Manila Appeals for Storm Relief; Weather Improves
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REAL, Philippines  - The Philippines put the toll  at more than 1,000 dead or missing in four storms in two weeks  but, even with a break in the weather on Saturday, relief  supplies were running short and fears of disease were  spreading.
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Real - Philippine rescuers were on Friday digging through the rubble of a collapsed building for more survivors, as the number of dead and missing from two storms, which lashed the country rose to nearly 1 600.
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REAL, Philippines  - Philippine rescuers resumed  digging at dawn on Friday, hoping to find more survivors after  four were pulled from a building that collapsed 11 days ago  during a fierce storm.
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Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 100 people, most buried alive under tonnes of debris, officials said.
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Rescuers have struggled to reach three Philippine towns devastated by landslides and floods that killed at least 327 people as a powerful typhoon stayed on course to hit the same area within 48 hours.
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - At least 24 people are dead and dozens are missing after a tropical storm pounded the central Philippines with heavy rains and high waves over the weekend.
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MANILA, 1 December 2004 - Over 350 people were reported killed and officials were still counting after a storm unleashed landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines yesterday.
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The Philippines begins to clean up after a powerful typhoon, days after a storm killed more than 400 people.
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INFANTA, Philippines : US marines have begun arriving in the Philippines to help the relief effort from storms that have left over 1,500 people dead or missing, a US military spokesman said.
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The death toll from a powerful typhoon that cut across the northern Philippines rose to at least 28 with dozens of people missing in floods and landslides as schools and offices in Manila remained closed for a second day Friday.
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REAL, Philippines, Dec. 3 -- Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up the sick and injured on Friday as flash floods began to recede in the northern Philippines.
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US marines have begun arriving in the Philippines to help the relief effort from storms that have left over 1,500 people dead or missing, a US military spokesman said.
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Officials in the Philippines have called for international aid to help more than half a million people hit by devastating back-to-back storms.
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REAL, Philippines -- Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared yesterday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 640 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.
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MAUBAN, Philippines  - Rescuers dug with their  bare hands on Wednesday to find survivors from landslides and  floods that killed up to 500 people in a part of the northern  Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon over the next 48 hours.
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Fresh rains and flooding have killed up to 16 people in the Philippines as a tropical storm worsened the death toll and damage from a weekend typhoon.
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Officials could only apologize Monday when asked about the prospects of finding survivors in the towns and villages swamped by mudslides from devastating Typhoon Durian, which has killed an estimated 1,000 people in the Philippines.