Hogmanay silence for Asia victims
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Organisers of Edinburgh's Hogmanay party will hold a one-minute silence to remember those killed by the Asian tsunami.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Most of those killed or missing in Thailand&#39;s tidal wave disaster were Western holidaymakers, officials said, as rescuers pressed on with the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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Normally exuberant New Year celebrations  were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia's tsunami  as several major cities canceled parties and Australia led a  global minute of silence.
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LIVERPOOL, England  - Two minutes&#39; silence was held in the native city of Kenneth Bigley as the British engineer&#39;s family struggled to come to terms with his brutal murder by Islamic extremists in Iraq.
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SYDNEY - Normally exuberant New Year celebrations were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asiaâs tsunami as several major cities cancelled parties and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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Parties were cancelled, trees on Paris&#39;s Champs Elysees avenue were shrouded in black and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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THE family of a Brisbane woman missing in Thailand said yesterday they had not given up hope of finding her alive. Dina Fryer went missing from Phuket when the Boxing Day tsunami struck the island resort.
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Tens of thousands of Indian people still suffer appalling effects from the Bhopal gas leak 20 years ago and over 20,000 have died from the disaster, Amnesty International says, labelling the victims' long wait for justice a major breach of human rights.
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The South Asian tragedy has ripped open centuries-old fault lines of caste in rural India's rigid social hierarchy. In the district of Nagapattinam, where more than 6,000 people died, untouchables from about 10 villages have openly protested what they call discrimination against them in the provision of relief supplies and access to shelters.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s tour of New Zealand will pause for five days in recognition of a period of national mourning for the victims of the Asian earthquake.
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it hit Taiwan on Saturday. Hundreds of people fled their homes and two people were reported missing after torrential. Nanmadol killed at least 35 people in the Philippines and
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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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Well said...   "These powerful and well-funded political Christian fundamentalist organizations appear to be suffering from a compassion deficit. Organizations which are amazingly quick to organize to fight against same-sex marriage, a woman's right to choose, and embryonic stem cell research are missing in action when it comes to responding to the disaster in southern Asia. None of their web sites are actively soliciting aid for the victims of the earthquake/tsunami."  "In fact, there is no mention of the giant earthquake and tsunami that devastated southern Asia. There are no headlines about the dead, injured or the tremendous damage; there are no urgent appeals for donations; there are  ...
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Authorities around the Asian region battered by the tragedy that killed more than 100,000 people scaled back or cancelled celebrations today.
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The deadline set by Islamic militants for the beheading of a Japanese hostage unless their demands were met has passed with no news of the man&#39;s fate.
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Melbourne: Early breaking news of the devastation wrought by the tidal waves, perhaps the worst in human history, that lashed the southern and eastern coasts of India and elsewhere in Asia yesterday did not convey to people abroad the true, tragic
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - Flags across Europe will be lowered to half-mast, stock exchanges will stop trading, and workers, shoppers and businesses across the continent will join a silent tribute Wednesday to victims of the south Asian tsunami.