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?Bandaachel, Indonesia, - Indonesian rescuers reported 10,000 dead in a single town and emergency crews in Sri Lanka found the twisted wreckage of a passenger train as the tsunami's death toll continued to spiral Tuesday. The body count rose to 44,000 dead in 11 countries by Tuesday afternoon local time, with thousands still missing and more than a million left homeless. A UN agency estimates that nearly a third of the dead are children. Emergency crews struggled through thick mud to reach isolated villages. Kiev - A prominent European human rights watchdog group is asking Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to accept his defeat at the hands of rival Viktor Yushchenko in Sunday's presidential runoff election. Yanukovych has vowed to appeal the results of the Dec. 26 vote, which showed him almost eight percentage points behind Yushchenko, the country's opposition leader. "I will never accept such a defeat because voters' constitutional rights weren't respected," he said Monday. Cairo - A man believed to be Osama bin Laden urged Iraqis to boycott next month's elections and endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his Iraqi deputy in an audiotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera television. Al-Zarqawi is the leader of a group linked to al-Qaeda that is believed to be behind a series of attacks that have killed hundreds in Iraq.
