Ruins, deaths don't stop family's return
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Twice a day, the tourists come. They smile -- striking poses on the severed porch just yards from where Robert Green says Ditty died with his two kids. Two years after Green lost everything -- family and possessions -- the gawkers are another reminder of just how far from normal his life is after Katrina.
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KIAMBAA, Kenya  - Even as Kenya Red Cross staff cleared the last of the bodies from the church's smoldering remains, traces of the massacre still haunted it.
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Rescuers recovered dozens of bodies from a village devastated by landslides Wednesday on Indonesia's Java island as authorities struggled to get heavy lifting equipment to the affected areas. Officials said at least 78 people were killed or feared dead.
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Shouting names of the missing relatives, looking around to identify the loved ones and moving bodies for burials -- all are the scene in a Sri Lankan coastal town a day after the sudden tsunamis.
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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The tsunami claimed the lives of hundreds of foreign tourists. Many families remain separated.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- They were supposed to be relaxing on the beach or playing a round of golf on yet another sunny day of vacation on their refuge from the harsh winter of Norway. Instead, Leif Giske and his wife stood on the concrete driveway of a hospital amid the stench of corpses at an overflow morgue.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Rescuers dug the bodies of six  members of one family -- a couple and their four children --  out of the rubble of an Iraqi house bombed by U.S. warplanes on  Wednesday, witnesses said.
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Two Londonderry families contact relatives caught up in the earthquake that has killed  thousands of people.
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RAMONA, California  - Sifting through the ash-covered rubble where her family's home stood one week ago, Nicole Booth combs the scorched remains of a life left behind in the wildfires that blanketed this Southern California town.
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost his seven children and home to the tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Aceh province two years ago, but he believes there was a lesson in it for the war-weary province.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- When the rivers started rising, Serin Huberman stood on a rooftop and looked down at his mother trying to sweep the water from their home and at his father rushing to gather up family photographs. Then he watched them and three siblings disappear under the flood.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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In tsunami-ravaged Banda Aceh, Indonesia, survivors have a gritty determination to start over.
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Death notices sent to relatives of missing people
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AS each hour passes, anguish and despair mounts for relatives of a beloved Victorian family of four, missing in the ravaged Asian region hit by the tsunami.
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By Howard W. French  Where as many 10,000 fishing boats once docked, today only a few bob in a long, serpentine harbor here still flecked with wrecks. All along the shoreline, families that only recently made a rich living from the sea stare glumly at reminders of their loss.