Sri Lanka says floods displace 175,000
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Flash flooding in east and central Sri Lanka has forced 175,000 people from their homes, with many seeking refuge in makeshift welfare centers in schools and temples, officials said on Monday.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Thousands of frantic Sri  Lankans searched corpse-strewn rubble for relatives along the  Indian Ocean island's devastated coastline on Tuesday as the  nation's death toll from a deadly tsunami rose above 12,200.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared past 175,000 Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands  more dead, while fears re-emerged over the safety of aid  workers in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province.
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Sri Lanka's economy has shown remarkable resilience in the past five years, enduring frequent floods, droughts and two decades of civil war, to average growth rates of between 4 and 5 per cent.
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MANILA, December 2 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Some 1,000 people were reported dead or missing after a series of powerful storms triggered landslides and floods across the Philippines, rescuers said Thursday, December 2, as a new and even more
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Some 75% of the Indonesian capital Jakarta is now affected by floods that have killed 25 people, officials say.
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The death toll due to the landslides and floods caused by a tropical storm in the northern Philippines has risen to 74, the Philippine government said Tuesday.
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At least 2,425 people, including many children and the elderly, were confirmed dead and about 1,600 wounded in Sri Lanka on Sunday as tsunami waves smashed into the island.
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DHAKA/NEW DELHI  - Storms that battered Bangladesh   and eastern India have killed more than 170 people and left   many missing, navy and coastguard officials said on Saturday.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lankans have made huge  progress in clearing the rubble left in the wake of the deadly  Indian Ocean tsunami and thousands of displaced people have  left camps for the homeless, officials and aid groups say.
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The disastrous tidal waves that killed nearly 11,000 people in Sri Lanka have severely hit the island's economy, former prime minister and leader of the opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe warned.
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COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka mounted a massive humanitarian operation after tsunamis devastated much of the island&#39;s coastline, killing almost 11,000 people of whom 70 were foreign tourists.
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Sri Lanka's worst tsunami in living memory has killed 2,498 people and affected over one million more, or around 5 percent of the Indian Ocean island's population, the government said on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with more than 2,400 dead and up to a million displaced.
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Indonesia's main island of Java was hit  by further flooding on Tuesday, bringing the total number of  dead or missing people from recent rain-related disasters to  121, officials said.
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About 40 people are missing after floods triggered by heavy rain swept away a bridge in Indonesia's East Java province, police said on Thursday.
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More than 200 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say.