Mass funerals for tsunami victims
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MASS funerals of thousands of tsunami victims got underway today in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the weekend&#39;s devastation surged to 17,640.
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Thousands turn out for the funeral of Filipino film star Fernando Poe Jr who narrowly lost this year's presidential poll.
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MANILA Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos joined the funeral Wednesday for Fernando Poe Jr., the country&#39;s most popular actor, who nearly unseated President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the presidential election this year.
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Manila - Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral on Wednesday of the Philippines&#39; most famous movie star, defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe, held under tight security amid fears of unrest.
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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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GIRIBANGUN, Indonesia  - Tens of thousands of people lined the roads around Indonesia's royal city of Solo on Monday for the state funeral of autocratic former president Suharto at the family's mausoleum.
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Worshippers fill Westminster Cathedral as Anglican and Catholic church leaders pray together for tsunami victims.
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SOUTH-EAST Asia yesterday turned to the grim task of burying its multitudes of dead from the tsunami disaster. Tens of thousands of bodies lay unburied all across the region.
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into beaches and bars in some of Asia's most popular resorts,  killing thousands of people and stranding many more.
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Three years after Indian Ocean nations were lashed by massive tsunamis, sombre ceremonies were held Wednesday to recall those lost in one of the worst natural catastrophes in modern times.
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Wailing relatives gathered around dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India on Sunday after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed up to 3,000 people.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  about 2,000 people.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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THE world was united in grief last night, remembering the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, as fears grow that survivors will die from disease and the full death toll will never be known.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Up to 5 million people  around the Indian Ocean waited for food and clean water on  Thursday as nations hit by one of the biggest tsunamis on  record rush to bury their dead and avert the threat of disease.
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HOSPITALS overflowed with corpses and funeral homes were crammed with crowds as Sri Lanka continued to struggle with its largest natural disaster.
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Rescue workers dug decomposed corpses from ruined homes and hotels in this tsunami-devastated town Thursday, and a mass burial was held for some of the 547 people killed by the waves.