At least five dead in Australia storms
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Five people were confirmed dead and another three 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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Powerful Typhoon Chaba hit southwestern Japan on Monday, leaving five people dead, 54 injured, and four freighter crew members missing since Sunday, and paralyzing transportation systems in the region.
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Nine people were confirmed dead and 15 unaccounted for in Australia's deadliest bushfires for 20 years as firefighters battled blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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Severe storms crossing the  south-central United States late on Friday and early on  Saturday produced heavy rains and flooding and caused at least  five deaths, local officials said.
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Five people were dead and four still  missing Sunday as Japan began a clean-up after the most  powerful typhoon to hit the Tokyo region in a decade.
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Australian emergency services on Friday said seven people were feared missing as fierce storms hit the country&#39;s east coast, with five swept away when a highway collapsed in torrential rain.
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Residents on Australia's northwest coast braced for a second cyclone Saturday as emergency crews mopped up after a storm that killed two people and injured at least two dozen others.
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The death toll from the wild storms lashing Australia&#39;s east coast rose to at least eight Sunday as hundreds of people prepared to evacuate their homes with flooding expected to worsen.
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PETER CAVE: Ten Australian citizens and permanent residents have been confirmed dead, a dozen are officially missing, while as many as 5,000 are still unaccounted for since the tsunamis hit on Boxing Day.
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Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia and killed at least five people.
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The death toll from a violent storm and  torrential rain lashing Australia&#39;s east coast rose to six,  police said on Saturday, as residents braced for a second  turbulent night.
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AT least 14 people were reported dead today after fierce storms swept across Denmark, Sweden and the UK, flooding homes, cutting power, disrupting road and rail traffic and causing heavy damage.
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Typhoon Chaba tore across southwestern  Japan Monday, killing at least five people and knocking out  electricity for thousands as it swirled its way north, dumping  heavy rain and whipping up huge seas.
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Floods killed five people in Texas including a five-year-old girl and her grandmother who were swept away after torrential rain lashed the north of the state, local media reported.
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Australians battled both fires and some of the worst flooding in decades Monday that stranded residents in several communities after days of intense summer heat and storms.
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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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Central Japan&#39;s strongest typhoon in a decade left at least five people dead and five others missing as it swept through the region, halting air and rail operations before losing strength off the Pacific coast northeast of Tokyo.