Devastating Asian Tsunami Darkens World's New Year
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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 exceeded 124,000 from a  devastating tsunami that darkened the world's New Year.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The new year began for  millions of tsunami survivors with grieving and trauma, but a  few of the luckier ones saw a ray of hope as the outside world  finally came to their rescue.
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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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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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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia said Wednesday it is scrapping its grand New Year celebration as it counts the cost of the destruction wreaked by the Asian tsunami that has killed at least 65 people in the country.
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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.
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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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Normally exuberant New Year's  celebrations will be tempered by thoughts for victims of south  Asia's tsunami, as several cities worldwide cancel parties and  Australia hopes to lead a global minute of silence.
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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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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.
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Indian Ocean nations 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 26,000 people 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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Logistical problems hampered a massive humanitarian relief operation along Asia&#39;s devastated shores as the death toll from a huge earthquake and killer tidal waves surged past 55,000.
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SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 28: The tsunami that has devastated parts of Asia and killed more than 28,400 has affected companies, economies and markets across the globe.
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The Asian tsunami disaster has been a uniquely continental catastrophe, striking hard from Thailand to the Maldives, and has stirred debate about how Asia should react as a region.
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A devastating tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake has killed more than 14,000 and left thousands of British holidaymakers stranded in Asia.
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SINGAPORE : The tsunamis that destroyed homes and beaches around Asia also wrecked countless holidays and disrupted travel plans. And for those caught in the thick of the action, it would be one trip they are not likely to forget.