26 killed as tornadoes batter US
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Tornadoes rip across four US states, causing death and destruction
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Tornadoes ripped across the  Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday, killing at  least 14 people including eight in the southern Alabama town of  Enterprise, emergency management officials said.
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Tornadoes swept through southern Missouri around dawn Thursday, damaging homes and businesses and killing at least one person a few hours after another twister touched down in Kansas, authorities said.
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Severe thunderstorms and at  least one tornado killed 19 people on Friday when they ripped  through Florida in the dead of night, tearing homes to shreds,  toppling heavy trucks and leaving a trail of rubble.
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Six people died, thousands of homes were blacked out and air traffic delayed as violent storms hit northern France. Tourist hotspots like the Eiffel Tower reopened today after yesterdayâs hurricane-force
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Deadly tornadoes tear across four Southern states in a deadly spasm of rare violent winter weather.
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High winds, heavy rain and tornadoes pounded parts of the Midwest and the South, leaving at least eight people dead, stranding people in cars, forcing others from their homes and leaving thousands without power.
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Tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Ivan claimed at least two lives and waves lashed onto shore as the US Gulf Coast today felt the first impact of the storm whose full fury was expected during the night.
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Tornadoes tore across Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, killing at least nine people.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least eight people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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Tornadoes plowed across the South from Texas to Alabama, killing four people, wrecking homes and businesses in rural areas and the New Orleans suburbs, and turning trees to kindling.
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Rescue efforts are under way in  southern US states after a series of tornadoes killed at least 20 people.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least 19 people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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Hurricane Ivan slammed into the US Gulf Coast, launching tornadoes, washing out major bridges and leaving a path of death and destruction from the Florida panhandle to lower Alabama.
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Hurricane Ivan killed at least two  people on Wednesday as it began to batter U.S. shores with high  winds and ferocious surf, touching off tornadoes that ripped  through coastal cities.
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Rescuers in Florida search for survivors after storms and a tornado kill at least 19 people in the US state.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 250 people and injured at least 380 in northern Haiti, the United Nations said. UN spokeswoman Denise Cook said the bodies of 250 people were in