Nearly 340 people killed as second storm in a week slams eastern ...
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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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The most powerful typhoon to hit eastern Japan in a decade has headed out to sea after pummelling Tokyo, leaving two dead, snarling transport on a long holiday weekend and forcing thousands in the countryside to evacuate.
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Authorities in Pakistan and India prepared for more severe weather on Monday, evacuating people from low-lying areas, after weekend storms and flooding killed more than 350 people across the region.
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At least 43 people have died and more than a million have fled their homes as a result of torrential rains lashing parts of India and Bangladesh, officials said.
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At least 18 people are killed and many more injured in severe storms across the southern US.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Waves two-stories high and torrential rains flooded eastern Jamaica and punishing winds knocked down trees and power lines as Hurricane Ivan slammed coastal areas late Friday night, heading for a direct hit on the island. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Waves two-stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore Friday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37...
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Dozens of people were killed in floods throughout Haiti after tropical storm Jeanne lashed the Caribbean nation during the weekend.
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At least 79 people have been killed and 74 are missing in some of the worst storms southwest China has seen in many years. Disaster relief officials said on Monday that at least 55 were killed and 47 were
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Waves two stories high crashed to shore Friday, flooding homes and washing away roads on Jamaica&#39;s eastern shore as Hurricane Ivan&#39;s ferocious winds and rains began
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France and Italy reported new victims of a heatwave that has engulfed Europe for the last two weeks, bringing the number of deaths to more than 80 people, as storms also took their toll.
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Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The preliminary toll from the last typhoon that hit the eastern Philippines was almost 500 dead and 350 missing.
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Freak storms packing howling winds and heavy rain that lashed Britain and France this week were set to continue after already causing significant destruction and the deaths of at least four people.
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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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Waves two-stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore Friday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Waves two stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore yesterday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to at least 33.
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Relief agencies battled bad weather to deliver supplies into storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the toll of dead and missing from two storms in one week exceeded 1,400, officials said.