Nordic nations ring in New Year in mourning as thousands feared dead
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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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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Stricken Indian Ocean nations  worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as  experts warned disease could kill as many people as the 60,000  already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's tsunami.
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Stricken Indian Ocean nations worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as experts warned disease could kill as many people as the 60,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday&#39;s tsunami.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka searched among the wreckage of a  devastating tsunami for bodies to bury on Tuesday as fears grew  the toll would far exceed the 29,000 now reported killed.
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All around Asia, New Year&#39;s Eve celebrations are being cancelled, replaced by services to remember the more than 120,000 people killed in the earthquake and tsunami that it sent out.
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In Thailand the leaders of Canada, Sweden, Norway and Finland, which all lost citizens in the tragedy, were discussing reconstruction and efforts to identify the dead, while non-governmental organisations said ...
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Estonia, Finland and Sweden paid tribute on Tuesday to the 852 people killed a decade ago when their ferry sank in a storm on the Baltic Sea, the worst peacetime maritime disaster in modern European history.
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians and  1,000 Germans were still unaccounted for on Wednesday, three  days after their tropical paradise was devastated by Asia's  tsunami.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury  their dead and help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew  the final toll would far exceed the 27,700 people reported  killed.
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Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to more than 52,000.
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Authorities around the Asian region battered by the quake-tsunami tragedy that killed some 120,000 people scaled back or canceled celebrations Friday to mark the New Year.
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Sweden has confirmed that 59 of its people have been killed by the tsunami, but with 3,500 still missing, Prime Minister Goran Persson said that the toll could rise to more than 1,000. Swedes and Norwegians in ...
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As the coffins of the first Swedish victims were brought home, Europe was to fall silent in memory of thousands of its nationals now thought to have been consumed by the tsunamis in south Asia.
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Tens of thousands of people in Finland face a cold and dark Christmas after severe storms left much of the country without power.
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Millions are marking the start of 2005 with restraint amid global mourning for victims of the Asian earthquake.
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THE prime ministers of Sweden, Norway and Finland will next week visit Thailand, where most of the northern European nationals missing or killed in the tsunamis were vacationing, officials said today.