Australia storm death toll rises
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At least five people are now confirmed dead as wild storms continue to batter eastern Australia, officials say.
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China began mopping up after sustaining heavy damage from Typhoon Aere, as the death toll from the ferocious storm continued to rise in Taiwan and the Philippines.
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KILLER tsunamis unleashed by an earthquake have wiped out more than 23,000 lives, with at least two Australians dead and 100 missing.
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Rescue workers are urging thousands of people to evacuate their homes after deadly storms lashed Australia&#39;s east coast, leaving parts of one city looking like an earthquake had struck, officials said Sunday.
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Bloated bodies and weeping relatives filled mortuaries today as Tropical Storm Jeanne killed more than 570 Haitians with the toll expected to rise.
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At least three people are feared dead and up to 20 hurt, after a powerful cyclone hits north-west Australia.
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The death count across Asia and Africa soared to nearly 77,000 and aid officials said it was likely to surpass 100,000, even as as workers rushed to bury corpses to ward off disease, report newswires.
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The death toll from the Asian tsunami soared towards the 100,000 mark today as officials feared the number of British victims could rise steeply.
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A series of after shocks rocked Indonesia Friday raising the death toll from the original powerful quake to at least 16, Sky News reported.
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The death toll from floods unleashed by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose sharply to nearly 2,000 people, with many still missing, as officials said they found hundreds more bodies in Haiti's devastated northwestern region.
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The death toll from Sunday&#39;s quake-tsunami devastation rocketed to more than 120,000 on Thursday as workers uncovered more bodies from Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island.
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Eight people were confirmed dead and at least seven others were still missing after Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years swept parts of two southern states.
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The death toll from massive tidal waves that struck Sri Lanka&#39;s coastline leapt to more than 12,000 on Monday as thousands of soldiers and families kept up the search for bodies.
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NEW DELHI/JAKARTA/NEW YORK - The death toll in the tsunamis that ripped across Southeast and South Asia climbed above 24,000 on Tuesday as emergency and government officials said two days after the disaster that they feared the number of victims would
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The mercilessness of  Asia's tsunami grew clearer on Thursday as worst-hit Indonesia  sharply raised its death toll, taking the number of fatalities  around the whole Indian Ocean region above 120,000.
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A firestorm razed up to 15 houses and led to the death of a man as bushfires raging across thousands of square kilometers of Australia began overrunning country hamlets, officials said.
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The death toll from last month's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rose towards a quarter of a million while floods hampered relief efforts in worst-hit Indonesia's Aceh province.