Bolivia Declares El Nino Flood Disaster
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By DAN KEANE  LA PAZ, Bolivia - President Evo Morales on Wednesday officially declared months of deadly flooding a national disaster, committing some $50 million to the crisis that killed 35 people and affected some 72,000 families.
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MANILA, Philippines -- A powerful storm has triggered landslides and flash floods that have killed as many as 350 people in the eastern Philippines, according to officials.
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Heavy rains from Hurricane Felix soaked the hill country of Honduras on Wednesday, threatening dangerous flooding and mudslides as it approached the capital Tegucigalpa after killing four people in neighboring Nicaragua.
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President Hugo Chavez visited flood-ravaged Bolivia on Saturday to show off the fact that Venezuela has pledged 10 times more aid than the Bush administration. But local leaders gave him a cool reception, accusing him of meddling in Bolivian politics.
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Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in central Chile left at least 11 people dead and forced 30,000 to flee their inundated homes Wednesday, the government said.
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Latin America and the Caribbean face the risk of more climate-related disasters, a report warns.
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was &quot;unprecedented&quot; devastation wrought by tidal
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A plane carrying more than 150 people crash-landed in a bog in eastern Bolivia on Friday after fierce storms turned it away from its destination and it tried to reach another airport hundreds of miles away, according to officials and news reports. All on board survived.
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Colombia and Venezuela are hit by floods and landslides that kill more than 86 and leave thousands homeless.
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Bolivia's foreign minister said Thursday that the world has an obligation to send aid to flood-ravaged areas of Bolivia, linking a disaster that has killed 49 people to global climate change.
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Flooding and mudslides in northeastern Colombia killed at least 24 people and forced more than 30,000 from their homes, authorities said on Sunday.
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The torrential rains and flash flooding that have ravaged much of the country since midsummer killed 119 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes, officials said Wednesday.
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The State Department issued a warning Wednesday asking Americans to defer travel to Guyana because of flooding that has killed at least two people in the South American country over the past week.
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By Rene Villegas LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Anti-government protests inBolivia on Tuesday paralyzed two cities and pushed authoritiesto meet a key demand -- the cancellation of a water concessionrun by a foreign company.
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At least five people have been killed in severe floods in Indonesia's capital and surrounding areas with more than 100,000 left homeless after days of torrential rain, a disaster official said on Saturday.
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A powerful rainstorm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said Tuesday, and rescuers raced to save those stranded in three coastal towns before a typhoon strikes the hard-hit region.
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Paraguay declared a state of emergency in three northeastern provinces on Tuesday due to forest fires that have ravaged thousands of hectares (acres) of forests, crops and grazing pasture.