Tests vindicate tsunami baby pair
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DNA tests back a Sri Lankan couple's claim that a baby boy rescued from the tsunami was their son.
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Jenita Jeyarajah says she will kill a rooster, smash coconuts and shave her child's head to fulfill her vows to the gods if the infant dubbed "Baby 81" &#151; found amid bodies and rubble after the Indian Ocean Tsunami &#151; is proven to be hers.
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A questioning of survivors has provided the most precise look to date at the tsunami's effects on the people living in the worst-hit part of the worst-hit country.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The infant dubbed "Baby 81" nurses from a bottle of milk and kicks playfully at a pink blanket as nine desperate, heartbroken women quarrel over him - all claiming he was torn from them by the tsunami.
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Nine women in Sri Lanka are reported to have claimed to be the mother of an unidentified infant rescued from the tsunami.
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She survived the tsunami, only to suffer the brutality of her rescuer. On a pilgrimage to a temple, the 18-year-old and her family stopped for a picnic by the beach. That's when the tsunami struck.
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A Sri Lankan baby found in the debris left by the tsunami is returned to his parents, after DNA tests confirmed he was their child.
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Mother of two Jillian Searle had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision. Swept up by mountainous tsunami waves at a Thai resort, she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has banned the adoption of children orphaned by a deadly tsunami until further notice after receiving unconfirmed reports that some children were snatched in the wake of the disaster, government officials said yesterday.
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As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago. "They believe their kids are alive and the sea will return them &#151; one day," UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy said on Sunday, after touring this island country's tsunami-devastated shore.
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International teams of forensic scientists have begun the grim task of identifying victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. The gruesome job of identifying victims has been made all the more daunting by the sheer number of bodies piling up in morgues.
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Langi Martinga, 50, a tsunami victim from the from Car Nicobar island, looks on at a relief camp in Port Blair, in India&#39;s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka -- A judge's ruling yesterday that a couple must undergo a DNA test to prove they are the parents of the tsunami survivor known as "Baby 81" sparked chaos in a hospital pediatric ward after a surging crowd and the would-be parents burst in and pleaded with doctors to release the infant.
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PARIS, Jan 17 (IPS) - After the race to give more and more to tsunami  victims comes a test of the opposite; who will be among the first  to say that enough is enough.
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Editor&#39;s note: Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs was on vacation in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit. The tsunami that surged across Asia Sunday split into two mighty
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A car damaged by Sunday&#39;s tsunami is perched on a rock at Khao Lak beach, about 900 km (560 miles) south of Bangkok, December 28, 2004.
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Thousands of bodies of tsunami victims are in Buddhist temples across southern Thailand. For many days before their graves were dug, they lay on the temples' concrete floors in 90-degree heat, which accelerated decomposition and complicated efforts to identify them. The scientists are relying on dental records and DNA to help their cause.