Asian Tsunami Disaster
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UNICEF (news - web sites)&#39;s Executive Director Carol Bellamy sits in a meeting at the United Nations (news - web sites) in New York, December 30, 2004.
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Rarely has such a far-off tragedy seemed so close to home. News of Asia's devastating tsunami reached the living rooms of most Americans in a matter of just hours, through dramatic video taken by tourists, Internet postings and cell phones. The catastrophe has tugged at heartstrings in a way few international disasters have.
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Aerial photographs of the devastation caused by the tsunami that hit Indian Ocean countries on 26 December.
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coral isles for missing tourists as Asia counted the cost of a tsunami that killed at least 12,600. world&#39;s biggest earthquake in 40 years that struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra early on Sunday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 22 -- A lone tsunami survivor has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said Saturday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean since the giant waves struck on Dec. 26.
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The BBC's correspondents report on the devastation caused by Sunday's tsunamis across the Indian Ocean.
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MADRAS, 28 December 2004 - Grief and anguish marked final rituals across Southeast Asia yesterday as relatives buried or cremated their loved ones; and the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed crossed 25,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Thursday as millions scrambled for food  and clean water and rumors of new giant waves sent many fleeing  inland in panic.
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About 3,000 people were killed, over 2,000 in Sri Lanka alone, and many more reported missing as a massive earthquake hit Sumatra island of Indonesia triggering huge tidal waves in coastal parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000  on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The world's biggest  earthquake in 40 years hit south Asia Sunday, unleashing a  tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka and India and swamped  tourist isles in Thailand and the Maldives, killing more than  6,300 people.
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A huge earthquake has hit southern Asia, setting off a tsunami that has drowned hundreds in Sri Lanka and India, sent Indonesians rushing to high ground and washed
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HONG KONG  - At least 1,000 people have been killed and hundreds more are injured or missing as tsunami tidal waves unleashed by a massive earthquake off Indonesia hit the region.
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Massive tsunamis triggered by the largest earthquake to shake the planet in more than 40 years wiped out coastal areas across Asia as far as 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) away, killing more than 11,000 people.
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Nearly 220,000 people are confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami after Indonesia raises its toll dramatically.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in the  earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Asia has topped 6,300,  officials and local media said Sunday.
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Asia&#39;s tsunami death toll has soared above 125,000 as millions struggle to find food and clean water and persistent rumours of new giant waves send many fleeing inland in panic.