Floods strike eastern Australia
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Heavy rains caused flooding across parts  of eastern Australia on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of  hundreds of people as rural towns throughout the area were put  on flood alert.
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A firefighter died and more than a dozen houses in two states were razed by wildfires that flared across south-eastern Australia yesterday as high temperatures and blustery winds whipped up massive firestorms.
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A powerful rainstorm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said Tuesday, and rescuers raced to save those stranded in three coastal towns before a typhoon strikes the hard-hit region.
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Six people were confirmed dead and another two 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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Australia's worst storm in 30 years has lashed the country's east coast, killing at least seven people and leaving a trail of destruction, writes Barbara McMahon in Sydney.
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Lake Erie surged over its eastern shore Wednesday, adding flooding to the headaches delivered by a windy storm that tipped tractor-trailers, disrupted flights, and toppled trees and power lines across a wide swath of the nation.
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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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Thousands of villagers are displaced and hundreds stranded  as floods hit eastern Angola.
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Storms in eastern India and Bangladesh   have killed more than 170 people and left around 375,000   homeless over the past four days, officials said on Saturday.
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Flames fanned by strong winds and high temperatures hamper firefighters tackling bush fires in south-eastern Australia.
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MARAGUNDON, Philippines - A powerful rainstorm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said yesterday.
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A freak summer hail storm left ice blanketed across large parts of Australia's drought-hit capital Canberra on Wednesday, forcing some businesses and government departments to close due to storm and flood damage.
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Floods on the east coast of peninsula Malaysia kill 11 and force more than 10,000 to evacuate.
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A powerful cyclone ripped across Australia's northwestern coast on Friday, tearing roofs from houses in remote towns and laying waste to at least one mining camp. Officials said at least one person was killed and 20 injured.
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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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Thousands of people remain stranded by some of the worst flooding in eastern Australia for 20 years.
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Thousands of Australians started  returning home on Monday after floods and storms in the  wine-making Hunter Valley area eased, but residents downstream  near the city of Newcastle braced for floodwaters, officials  said.