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Tsunami toll 125,000, huge relief effort mobilised BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Friday (Reuters) Asia's tsunami death toll soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions
struggled to find food and clean water and the world mobilised for what is
shaping up to be the biggest relief effort in history. U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, calling the disaster that has displaced 5
million people "an unprecedented global catastrophe and it requires
an unprecedented global response," said a half-billion dollars had
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