Nearly 340 people killed as second storm in a week slams eastern ...
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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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Storm waters that had receded washed back into many low-lying areas of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday following overnight rain, piling on the misery for some 340,000 people forced from their homes in the city where at least 29 have died after days of torrential rain.
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Torrential rains in eastern and southwestern China have taken at least another 38 lives as a grim rainy season continued, with hundreds killed since the start of the month, state press said Thursday.
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MARAGUNDON, Philippines -- A powerful rainstorm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said yesterday, and rescuers raced to save those stranded in three coastal towns before a typhoon strikes the hard-hit region.
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TYPHOON Aere killed two people and destroyed more than 10,000 houses on China&#39;s mainland this week, the country&#39;s government said.
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Rescuers in northeastern India have recovered at least 23 more bodies after flash floods, bringing the death toll from new rains in the state of Assam to at least 88.
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Heavy storms, landslides,  flash floods and lightning have killed at least 23 people in  Europe and Turkey, officials said on Monday.
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Landslides and flash floods caused by a powerful storm Wednesday killed more than 400 people. âAnother 177 people are still missing after typhoon Winnie deluged Quezon province, about 64 kilometres east
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Torrential rains and a tornado killed at least 30 people as storms battered eastern China this week, with millions more affected by flooding and other storm damage, state media and officials said Thursday.
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Australia's worst storm in 30 years has lashed the country's east coast, killing at least seven people and leaving a trail of destruction, writes Barbara McMahon in Sydney.
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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Tropical Storm Earl unleashed heavy rains and violent winds that felled trees and ripped off roofs Sunday in the eastern Caribbean, while hundreds of people sought refuge in shelters...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Hurricane Ivan, one of the  most powerful storms the Caribbean has ever seen, began to lash  the tiny Cayman Islands on Sunday after gutting homes and  washing away roads in Jamaica and killing 44 people throughout  the Caribbean.
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Six people were confirmed dead and another two were missing on Saturday as wild storms continued to lash Australia&#39;s east coast, smashing boats, flooding roads and cutting power to 200,000 homes.
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Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The preliminary toll from the last typhoon that hit the eastern Philippines was almost 500 dead and 350 missing.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Waves two stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore yesterday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to at least 33.
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The Caribbean nation of Jamaica became the second major victim of Hurricane Ivan yesterday as waves the height of two-storey houses and 155mph winds smashed into the island.
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Extreme weather hit Europe Saturday as the death toll from a heat wave in Romania, Austria and Bulgaria rose to 18 and hundreds faced another night of misery in flood-drenched England.