India wakes to day of mourning
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Church congregations in north-east India are preparing to hold special services after blasts and gun attacks killed at least 56 people on Saturday.
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Sobbing relatives of Hindu pilgrims killed at a temple carried bodies for cremation on Wednesday and poured out their anger at police for failing to protect worshippers trampled to death in a stampede during a massive religious procession. The death toll rose to 258.
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Tamil Tigers said they would observe a day of mourning to mark the one month anniversary of the tsunami tragedy that killed almost 31,000 Sri Lankans, many in the rebels' northeastern stronghold.
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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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FOR a British Prime Minister to stay on holiday when the world is mourning more than 129,000 dead is a colossal act of disrespect.
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AMSTERDAM -- Europeans from Riga to Rome will observe three minutes of silence today to remember the 150,000 people killed by the Asian tsunami and contemplate the millions of other lives devastated by the disaster. EU public buildings will fly flags at half-staff and governments will call for silence at noon. Luxembourg, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, has called ...
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By Khozem Merchant in Mumbai, Amy Kazmin in Bangkok and agencies. People were enjoying their Sunday morning stroll along the shore line of India&#39;s coastal villages on Sunday and young children were still asleep at home when a tsunami hit land.
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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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By YP Rajesh and Suresh Seshadri in Cuddalore and Madras, India. RESCUE workers pulled rotting corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India today, as the government warned the death toll of more than
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Tempers flared over the  sluggish pace of aid efforts in India's remote and restricted  Andamans and Nicobars Sunday as hundreds of bodies lay  scattered around the islands a week after the tsunami struck.
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Leading Indian dignitaries gather in Hyderabad for Saturday's state funeral of ex-premier PV Narasimha Rao.
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New Delhi - Indians from all walks of life led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ruling Congress party president Sonia Gandhi Sunday paid tribute to former premier Indira Gandhi on the 20th anniversary of her assassination.
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An uprooted tree lies on the beach as damaged buildings of Indian Air Force officers, where more than 100 people reportedly were killed by tidal waves, is seen in background, in Nicobar, in India&#39;s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Wednesday, Dec.
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Many among the mourners chanted for justice and blamed the government for their heroine's death. Others jostled to get a last glimpse of the flag-draped coffin. Some simply wept and hugged each other.
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Former Indian Prime  Minister PV Narasimha Rao is cremated in his home state, prompting seven days of mourning.
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India's efforts to show a face of shining prosperity to the outside world are bad news for the tens of thousands that sleep on the streets of its capital
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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.