Somber 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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Dozens of mourners gathered in front of the Indonesian Embassy last night for a candlelight vigil for the victims of the tsunami that devastated South Asia.
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Indian Ocean nations from Indonesia to  Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury their dead and  help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew the final toll  would far exceed the 26,000 people reported killed.
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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 than 600 Italians had not been found.
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Authorities around the Asian region battered by the quake-tsunami tragedy that killed some 120,000 people scaled back or canceled celebrations Friday to mark the New Year.
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Swedes grieve the loss of many dead and missing in the Indian Ocean tsunami, writes Lars Bevanger in Stockholm.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aircraft, naval vessels  and trucks struggled Friday to deliver aid around stricken  southern Asia as the death toll passed more than 124,000 from a  tsunami that darkened the world's New Year.
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CALANG, Indonesia  - Hundreds of Indonesians prayed at mass graves in Aceh province on Wednesday, while in Thailand Buddhist monks held a ceremony to remember the many thousands who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami three years ago.
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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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For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt completely wrong.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to more than 52,000.
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PARIS -- For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt ''completely wrong." Paris, its heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along the Champs-Elysees. Elsewhere, prayers substituted for parties in the final minutes of 2004.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia said Wednesday it is scrapping its grand New Year celebration as it counts the cost of the destruction wreaked by the Asian tsunami that has killed at least 65 people in the country.
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As dawn broke Monday across the Bay of Bengal, countries struck by tsunamis in the wake of the most powerful earthquake the planet has seen in 40 years focused on relief and rescue efforts, and said the death toll from the giant
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Indian Ocean states from Indonesia to  Sri Lanka scrambled on Tuesday to cope with the widespread  devastation of a tsunami that killed over 23,000 people and  could claim more lives through disease and privation.
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With health officials warning that the death toll of more than 140,000 from last month's tsunami could jump sharply without a continual supply of aid, world leaders struggled Thursday to figure out the best way to help victims &#151; and to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again.
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India's capital New Delhi will shun New Year celebrations, with elite hotels and clubs cancelling festivities after the devastation caused by a massive tsunami across the Indian Ocean.