Exchange of New Year greetings overshadowed by SE Asia tragedy
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The devastating tragedy which hit South East Asia and claimed over 150,000 lives, hung like a cloud over yesterday's official exchange of New Year greetings, and flags on government buildings flew at half-mast ...
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Grieving friends, family and survivors of the Asian quake disaster gathered to see in the New Year, pausing in their grief to reflect on the tragic end to a sometimes brutal year.
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Pope John Paul ushered in the New Year with special prayers for the victims of the Asian tsunami on Saturday, the Catholic Church's World Day of Peace.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin onSunday sent condolences to leaders of the Asian nations which werehit by tidal waves caused by a devastating earthquake off Indonesia&#39;s northwest coast.
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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 ...
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As troops fight in Iraq and relief workers scurry to aid tsunami survivors in Asia, some Americans believe the inaugural festivities for Bush's second term are an unseemly show of extravagance.
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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  - 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  - Aircraft, naval vessels  and trucks struggled on Friday to deliver aid around stricken  southern Asia as the death toll hit 124,000 from a devastating  tsunami that darkened the world's New Year.
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President Bush&#39;s biggest adversaries from &quot;Old Europe&quot; extended a hand of friendship as the world greeted his re-election with a mixture of hope and disappointment.
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BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): Sorties by relief planes from diverse vicinities of the world with US, UK and Pakistan atop got intensified in the Tsunamis-hit realms of Asia Wednesday as the men in the field came-out with an update awful figure of deaths to the
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Hundreds began gathered at a majestic church in this Christian pilgrimage town in southern India for a solemn service to herald in the New Year and pray for thousands who perished when tsunamis battered the region a week ago.
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A moment of hesitation and social uncertainty hits all of us at this time of year, when we&#39;re about to exchange the greetings of the season.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Refugees in Indonesia's  tsunami-devastated Aceh province woke up on New Year's Day to a  depressing rain, but there were signs that critically needed  aid was finally starting to reach them.
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A death-like silence descended on Sri Lanka early Saturday as the country ushered in the New Year with prayers and mourning, six days after it lost nearly 30,000 people in its worst ever disaster.
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Normally exuberant New Year&#39;s celebrations will be tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia&#39;s tsunami, as several cities worldwide cancel parties and Australia hopes to lead a global minute of silence.