Sombre New Year Celebrations as World Weighs Tsunami
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The traditional party of the year will  be a somber affair across the globe.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 and aid agencies warned many more people  -- particularly children -- could die in epidemics, ushering in  a somber New Year's Eve for the world.
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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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Britain's cities are preparing to mark the New Year with firework displays, concerts and sports events, but the celebrations will be overshadowed by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to  mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.
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Sri Lankans lit candles and chanted prayers for the dead to mark one month since the tsunami Wednesday, and mourners on a Thai island launched two new fishing boats in a first step toward rebuilding the devastated local fleet. On the hardest-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra, there were no memorials, but children went back to school and the empty desks of dead classmates.
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The dignitaries making rounds to express their good wishes in the usual new year's day official exchange paid tribute to the people hit by the natural catastrophe in Asia.
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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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Sweden greeted the new year with a national day of mourning Saturday, flying flags at half staff and lighting candles for the 3,500 of its citizens still missing in Thailand after the tsunami disaster that ...
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Normally exuberant New Year&#39;s celebrations will be tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia&#39;s tsunami, as several cities worldwide cancel parties and Australia hopes to lead a global minute of silence.
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Australia led the world in a global  minute of silence, parties were canceled and trees on Paris's  grand Champs Elysees were shrouded in black as Asia's  devastating tsunami darkened global New Year celebrations.
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Prayers replaced parties to mark New Year's in much of Asia, and in Europe black cloth draped the Champs Elysees, as sorrow over the death and destruction from this week's quake and tsunamis overshadowed celebration.
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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 ...
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Pope John Paul ushered in the New  Year with special prayers for the victims of the Asian tsunami  on Saturday, the Catholic Church's World Day of Peace.
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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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MADRAS, 28 December 2004 - Grief and anguish marked final rituals across Southeast Asia yesterday as relatives buried or cremated their loved ones; and the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed crossed 25,000.
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The fact that the tsunami happened at the peak of tourist season could deter others from coming in the future. Other countries weren&#39;t hit as hard.