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Stories for January 2nd 2005

  • Sunday, January 2nd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Argentina: Grief mixed with fury.

    Relatives of the 177 people who died in a fire that broke out on Thursday night in a Buenos Aires rock club yesterday started burying their bodies as some 3,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the local City Hall blaming Mayor Aníbal Ibarra for Argentina's worst non natural disaster ever

  • Sunday, January 2nd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Devastation darkens world's New Year.

    Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said the toll “may be approaching 150,000” as the United States increased its aid pledge tenfold to 350 million dollars.