Disaster may be Sweden's Sept. 11
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The tsunami that swept away so many lives in Asia has carried waves of grief to Sweden, with the country confronting what one government official described yesterday as "Sept. 11 levels of casualties." The ...
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Adoption of safety requirements proposed after the Sept. 11 attacks means an extra stairwell and more fireproofing could soon be required in tall buildings.
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LOS ANGELES  - With the fifth   anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaching, several   new DVDs touch upon the tragic events of that day.
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Congo Dem. Rep. REUTERS, STOCKHOLM:Dec 31: Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds, who returned on Friday from tsunami-devastated Thailand, said she believed the total death toll from the disaster in the ...
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According to Swedish scientists, the high instance of cancer patients in northern Sweden is a direct result of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster which took place in 1986.
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STOCKHOLM  - The Swedish government said it feared that many of the 1,500 Swedish tourists in Thailand who are still unaccounted for after giant tidal waves struck Asian coastlines may be dead.
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The closer New Yorkers were to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, the more vivid their memories are of the disaster that brought down the buildings.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--One of the most egregious pieces of unfinished business from 9/11 is the continuing vulnerability of chemical plants to terrorist attack.
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More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout that spewed over the region after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, according to a study by Swedish scientists.
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THIS WEEK's terrifying school hostage incident in Russia -- already being called that country's 9/11 -- will have reverberations around the world.
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After the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, Dutch intelligence claimed to have uncovered a series of Islamic terrorist plots, prompting many people here to wonder: "Are we next?" The terror fears have ...
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Scientists from Linkoping University, Sweden, estimate that 849 Swedes got cancer in Northern Sweden as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout that spewed over the region after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, according to a new study by Swedish scientists.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian official acknowledged on Thursday what many citizens already suspected - that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that "Russia now has a Sept. 11."   Just a day after officials stressed there were many possibilities besides terrorism, presidential envoy Vladimir Yakovlev told Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency that the main theory "all the same remains terrorism."   He said the planes' flight recorders had not provided any clues to the disaster...
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An early warning system would have made all the difference. Instead of being swept to their deaths by the Dec. 26 tsunami, tourists in Thailand and villagers in Sri Lanka could have been alerted to run for higher ground. Even Sumatrans near the epicenter might have recognized the danger posed by a coastal quake and dashed inland.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian  tsunami came home on Wednesday morning to a nation which fears  it may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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By ALEX CUKAN  Residents of Lower Manhattan caught in the toxic dust cloud after the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, were told by city officials to clean their homes with a wet rag.