how much still has to be done to make life bearable for survivors.
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Two days after Hurricane Charley tore across the state, the death toll was inching up, but far slower than officials had feared.
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Soldiers laid 72 coffins in two trenches, a mass grave for victims of the Israeli bombardment. Elsewhere, mounds of rubble sat undisturbed; rescue workers were too fearful of missiles to search for bodies.