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| Lanka toll soars as kin wail over bodies |
| Distraught Sri Lankans wandered through debris-strewn streets today, desperately looking for any sign of relatives swept away by a deadly tsunami that has killed at least 10,200 people in the country.
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| Dreaded 10,000 on Jakarta lips |
| Indonesian vice-president Jusuf Kalla said today the death toll from a tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean region could hit 10,000 in one area of his country alone.
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| Economic toll will be less |
| Fishing villages have been wiped out and money-spinning tourist resorts wrecked, but the economic cost of the giant seismic waves that swamped coasts across south Asia will
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| China threat |
| China?s military will crush any major moves towards independence by Taiwan, a Beijing government policy paper said today, prompting the self-governing island to accuse Beijin
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Angelina Jolie with her four-year-old adopted son Maddox (left) and a patient during a visit to the Children?s Cancer Centre in Beirut. (AFP) |
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