Sri Lanka appeals for unity as tsunami toll nears 18,000
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COLOMBO  - Thousands of tsunami victims were buried in mass graves as the death toll neared 18,000 and Sri Lanka&#39;s president called for ethnic unity to tackle the crisis.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka declared Friday a day of national mourning for the thousands of victims of the tsunami which lashed three-quarters of the islandâs coastline and left a massive trail of death and destruction.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in an Asian  earthquake and tsunami Sunday has jumped to more than 6,300,  according to officials and local media.
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ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY A father of a victim of Sunday&#39;s quake-triggered tidal wave cries before a mass burial in Tamil Tiger rebel-held Mullativu, eastern Sri Lanka, December 28, 2004.
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[World News]: Colombo, Dec 28 : The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka continued to mount by hundreds Tuesday, with unconfirmed reports putting it at as high as 19,000, with hundreds still missing.
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The toll from a severe earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra island last week has risen to 17 dead and 88 injured, while more than 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, officials said on Saturday.
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At least 2,425 people, including many children and the elderly, were confirmed dead and about 1,600 wounded in Sri Lanka on Sunday as tsunami waves smashed into the island.
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World leaders step up plans for a united response to Asian tsunamis as the 124,000 confirmed dead are mourned.
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At least 29,957 people were confirmed killed and 5,740 reported missing from the tsunamis that struck Sri Lanka last week, the president's office has said.
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Representatives of Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tigers rebels, mortal enemies, are working together to help tsunami victims.
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Sri Lanka's squabbling leaders displayed rare unity at an emotional candle-light vigil for the victims of the tsunami which has killed close to 30,000 people on the island while heavy rains slowed relief operations.
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NEW DELHI/JAKARTA/NEW YORK - The death toll in the tsunamis that ripped across Southeast and South Asia climbed above 24,000 on Tuesday as emergency and government officials said two days after the disaster that they feared the number of victims would
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an ethnic war.
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Sri Lanka says it fears about 200 foreign tourists have been killed by its worst tsunami in memory after the military raised the overall death toll to more than 10,000 people.
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More than 50 people were killed in  civil war-racked Sri Lanka in August and dozens more  disappeared, a rights group said on Tuesday, urging the United  Nations to intervene.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 22,000  Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  fears of disease grew as soldiers raced to recover rotting  bodies.
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The official death toll from last weekend's tsunami disaster is approaching 150,000 with most of the victims in the Indonesian province of Aceh.