Asia Struggles with Tsunami Death, Destruction
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Survivors in seven countries  on the shores of the Indian Ocean scrabbled frantically through  debris and devastation for their loved ones on Tuesday as the  death toll climbed inexorably toward 40,000.
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Two of nature's most powerful forces &#151; a monster earthquake and a massive tsunami &#151; teamed up in southern Asia to cause death, human misery and destruction on a scale rarely seen before.
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Confirmed deaths and warnings that disease could multiply the horror of Asia's tsunami catastrophe took estimates of the final toll to over 100,000 as the world's biggest ever relief operation stuttered into life against enormous odds.
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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 Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Relief workers struggled  to save millions of victims of Asia's tsunami disaster on  Saturday as the rising death toll dimmed New Year celebrations  across the globe.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster ticked relentlessly upward to top 125,000 as clocks ticked down to a desolate new year in countries struggling to get food and water to millions facing starvation and disease.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find  food and clean water and the world mobilized for what is  shaping up to be the biggest relief effort in history.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Three weeks after the  Asian tsunami, people near and far paused to remember the dead  but hundreds of bodies rotting by the sea showed how much still  has to be done to make life bearable for survivors.
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The major obstacles to creating an  early-warning system that could have saved many victims of  Asia's massive tsunami are not money and technology, but  poverty and political and cultural division besetting the  region it hit, experts and officials said on Monday.
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Devastated coastal areas across Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing, one
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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world pumped aid into  the tsunami zone around south Asia on Friday in a frantic race  to save millions of survivors from dehydration and disease, and  stop a terrifying death count climbing further.
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At least 140,339 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa's eastern coast, most killed by massive tsunamis that smashed coastlines on Dec. 26. The United Nations estimates the total number of dead will exceed 150,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations put  the latest death toll in Asia's tsunami at around 150,000 and  warned it could still soar as relief workers were confronted by  huge devastated areas without roads, bridges and airstrips.
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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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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead lined up on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed at least  12,600.
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Recovery and aid efforts are daunting challenges throughout much of Asia in the wake of Sunday&#39;s tsunami, but in Sri Lanka and Sumatra&#39;s Aceh province those tasks are severely complicated by years of unrest.