Sri Lanka's Tsunami Survivors Lose Hope, Shun Coast
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PALLAI, Sri Lanka  - Housewife Viyarseeli  Nadarajahlingam's whole life revolved around her six children  and helping her husband mend his fishing nets on an idyllic  white sand beach at Sri Lanka's northern tip.
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Survivors of the Java  coast's tsunami were trying to pick up the pieces of their  lives on Thursday, despite repeated aftershocks that have been  shaking pasts of the island and spreading fresh fear.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Long-running rebellions cast a  shadow on Sunday over relief efforts in Indonesia and Sri  Lanka, nations badly struck by the tsunami two weeks ago.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Tsunami survivors living  in squalid camps in Indonesia's ravaged Aceh province are  getting restless, saying Tuesday they need a way to get back on  their feet just as much as they need food and shelter.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - At first, American tourist  Matthew O'Connell thought the rising sea was the sign of a good  day's surfing ahead.
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Areas hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami  slowly return to some kind of normality, but signs of devastation are everywhere.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line  all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float for miles out to sea.
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A death-like silence descended on Sri Lanka early Saturday as the country ushered in the New Year with prayers and mourning, six days after it lost nearly 30,000 people in its worst ever disaster.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka  - U.N. Secretary-General  Kofi Annan saw the scars 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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DESPERATE survivors of the Asian tsunami saw their first signs of hope today as aid finally started getting through to some remote regions.
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Rescuers were hoping for "individual miracles" of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand Wednesday for missing tourists and locals swept away by this week's quake-tsunami ...
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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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Tsunami survivors on the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales Thursday of going without food after fleeing mammoth waves that smashed their villages
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled yesterday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing a day after massive tsunamis surged across the region. The death toll rose to more than 23,000, almost half of them on this island nation in the Indian Ocean.
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with nearly 11,000 dead and up to a million displaced.
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The devastation and horror of the south Asia tsunami will have shaken the faith of many "believers". Here, people from different faiths tell how they have come to terms with the terrible events.
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A family displaced by Sunday&#39;s tsunami sleeps on the floor of a school converted into a relief centre in Kalmuni, Sri Lanka December 30, 2004.