Five Die in Violent Storms in France
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Violent storms lashed through northern and eastern France on Friday, killing five people and forcing officials to close a Christmas market and Paris tourist attractions, such as an ice-skating rink on the Eiffel Tower.
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SIX people died Friday when hurricane-strength winds lashed Paris and large areas of northern and eastern France, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and disrupting air, rail and road traffic.
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A powerful tropical storm battered Japan, killing five people and injuring 52 as it whipped up waves and winds that damaged homes, downed electrical lines and forced thousands to evacuate to shelters.
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Typhoon Chaba tore across southwestern  Japan Monday, killing at least five people and knocking out  electricity for thousands as it swirled its way north, dumping  heavy rain and whipping up huge seas.
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At least eight people have been killed and at least 54 others injured in a road accident in southwestern France. Authorities say a Spanish bus, a minivan, and at least two cars were involved in the pre-dawn
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Powerful winds and heavy rain swept across northern Europe from Ireland to Russia over the weekend, leaving at least 15 dead by yesterday, inundating areas of Britain and disrupting air and sea transport.
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Heavy rain across China has killed  another five people and prevented half a million residents  displaced by a swollen river for days from returning home,  state media said on Tuesday.
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Ten people were killed and five others were missing today as a powerful typhoon lashed southern Japan with strong winds and heavy rains, causing deadly mudslides and prompting the evacuation of thousands of homes.
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Hurricane Jeanne caused at least five deaths, making landfall almost exactly where Frances did over Labor Day weekend.
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A strong typhoon swept toward southwestern Japan with fierce winds and heavy rains Sunday, leaving at least five people dead or missing and injuring more than 100.
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Floods killed five people in Texas including a five-year-old girl and her grandmother who were swept away after torrential rain lashed the north of the state, local media reported.
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Typhoon Chaba tore across southwestern Japan Monday, killing at least five people and knocking out electricity for thousands as it swirled its way north, dumping heavy rain and whipping up huge seas.
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France PARIS -- A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds lashed northern France yesterday, killing at least six people and forcing officials to close the Eiffel Tower. A 61-year-old woman died when her car was crushed by a tree, and another person was decapitated by flying sheet metal, police said. Paris City Hall ordered the Eiffel Tower closed, as well as ...
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Much of Europe was alternately baked and drenched as the heatwave, believed to have taken more than 30 lives in the past week, continued and storms, sometimes fierce, erupted.
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Wild storms lashed eastern Australia again Saturday as authorities confirmed two deaths and expressed grave fears for a family of five whose car was washed away when raging waters cut a highway.
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French utilities struggle to restore power after a hurricane that killed six people and thousands without power.
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At least 55 people were killed and over 300 injured in the worst-ever storm that lashed Japan in more than a decade triggering flash floods and mudslides before it moved to the east into the Pacific Ocean this morning.