Indonesian president declares mudslide zone a disaster area
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Indonesia's president has declared a part of East Java swamped by a mudspill a disaster zone and ordered that some 3,000 families be permanently relocated, a minister said.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least 20 people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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Thousands of Indonesians were cleaning  up mud and debris from their flood-damaged homes on Saturday  after rains eased and waters that forced many into cramped  emergency shelters begin to subside.
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President Bush has declared a state of major disaster in the storm-ravaged southern US state of Florida, hit by four strong hurricanes since last month.
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The Indonesian meteorology agency issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday after an undersea quake at 6.6 strength on the Richter scale hit offshore East Timor.
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DARAGA, Philippines -- The Red Cross estimated yesterday that up to 1,000 people may have died in the typhoon that unleashed walls of black mud on entire villages in the Philippines. The country's president declared a state of national calamity.
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A mud volcano that forced  more than 15,000 people to abandon their homes on the  Indonesian island of Java in 2006 has breached the barriers  built to contain it, causing further damage, police said.
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Floods that have crippled much of Indonesia's capital worsened Sunday, inundating scores of districts and leaving about 145,000 homeless, officials and witnesses said.
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Indonesia issued a tsunami warning on Tuesday after a strong earthquake struck off the Moluccas islands in the country's east, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd-L) walks past bodies of victims of Sunday&#39;s tsunamis on a street in Banda Aceh December 28, 2004.
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President Bush expressed his condolences Sunday to the victims of the massive earthquake and tidal waves that hit southern and southeast Asia.
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Jakarta (VNA) - In his first public statement since the second round of the Indonesian presidential run-off election, presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for national unity and warned of difficulties facing the country.
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At least 17 people were killed, over 130 injured and more than 300 homes destroyed Friday when an earthquake hit a town in Indonesia&#39;s Papua province for the second time in nine months, officials said.
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The death toll from massive flooding in Indonesia rose to 80 on Saturday, as some 140,000 people returned to their sodden homes in the capital to clear away piles of mud and rancid debris.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says the devastation in Indonesia's Aceh is the worst he has ever seen.
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President George W. Bush declared disaster areas in Oklahoma on Sunday, making federal aid available to people and businesses hurt by weeks of severe storms, flooding and tornadoes.
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Victims of a devastating &quot;mud volcano&quot; in Indonesia complained Wednesday that a fresh compensation scheme thrashed out by the president during a visit to the disaster area in East Java was not enough.