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Boxing Day tsunami: ‘Surviving the disaster gave me a second chance’

Ani Naqvi was almost killed in the 2004 disaster but used the experience to give her a new purpose.
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Korean opposition moves to impeach acting president

SEOUL – South Korea’s opposition will push for a vote on Friday on an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, after he refused to appoint Constitutional Court judges to complete the process of removing his predecessor from office.
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Peebles hoard unearthed after 3,000 years finds home at National Museums Scotland

The acquisition was announced four years after metal detectorist Mariusz Stepien uncovered the hoard in a field.
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20 years after a devastating tsunami, a survivor celebrates what the disaster has given him

The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest natural disaster so far.
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Boxing Day tsunami: ‘It was an overwhelming loss’

People from the South East who were touched by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami look back 20 years on.
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South Korean opposition submits motion to impeach the country’s acting president as strife deepens

South Korea’s main opposition party has submitted a motion to impeach the country’s acting leader over his reluctance to fill three Constitutional Court vacancies ahead of the court’s review of rebellion charges against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol stemming from his short-lived martial law decr
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Video | Deadly Plane Crash In Kazakhstan: 38 Killed, 29 Survive

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Biden orders Pentagon to boost arms deliveries to Ukraine after Christmas attack

Biden condemned Russia’s missile and drone attacks targeting Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure aimed at depriving citizens of heat and electricity during winter. Read also: Pentagon rushes to spend remaining $6.7 billion in aid for Ukraine “Let me be clear: the Ukrainian people deserve to live in peace and safety, and the United States …
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‘We couldn’t find their bodies’: Indonesian tsunami survivors mourn the dead

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia’s Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the area two decades ago.It is one of several prayer sites across western Indonesia — including a grand mosque and other mass graves — holding ceremonies that drew thousands of mourners who remember the December 26, 2004, tsunami.
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Opinion | 20 Years Ago a Tsunami Killed 230,000 People. We Can Do Better Now.

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.