World Reins in New Year Festivities After Tsunami
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Australia led the world in a global  minute of silence, parties were canceled and trees on Paris's  grand Champs Elysees were shrouded in black as Asia's  devastating tsunami darkened global New Year celebrations.
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Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Fireworks and red lanterns mark the Lunar New Year across Asia, but the festivities herald abalone poaching season in Australia and New Zealand.
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Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik will rework the traditional New Year's address to the nation after the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Southeast Asia.
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The world's nations, generous with their aid since the Asian tsunami catastrophe, must take action to be prepared for and prevent such natural events from becoming mass killers, the U.N. emergency relief chief said Monday.
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Signs of the start of a return to normality emerge across Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia Saturday, as aid workers, troops and  grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of rotting  corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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A Kentucky widow, moved by the cries of grief she heard in reports about the tsunami disaster in south Asia, invited her entire town to a New Year's Eve bash to raise money for the victims. In California, a college offered free basketball tickets, with a gift for relief efforts the only price of admission.
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From Paris to Beijing, Hong Kong to London and beyond, musicians are beating the drum &#151; literally in their case &#151; for victims of the Asian tsunami with special concerts and songs. Hip-hop rhymers, classical orchestras, church choirs, punk bands, creamy-voiced crooners and others are taking up the fund-raising theme.
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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 ...
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 and aid agencies warned many more people  -- particularly children -- could die in epidemics, ushering in  a somber New Year's Eve for the world.
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Southeast Asian nations pledged Monday to work together to help the region's tourism industry recover from last month's tsunami, and launch a marketing drive to woo tourists back.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd-L) walks past bodies of victims of Sunday&#39;s tsunamis on a street in Banda Aceh December 28, 2004.
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LANGKAWI, Malaysia  - Southeast Asian nations  pledged Monday to work together to help the region's tourism  industry recover from last month's tsunami, and launch a  marketing drive to woo tourists back.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II celebrated a special Mass early yesterday in his private chapel for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. Later, he publicly praised the outpouring of aid for the stricken populations as a sign of hope for 2005.
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World leaders step up plans for a united response to Asian tsunamis as the 124,000 confirmed dead are mourned.
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Four Nordic nations were set to ring in the New Year in shock and mourning, faced with their deadliest catastrophe in modern times as people sat glued to news reports from Asia where thousands of their loved ...