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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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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Prayers replaced parties to mark New Year's in much of Asia, and in Europe black cloth draped the Champs Elysees, as sorrow over the death and destruction from this week's quake and tsunamis overshadowed celebration.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Markets reopened,  fishermen got new boats and the sea even got a cleanup as  people chipped away at the endless task of undoing the  tsunami's damage.
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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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Signs of the start of a return to some form of normality emerge across Indonesia's tsunami-hit province of Aceh.
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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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PORT BLAIR, India, Jan. 4 -- It was just before sunset on the first day of the new year. The helicopter circled above Campbell Bay Island for hours, searching for tsunami survivors marooned on the southernmost points of the Nicobar Islands.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Markets reopened,  fishermen got new boats and the sea even got a cleanup on  Saturday as people toiled to undo the Asian tsunami's damage.
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Sweden, Finland and Norway hold a day of mourning for their hundreds of victims of the Asian tsunami.
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Britain's cities are preparing to mark the New Year with firework displays, concerts and sports events, but the celebrations will be overshadowed by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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About 450 people were injured by stray bullets and firecrackers as the Philippines held its traditionally raucous New Year festivities, but the number was far less than in previous years, authorities said on Tuesday.
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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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SYDNEY - Normally exuberant New Year celebrations were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asiaâs tsunami as several major cities cancelled parties and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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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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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.