Sombre New Year Celebrations as World Weighs Tsunami
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The traditional party of the year will  be a somber affair across the globe.
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Travel: Warm up for New Year's Eve 2008 with our gallery of celebrations around the world
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HAFUN, Somalia -- In this remote, northeastern corner of Somalia, villagers have long believed the world will end when the sea runs dry and the ground shakes. When the tsunami struck Dec. 26, many thought that day had come.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to  mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for a major logistical  operation to help a half-dozen countries shattered by Sunday's  tsunami, which by the latest count had killed 124,622.
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From Paris to Beijing, Hong Kong to London and beyond, musicians are beating the drum &#151; literally in their case &#151; for victims of the Asian tsunami with special concerts and songs. Hip-hop rhymers, classical orchestras, church choirs, punk bands, creamy-voiced crooners and others are taking up the fund-raising theme.
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PATONG BEACH, Thailand  - People held candles and  white roses on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, tearfully  embracing as they grieved, in a poignant symbol of the mood  which darkened New Year celebrations across the globe.
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Indian Ocean states from Indonesia to Sri Lanka scrambled on Tuesday to cope with the widespread devastation of a tsunami that killed over 23,000 people and could claim more lives through disease and privation.
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As troops fight in Iraq and relief workers scurry to aid tsunami survivors in Asia, some Americans believe the inaugural festivities for Bush's second term are an unseemly show of extravagance.
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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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Millions mark the start of 2005 with restraint amid global mourning for victims of the Asian earthquake.
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The magnitude of the tsunami that remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.
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Pope John Paul ushered in the New  Year with special prayers for the victims of the Asian tsunami  on Saturday, the Catholic Church's World Day of Peace.
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Armies of officials are tabulating the deaths caused by the tsunami that struck a dozen countries in Asia and Africa last weekend. The grim task is often imprecise.
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Swedes grieve the loss of many dead and missing in the Indian Ocean tsunami, writes Lars Bevanger in Stockholm.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year revellers around the world paused to mourn  victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.