Austrians and Germans to sue over absence of tsunami warning
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Austrian and German victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami plan are to file a lawsuit because they were not given warning of the disaster.
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A tsunami warning system is now in place for Indian Ocean countries, but experts said Wednesday there is still room for improvement in methods to convey the alerts to coastal communities.
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Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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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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FRANKFURT: German insurance companies said Monday it was too early to assess the costs from the deadly tidal waves that battered South Asia at the weekend.
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Damages from Sundayâs tsunami seem unlikely to wreak devastation on the insurance industry after Swiss Re, the worldâs second-largest reinsurer, said on Thursday that disaster would cost it less than SFr100m ($88m).
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LONDON, Jan 7  (IPS) - Setting up an early warning system for tsunamis is  expected to top the agenda at an  international meeting on small  island developing states taking place in Mauritius from  Sunday.
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European travel companies were searching for missing customers and cancelling departures to areas devastated by the Asian tsunami on Wednesday as some experts predicted
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African nations neighbouring the Indian Ocean on Wednesday warned of a possible tsunami after an earthquake struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, officials said.
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Nearly two years after the tsunami, a regional warning system is beset by squabbling and inaction, officials and experts say, as individual countries instead scramble to implement their own schemes.
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India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives issued tsunami alerts after a massive earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island, officials said.
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BERLIN -- Munich Re, the world&#39;s biggest reinsurer, said Tuesday that the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis likely will cost it less than 100 million euros ($136 million).
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A German statesman, a Czech supermodel and a Swedish Olympic ski champion were among the vacationers whose search for peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was shattered by the tsunamis that spared neither rich nor poor.
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German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul has called for an international conference on the tsumani disaster in South Asia.
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Both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas are vulnerable to tsunamis like the one that devastated Indian Ocean shorelines in December and experts said on Tuesday they are scrambling to try to get warning system in place before politicians lose interest.
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Sixty Germans are now confirmed killed in the Asian tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka and Thailand and many more than 1,000 are missing, the government said on Sunday.
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The German general public have all together donated over 330 million euros (431 million US dollars) for Asia's tsunami victims, the German Central Institute for Social Issues announced on Friday.