Schools Reopen in Aceh One Month After Tsunami
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One month after an epic tsunami ravaged southern Asia, children and teachers in Indonesia's worst-hit Aceh province on Wednesday made an emotional return to school, where thousands of desks of classmates and colleagues sat empty.
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JAKARTA: A man has been pulled alive from the rubble in Indonesia&#39;s Banda Aceh city five days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami caused massive destruction, reports said Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Fresh earthquakes in Asia  Monday rattled traumatized survivors of last month's killer  tsunami, while Indonesia and rebels in Aceh agreed to hold  talks, seeking to turn the calamity into a chance for peace.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Accusations flying  between the Indonesian military and rebels in tsunami-ravaged  Aceh province clouded prospects for recovery as aid workers on  Saturday began to switch their focus from relief to rebuilding.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Butchers, shop keepers  and restaurant owners in this devastated city opened for  business on Thursday, while a traditional marketplace bustled,  as tsunami survivors defiantly began to rebuild their lives.
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Soon after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami Sunday that have claimed the lives of at least 80,000 people in northern Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono traveled to the stricken province of Aceh.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Grief swept through the  airport of this tsunami-hit Indonesian city overnight when  hundreds of Acehnese Muslims returned from the annual Haj  pilgrimage to learn they had lost children, parents and homes  to the waves.
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Areas hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami  slowly return to some kind of normality, but signs of devastation are everywhere.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesian schoolchildren  wept and prayed for thousands of missing classmates as  debris-littered schools reopened in devastated Aceh province on  Wednesday, a month after the Asian tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Signs grew on Thursday  that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian  Ocean were beginning to recover from the tsunami which all but  swept them off the map.
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Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province is rebounding so well from the disaster that emergency relief work could wind up fairly quickly, a senior international aid official said Monday.
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Scores of Swedish classrooms will have an empty seat when schools reopen Monday after a three-week Christmas break &#151; a grim reminder that a classmate was lost to the tsunami that devastated southern Asia and claimed 140,000 lives.
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BANDA ACEH/LAMNO, Indonesia  - More than 400,000  Indonesians made homeless by the tsunami in Aceh province  remained at high risk of disease amid poor sanitation in  crowded refugee camps, aid agencies said on Monday.
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Refugees in Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province woke up on New Year's Day to a depressing rain, but there were signs that critically needed aid was finally starting to reach them.
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A week after a tsunami devastated the western end of Sumatra island,  markets are reopening, power and water are being restored to nearly half the city and a fuel shortage has been brought to an end.
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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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In tsunami-ravaged Banda Aceh, Indonesia, survivors have a gritty determination to start over.