Tsunami leaves children, parents alone
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When the raging ocean waters subsided, 7-year-old Karl Nilsson from Sweden thought he had been transported to another city. He was still in the same place, but his parents
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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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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By Khozem Merchant in Mumbai, Amy Kazmin in Bangkok and agencies. People were enjoying their Sunday morning stroll along the shore line of India&#39;s coastal villages on Sunday and young children were still asleep at home when a tsunami hit land.
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NAVALADY BEACH, Sri Lanka -- As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago.
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Four weeks after killer waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, a lone tsunami survivor was rescued from a remote island, a rare moment of hope among countless tales of grief and loss.
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health
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Killer tsunamis are coming again, over and over, in the nightmares of children who survived the waves which swept them from their homes or picnics on Malaysia's Penang island.
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In Indonesia alone, at least 100,000 people have died, making it the worst sufferer from the quake and tsunamis.
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Two-year-old Hannes Bergstroem doesn't understand much about the tsunami that swept him away from a beach in Thailand, though he "talks about 'the big stupid wave,'" his father said Friday.
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TORONTO (CP) - A charitable group for children is sending information kits to teachers across Canada to assist them in helping students understand the effects of tsunamis in southeast Asia that have inundated the world with haunting images of grief and destruction.
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Members of New England's Sri Lankan community came together in a Brighton church last night to remember their nation's enormous loss in this week's tsunami disaster, which claimed an estimated 30,000 lives in that country alone.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Residents fled coasts in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, heeding hollow warnings of new tsunamis Thursday, as pilots in Indonesia dropped food to remote villages yet to be visited by outsiders four days after the region&#39;s quake-and
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Two-year-old Hannes Bergstroem doesn't understand much about the tsunami that swept him away from a beach in Thailand, though he talks about 'the big stupid wave,' his father said Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesian schoolchildren  wept and prayed for thousands of missing classmates as  debris-littered schools reopened in devastated Aceh province on  Wednesday, a month after the Asian tsunami.
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The tragic news arrived in an e-mail sent Wednesday to Prashan Gomez of Natick. His aunt, Magdalene, was killed when the minivan she was riding in with other vacationing relatives was hit by a series of tsunami waves near the beach in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. Two other aunts remain missing, said Prashan's wife, Shimaali Fernando-Gomez.