Scandinavians, Germans brace for casualty reports from Asia
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STOCKHOLM -- People in Scandinavia and Germany, fond of viewing Asia as a winter refuge, faced up to the possibility that a tsunami had turned a tropical paradise into hell for hundreds of friends and loved ones.
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Sweden now seems likely to be the Western country hardest hit by the tsunamis that wrecked the southern Asian coastlines the day after Christmas and killed more than 100,000 people.
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It&#39;s feared that well over four-thousand people might have been killed across southeast and south Asia, by the after effects of the earthquake.
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Armies of officials are tabulating the deaths caused by the tsunami that struck a dozen countries in Asia and Africa last weekend. The grim task is often imprecise.
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STOCKHOLM, Nov 1  - Prime ministers of the five Nordic countries meeting here on Monday said they were worried by a US warning of potential terror attacks in the region, but claimed that security was high enough to ward off the threat.
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Danish papers consider anti-terrorism raids in the city of Odense, while the German press discusses the mandate under which the country's navy may operate in Lebanese waters. Elsewhere, Africa is in the spotlight but for different reasons.
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European insurers face new costs and travel firms could lose business after tsunami waves killed more than 21,500 in Asia this weekend, but the financial impact is expected to be limited compared with other disasters this year.
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The United States has warned its citizens in the Nordic and Baltic states to be extra vigilant after receiving &quot;threat information&quot; on the eve of the US presidential election.
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With world and regional leaders meeting in Indonesia to discuss their response to the Asian tsunami disaster, papers in Germany and France attempt to gauge just how much aid is required.
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The threat of a terrorist attack against Germans in Afghanistan &#151; or even suicide bombings in Germany itself &#151; appears to be on the rise in recent days, officials said Friday.
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Scandinavian countries fear the tsunami killed hundreds of their nationals in Thailand, along with other tourists.
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When a US serviceman or woman is injured anywhere in the world, chances are, they'll wind up at the military's huge hospital in Germany.
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Hundreds are reported dead in Sri Lanka and many other countries are affected, from India to Indonesia. Readers of the BBC News website have been sending in their own experiences of the disaster.
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The Asian tsunami tragedy is feared to have claimed at least 50 British lives, with many more still unaccounted for. Back home, scores of families face an anxious wait for news of loved ones missing after the Boxing Day disaster.
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Aid teams rushed from Europe to southern Asian countries devastated by tidal waves Sunday, warning that anything less than an urgent response would add many more deaths to a toll already in the thousands.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Western holidaymakers -- especially Scandinavians -- bore the brunt of deadly tidal waves that hit Thailand, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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WASHINGTON: The US yesterday warned its citizens living in or passing through the Nordic and Baltic states of imminent terrorist attacks in crowded public places in those countries.