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Aid pours amid rush to ward off disease
BANDA ACEH (INDONESIA), DEC. 29. From Indonesia to India, workers rushed to bury corpses to ward off disease on Wednesday as cargo planes touched down with promised aid — from lentils to water purifiers — to help the region cope with ...

Work on alert system "soon"
LOS ANGELES, DEC. 29.International disaster officials will likely lay down the groundwork for a life-saving Indian Ocean Tsunami alert system at a meeting as early as next month, a top expert said. Talks about setting up a warning system ...

Sri Lanka faces an aid challenge
COLOMBO, DEC. 29. Trucks and cargo planes ferried food, drinking water and medical supplies on Wednesday to some of the 1 million Sri Lankans left homeless by the massive Asian tsunami, amid reports that some supplies were being hijacked. ...

She gave New York life its brilliance
LONDON, DEC. 29. Susan Sontag, the "Dark Lady" of American intellectual life for over four decades, has died of cancer. She was 71. Ms. Sontag was a tall, handsome, fluent and articulate woman. She settled in New York, where she lived, off and ...

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Many killed in Baghdad blast

Survivors' words say it all

Sri Lanka hopes for reconciliation

Efforts on to trace over 30 Indians in Thailand

Tsunamis past: a trail of destructive fury

Cabinet meet cancelled

Tracking technology at work in Sri Lanka

Pakistan proposes 'final' meeting on Baglihar project

Miracle on a mattress

Gaps in perception of India, Pakistan on Kashmir

Saved by their sixth sense?

CIA official to step down

ID cards for summit

The tsunami bloggers have their day

Recount cuts Bush's total

New turn to `Behzti' row

Blasts rock Riyadh

"Play had approval of Sikh elders"

Pakistan offers relief

U.S. forms coalition to coordinate relief

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