52 Swedes confirmed dead, nearly 3,000 missing in Asian tsunami
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The Swedish government on Sunday revised down both the death toll and the number of missing tourists from last Sunday's tsunami in Asia.
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The first bodies of 52 Swedes killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami came home in flag-draped coffins before dawn Wednesday as sobbing relatives, the royal family and government leaders stood in frigid rain, faced with the grim reality that 1,903 missing Swedes might never be found.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000  on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease.
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Sweden greeted the new year with a day of mourning Saturday to honor 59 Swedes confirmed dead and 3,559 missing, while Italy raised its death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster to 18 and said more ...
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At least 3,000 people died in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and 30,000 people are missing after five villages in the archipelago's south were swept away by a tsunami, officials said.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian tsunami have come home to a nation which fears it may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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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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Police in Sweden release a list of 565 people who were killed or went missing in the Asian tsunami, after a court ruling.
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STOCKHOLM  - Half a world away from the havoc of the tidal waves in Asia, Scandinavians desperate for information about loved ones gone missing while on holiday scoured the Internet for news amid reports that thousands of them may have perished.
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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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At least 21 people have been killed and dozens missing and feared drowned after a tsunami triggered by a huge earthquake struck Malaysia&#39;s northern coast, officials say.
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians were among more than 3,500 foreigners still unaccounted for three days after deadly walls of water slammed into coastal communities and resorts around the Indian Ocean.
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians were among  over 3,500 foreigners still unaccounted for three days after  deadly walls of water slammed into coastal communities and  resorts around the Indian Ocean.
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Sweden held a memorial service Monday for victims of Asia's tsunami in an effort to deal with what may be its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The global death toll  from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 Wednesday after  Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of  thousands of people previously listed as missing.
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Desperate refugees foraged for coconuts or looted food on battered Sumatra island Tuesday, as the number killed in a mammoth earthquake and tsunami soared above 52,000 and tens of thousands still were missing. Grieving survivors buried their dead by hand, trying to ward off an epidemic that the U.N. health agency warned could double the toll yet again.
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European leaders prepared their citizens  for the worst as hopes dimmed for nearly 5,000 tourists, half  of them Swedes and Germans, still missing four days after a  tsunami tore through some of Asia's most popular beach resorts.