Scandinavia mourns quake victims
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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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Church bells rang out across Europe as shoppers, mass transit and stock exchanges paused for a moment of silence Wednesday in tribute to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Western holidaymakers -- especially Scandinavians -- bore the brunt of deadly tidal waves that hit Thailand, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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Millions are marking the start of 2005 with restraint amid global mourning for victims of the Asian earthquake.
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Four Nordic nations were set to ring in the New Year in shock and mourning, faced with their deadliest catastrophe in modern times as people sat glued to news reports from Asia where thousands of their loved ...
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LONDON -- Throughout Europe, people bowed their heads for a three-minute silence yesterday at noon in remembrance of the more than 150,000 victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami. Hundreds of Europeans are known to have died in the devastating tsunami, and thousands remain missing.
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Sweden said 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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For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt "completely wrong." Paris, its gay heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along a favorite haunt for romantic reveling &#151; the Champs-Elysees. Elsewhere, prayers substituted for parties in the final minutes of 2004.
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Sundays colossal undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, in which more than 14,000 people are already known to have died and millions have lost their homes, has also affected the several thousand Finnish ...
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Wailing relatives gathered around dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India on Sunday after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed up to 3,000 people.
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Two unusually powerful earthquakes in the Baltic Sea area frightened residents of a number of countries on Tuesday.
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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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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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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to more than 52,000.
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Candles burned in many windows across Sweden on Sunday in memory of the victims of Asia's deadly tsunami, as the government offered its distraught population hope by cutting the number of missing by one-fifth. ...
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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.