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EU to commemorate tsunami victims

The European Union will hold a three-minute silence at 12pm (11am GMT) today to commemorate the victims of the tsunami as the official death toll rises to around 150,000.

The EU is asking "the whole of the European Union to observe three minutes of silence in order to show solidarity and mourn the victims of the disaster," said a European Commission spokesperson on Tuesday (4 January).

Several European Commissioners plus the head of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell, will con...

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