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...found him alive. As the week wore on, Europe's stunned horror gave way to action. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder cut short his holiday to help direct relief efforts and pledged $27 million in aid; France promised $56 million and sent Foreign Minister Michel Barnier to Thailand; Sweden offered $76 million; and the British government kicked in $96 million. Britons raised another $114 million for a consortium of charities by Saturday. Corporations throughout Europe made donations, often matching their employees' contributions. Austria, Norway and Sweden were among the countries that declared national days of mourning, and most countries...
...collecting bodies from the normally green lawn in front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only...
...CARE CARE volunteers in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand are providing survivors with water purification tablets and oral rehydration salts to combat water-borne diseases...
...Governments and banks are only beginning to make their assessment of the economic impact of the tsunamis, with current estimates running to $10 billion. Huge swathes of farmland have been scoured by the salt water and may take years to recover. Thailand's tourism economy - a primary foreign exchange earner - has been devastated: While a natural disaster wouldn't discourage tourists from returning in the way that a terror strike might, its tourism infrastructure has been badly damaged and, more importantly, so have many of its pristine beaches and coral reefs...
...statute, the Unocal case is the first time that a defendant has concluded a settlement under which compensation will be paid. "I'm thrilled with the outcome of this case," said Katherine Redford of Washington D.C.-based law firm EarthRights International, who conceived of the suit after visiting the Thailand?Burma border a decade ago as a law student. "General counsel for corporations around the world will pay considerable attention to this settlement," says Sean Murphy, a professor of international law at the George Washington University Law School. Saw Tuday Kaw of the Karen Information Committee, a group of refugees...