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By Fiona Luis and Doug Bailey, Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent | December 27, 2004. PENANG, Malaysia -- On any normal Sunday, the public beaches at Batu Ferringhi on this island state are filled with a
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Fishermen who saw much of their seasonal fishing village swept away by the Indian Ocean tsunamis said they were too scared to return to sea, fearing a repeat of the deadly disaster.
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Fears were growing today for tourists who were diving off Thailand when the earthquake struck. Two divers are reported to have drowned off the Thai coast and 40 more are thought to be
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Coastguards warn lives are put at risk by people not knowing who to phone for help, as a safety campaign begins.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into beaches and bars in some of Asia's most popular resorts,  killing thousands of people and stranding many more.
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Frightened foreigners, many of them longtime residents of this country, piled into buses, boats and planes Saturday as a French-run evacuation widened, despite
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Panicked residents scrambled to flee three storm-ravaged coastal Philippine towns on Sunday while rescuers made last-ditch attempts to find survivors of the powerful storm that left more than 1,100 dead and missing.
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A string of Indian islands were rattled by aftershocks today while emergency aid was rushed to survivors of the tsunami waves that killed at least 4,300 people along the nationâs south-eastern coast.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Millions of people on  Indian Ocean shores scrambled for food and clean water on  Thursday, as disease, thirst, hunger and panic threatened  survivors of the most devastating tsunami on record.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 20--A coastal community can never have too many qualified lifesavers on the beach.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- Thousands of European tourists were beginning their day with breakfast or by sunning themselves on Thailand's white sand beaches when massive waves triggered by an earthquake swept people, bungalows, boats, and cars out to sea.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CBS) Thousands fled their homes Thursday as authorities in southern India warned new tidal waves could be brewing, possibly within a matter of hours, as a result of undersea quake aftershocks that are pushing up the water level in
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This is no joke: It's a typical day at sunny Main Beach and a dozen people are wandering around with their hands in the air, laughing hysterically, squawking like chickens and talking gibberish.
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Bodies washed up on tropical beaches and piled up in hospitals Monday, raising fears of disease across a 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and walls of water that killed more than 22,000 people. Thousands were missing and millions homeless.
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Rescuers were praying for &quot;individual miracles&quot; of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand on Wednesday for thousands of missing tourists and locals swept away by tidal waves.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.