Nation Faces 'Higher Risk'  of Floods and Drought
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China faces a higher risk of natural disasters including floods and drought this year, according to a top official.  Water Resources Vice-Minister E Jingping told local authorities to prepare for torrential floods, typhoons and continued drought.
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans are at risk of disease, amid devastating floods, the UN warns.
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Up to 1.8 million people are at risk from cholera, measles, malaria and other killer diseases following major floods across the Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Parts of the UK are at a "serious" risk of flooding on Sunday, according to the Environment Agency.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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Much of Britain has been under flood alert as heavy rain sweeps across the country.
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A new approach to managing floods could result in some areas being flooded in Wales.
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The storms are expected to bring high winds, heavy rains and snow in the higher elevations.
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A number of homes in the Borders are flooded after winds and rain continues to batter much of the country.
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Householders in Wales brace themselves for more flooding and high winds and many roads remain closed.
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The head of the nation's weather and climate research agency says the biggest challenge facing the world is population growth and people's desire to live in coastal areas where they can be endangered by storms.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a conference on reducing the risks.
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Lakes, rivers and whole regions are drying up dangerously fast. And then there's the floods.
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North Korea could face famine after floods destroy crops, worsening food shortages, a study says.
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Communities devastated by last summer's flooding face prospect of more chaos after forecasters predicted week of severe weather
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An intense rainfall has forced evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday.
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More rain pushed flood waters higher in northern Illinois on Friday, threatening further havoc in a region where days of torrential thunderstorms have swamped thousands of homes and left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity.