Devastating Asian Tsunami Darkens World's New Year
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aircraft, naval vessels  and trucks struggled Friday to deliver aid around stricken  southern Asia as the death toll exceeded 124,000 from a tsunami  which darkened the world's New Year.
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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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A huge earthquake has hit southern Asia, setting off a tsunami that has drowned hundreds in Sri Lanka and India, sent Indonesians rushing to high ground and washed
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Aid workers trickling into Asia's  isolated tsunami-hit areas faced devastation on Thursday, with  towns and villages destroyed, countless people hunting water  and food -- and some of them growing ill or angry.
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 -- The tidal waves from the massive undersea earthquake smashed many tourist heavens in the Southeast Asian nations.
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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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All across Asia officials are counting the terrible toll from a powerful earthquake and tidal waves that have devastated the region.
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost seven children and his home to the tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Aceh province two years ago, but he believes there was a lesson in it for the war-weary province.
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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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BANGKOK - With the staggering numbers of dead and injured from the tsunami that struck South and Southeast Asia last weekend continuing to rise, the tragedy is quickly turning into one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.
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Normally exuberant New Year celebrations were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia's tsunami as several major cities canceled parties and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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Sri Lankans lit candles and chanted prayers for the dead to mark one month since the tsunami Wednesday, and mourners on a Thai island launched two new fishing boats in a first step toward rebuilding the devastated local fleet. On the hardest-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra, there were no memorials, but children went back to school and the empty desks of dead classmates.
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TORONTO - The disappearance of hundreds of Western tourists in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster has demonstrated - in a tragic fashion â-ow interconnected the world has become.
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PATONG BEACH, Thailand  - People held candles and  white roses on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, tearfully  embracing as they grieved, in a poignant symbol of the mood  which darkened New Year celebrations across the globe.
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Millions mark the start of 2005 with restraint amid global mourning for victims of the Asian earthquake.
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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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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into the beaches and bars of some of Asia's most popular  resorts, killing thousands of people and leaving hundreds of  thousands stranded.