Tsunami leaves children, parents alone
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When the raging ocean waters subsided, 7-year-old Karl Nilsson from Sweden thought he had been transported to another city. He was still in the same place, but his parents
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Across his tsunami-devastated island, his relatives, friends and teachers lay dead, lost in water that submerged his home. As Koshi Mackenroe John hunkered down on a hill with his parents, there was little he could do except wait for rescuers.
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LHOK NGA, Indonesia  - Nur Eni misses her home.  She hates the refugee camp where she lives with her husband and  three children who survived last month's massive tsunami in  Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Screaming with fear, paralyzed children at a shelter for the physically disabled and mentally ill lay helpless in their beds as water surged into their dormitories during the tsunami that ravaged coastal areas of southern Asia.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Up to five million people were displaced by tsunamis that killed nearly 119,000 people in Asia, officials said, as aftershocks rocked traumatised survivors.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesian schoolchildren  wept and prayed for thousands of missing classmates as  debris-littered schools reopened in devastated Aceh province on  Wednesday, a month after the Asian tsunami.
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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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When the mournful call to prayer echoes through the relief camp, Rusli stirs, alone in his tent in the pre-dawn gloom. As he performs the morning Islamic rites, the farmer seeks solace from God for his wife and three children, swept away in the tsunami.
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Hundreds missing after typhoon &#39;catastrophe&#39; Independent Online
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into the beaches and bars of some of Asia's most popular  resorts, killing thousands of people and leaving hundreds of  thousands stranded.
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Two-year-old Hannes Bergstroem doesn't understand much about the tsunami that swept him away from a beach in Thailand, though he "talks about 'the big stupid wave,'" his father said Friday.
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Jillian Searle knew she could not hold on to both her children during Sunday's tsunami - and had to let go of one of them.
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Readers report their experiences of the Indian Ocean tsunami that has devastated parts of Asia.
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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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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 miles out to sea.
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.