Indonesia flood toll increases to 85 lives
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Floods which have inundated at least three Indonesian provinces including the capital Jakarta for more than a week have claimed 85 lives, according to officials.
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Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 20 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said.
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Flood waters receded in parts of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, but huge areas remained submerged heightening the risk of disease amid questions over why more had not been done to prevent the disaster.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least nine people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The death toll from flooding  in Colombia and Venezuela grew to more than 80 on Monday as  rescue workers found more corpses, the two countries'  governments said.
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Officials in Indonesia say the number of people killed there is now nearly 80,000 and the death toll from around the area is set to rise still higher.
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Fears of disease gripped Indonesia's flood-hit capital on Friday with thousands of people living in cramped emergency shelters and some streets still inundated a week after the city's worst floods in five years.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have  killed at least 20 people and made nearly 200,000 homeless,  with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet)  deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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The death toll from weekend flash floods in southwest Ethiopia has climbed to 194, state television said as rescuers fought heavy rains to save up to 20,000 people marooned by the waters.
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The toll from a severe earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra island last week has risen to 17 dead and 88 injured, a health ministry official said on Saturday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll from the massive tsunami that devastated the coastlines of Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa climbed to 52,000 Tuesday, as Indonesia (search) raised the number of dead in that country alone to 27,000.
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Floods which have inundated the Indonesian capital for more than a week have claimed 80 lives, officials said in the first definitive toll.
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As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77,000 and the Red Cross predicted it could pass 100,000.
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BEIJING: At least 90 people were killed and 77 remained missing after some of the worst rainstorms in recent years triggered landslides and flash floods in southwest China, disaster relief officials said yesterday.
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Basic supplies have not reached many parts of quake-ravaged Indonesia,  where the death toll reaches 80,000.
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Flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Xangsane have raised the death toll to more than 150 in the past week from the storm that hit Vietnam and the Philippines, officials said on Wednesday.
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Slow drainage of the flooded Indonesian capital of Jakarta hit a setback Tuesday when heavy rain began and water levels in the city stopped receding.  Officials said at least 36 people are known dead, and thousands of others were camping out on the roofs of their homes.