Scandinavia Bears European Brunt of Tsunami
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Scandinavian countries are preparing  themselves for national tragedies as realization dawns that  most of the Europeans missing after the south Asian tsunami are  from Sweden and Norway.
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While the deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean has focused attention on that part of the world, great waves also pose a threat to the United States.
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Fearful that the southern Asian tsunami may leave millions traumatized, European health ministers urged governments to be mindful of the psychological scars the disaster left behind, especially on children.
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Sweden said on Thursday more than 1,000 Swedes may have been killed in the Asian tsunami, the worst death toll for any foreign country.
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Thursday's European papers assess the response of governments and NGOs alike to the Asian tsunami disaster.
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STOCKHOLM -- People in Scandinavia and Germany, fond of viewing Asia as a winter refuge, faced up to the possibility that a tsunami had turned a tropical paradise into hell for hundreds of friends and loved ones.
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The government&#39;s handling of what has become a national catastrophe for Sweden, as well as for the countries directly hit by Sunday&#39;s tsunami, has been fiercely criticised in thousands of letters and emails to newspapers and the foreign office.
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The United States is moving on several fronts toward a global tsunami warning system following the Asian catastrophe.
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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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The first Swedish dead from the Asian  tsunami came home Wednesday to a nation which fears it may have  suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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Sweden, Finland and Norway hold a day of mourning for their hundreds of victims of the Asian tsunami.
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Aid teams rushed from Europe to southern Asian countries devastated by tidal waves Sunday, warning that anything less than an urgent response would add many more deaths to a toll already in the thousands.
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Indian Ocean nations from Indonesia to  Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury their dead and  get water and other emergency supplies to survivors of a  tsunami that killed more than 23,200 people.
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Prime ministers of Norway, Sweden and Finland go to Thailand to see the devastating aftermath of the tsunami.
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Scandinavians fumed at their  governments' initial lax response to Asia's tsunami disaster as  hopes dimmed on Thursday for some 5,000 foreign tourists,  mostly Europeans, still missing four days after the wall of  water hit.
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The tsunami catastrophe in south Asia is likely to have wreaked economic damage of more than 10 billion euros ($13.6 billion), compounding what
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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.